Hoping to help someone who loves to be negative see the harm of being identified with dark states is like...trying to teach a bat to appreciate sunlight, or a mud hen to preen in fresh clean waters.

What happens in the moment where life throws something at you, or nothing goes as you had planned? You know what happens. Instant negativity! Unhappiness over what is unwanted ruins the day. Why? Because now you're resisting the event, wanting nothing to do with it. And how many possibilities do you have in such moments when you resist life like this? None... except to grow more and more n...

No problem in life is ever any bigger than what the sleeping mind makes of it in order to enlarge a false sense of self.

If you wish to "love thy God with all thy heart, soul, and mind," then learn to look at your life – moment to moment -- with all thy heart, soul, and mind.

If you wish to "love thy God with all thy heart, soul, and mind," then learn to look at your life -- moment to moment -- with all thy heart, soul, and mind.

We are created not just to be able to see into the mind of God, but to see and know that the mind of God lives within us. Gradually, little by little, we can awaken to the Reality that the true cosmology is our own consciousness. In Reality, nothing exists outside of us that does not already live within us. God sowed within each and every human being the potential for everything within this c...

Joan Herrmann and Guy Finley discuss the secret to effecting real change in our lives.

Topics explored in this dialogue: You can't have creation and rebirth without suffering; Authentic spiritual evolution is a creative process of integration, and integration requires revelation; Asking to see more about a painful situation is the same as asking how you can let it go; We have a "candling" facility -- conscious awareness -- which is meant to see into every thought and feeling we...

Part 1 The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, and through hard work, persistence, and faith turning whatever they touch into gold. Part 2 No matter the circumstance, there is always time enough to be yourself and -- after all is said and done -- what else is there that's worth being?...

The potential power of any healing idea is only as great as we are willing to submit ourselves to the light of its Truth.

To rise above our present level of self, we must outgrow its unseen limitation. To outgrow any limitation, we must become conscious of its nature. To become aware of any unconscious nature in us, we must learn how to impersonally witness it. To impersonally witness a lower level of self is to see it through a higher order of being... a ceaseless action whose realization is the same as the Trut...

Real spiritual strength is realized, slowly, by daring to drop any self-blinding negative states that we have allowed to define us.