One of the most powerful forces in the universe available to human beings is also one of the least understood and appreciated. This powerful force is silence. The secret strength found in silence is as practical in daily life as is its true character life-changing. You can actually possess, and reap the benefits from, a quiet mind. When you want to directly enjoy the sunshine, you must go out...

Hatred, violence, finger-pointing, and just plain suffering seem rampant these days, with religious belief systems often at the core. Wouldn't a true Christian or a true Muslim, or any other believer in God for that matter, be less self-serving and more kind and compassionate towards others, with the highest prayer being for the good of all? How is it that acts of darkness and pain directed...

Topics covered: What is inspiration and are there different ways to use it; How can these teachings be applied to art; What is the difference between denial of a problem and letting go of it; How can I better discern practical, necessary thought from unconscious, hurtful thought; How do we drop a disturbance without resisting it; Some of my passions are not supported by friends and family; Are...

Being myself is what finally happens when every last effort to know myself by thinking about myself has proven useless.

Every person knows what it feels like to be carried off by an anxious state, so you decide: when some anxiety comes along and takes over your life, are you an awake, inwardly centered person or are you an unconscious, outwardly driven man or woman? Which are you? That you're outwardly directed is pretty obvious. Why? Because that anxious state could not exist without your false belief that who...

Let me tell you a little story. An aspirant, someone who wanted to make the discoveries that you and I are interested in, went to the master that she was working with, and wanted to know why it was that her transformation machine -- which was designed to turn lead into gold -- wasn't working the way it was when she saw her master use it. She says to him, "Look. I know it's built the same way. It's got the same parts. What's wrong?...

Hatred, violence, finger-pointing, and just plain suffering seem rampant these days, with religious belief systems often at the core. Wouldn't a true Christian or a true Muslim, or any other believer in God for that matter, be less self-serving and more kind and compassionate towards others, with the highest prayer being for the good of all? How is it that acts of darkness and pain directed...

As we awaken, one thing becomes clear about our suffering, and our endless struggle to bring it to an end: by ourselves we cannot complete ourselves, anymore than a puzzle has the power to assemble itself. So that whatever we're tempted to do, plan, or become to make ourselves whole must belong to a lower level of self that seeks what it does to avoid seeing its own incomplete nature. There is...

ED: Hi. I'm Dr. Ellen Dickstein, and I'm here with bestselling inner life author, Guy Finley. Guy, I thought that today we would talk about the present moment. It's becoming more and more popular these days for people to talk about living in the present moment, but you've been talking about this for 25 years, so let's start at the beginning: Why is the present moment so important? GF: If we...

Part 1: Confusion is the distance between what real life is showing you about yourself, and your refusal to see the same. Part 2: To realize the thought nature is powerless to resolve the incomplete experiences of life that it creates in the first place releases you from the illusion that by revisiting those same moments -- with thought as your guide -- that you can escape the confusion and co...

This moment -- now -- is the timeless ground, seed, and fulfillment of all that is possible for us to be; to discover its riches is the first step in realizing, and then reclaiming our True Self.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 28, 2013. In taking thought, always thinking about what one must do, or have... one never stops asking to "become." But, in remaining awake -- aware of one's thoughts, instead of driven by them -- one asks, "to be"... and this living prayer is always answered.