Student Talks: 05/2/2025 - For us, death – even as we “learn to live” in its fearsome shadow – seems to mark the end of all that we have known; a looming “last show” when the theatre will be closed, and the final curtain drawn. But, there is another kind of death; and it is the end of fear: rebirth realized in the voluntary sacrifice, and concurrent death of the “knower”.

Classroom Talk: 05/31/2026 - Participating in the revelation of creation is the entrance into the realization of God’s life, paid for by the sacrifice of the lower self.

Student Talks: 04/03/2026 - By itself, no thought has the power to trouble us; its authority over us is equal to the extent we are deceived into identifying with its particular, temporary character.

Any thought that “promises” to rescue you, or to otherwise deliver you to some new delight deceives you twice. First, that it has the power to lift you above what’s dragging you down; and secondly, more significantly, that there is a “you” that needs being saved from some dire straight, or that can be actually be enlarged by changing circumstance.

Seeking to comfort ourselves -- by clinging to the hope of a better time to come -- is like a hungry man standing outside a restaurant, looking in through the window, and trying to fill his empty stomach by watching other people eat.

Our every action is a prayer, for our deeds are seeds and by them we plant the world we will walk through tomorrow.

With the mind we can learn math, medicine, even creative arts, but the peace that is the heart of a quiet mind cannot be learned.

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how authentic silence is the natural fruit of a mind that has seen the futility of its own efforts to silence itself.

Topics covered: Pain always finds the blame. Pain looks for something to blame outside of the consciousness that cannot escape from itself; We are predisposed to blaming the experience for the pain, instead of seeing that the reaction to the experience IS the experience; "I don't deserve this" is the general feeling behind any reaction that blames the experience for the pain that you are in.

There isn't a thought large enough to hold what the heart knows without thinking.