Classroom Talk: 4/6/2005 - Looking to negative thoughts, or dark emotional states, for the power to help you out of some unwanted moment in life, is like hoping that your own shadow -- cast by the sun setting behind you -- can guide you out of a desert in which you have become lost!

Student Talks: 7/28/2023 - Key Lesson: A true search for the beginning of things must, invariably, lead to the end of things; but the end of things is not the end of the awareness of them.

If you ever really want to know whether or not you're in a 'right place' for yourself -- or for any others around you -- just go still; be as inwardly silent as you can for a moment or two, and the truth will be made clear to you.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 2, 2016. Allowing your mind to dwell on any unwanted moment -- anticipating that the more thought you give to finding a solution to that pain -- the sooner you'll be set free from it -- is like hoping to escape a prison cell by walking into it and locking the door behind you.

Our attention connects us to life; it establishes our relationships with all that unfolds around and within us.

Topics covered:  Nobody ever believes that they are part of the problem; Why does the possibility of changing seem to become more elusive the older that we get?; There is a possibility of perfection that has nothing to do with thought, but we spend most of our lives lost in thought about how we can achieve an imagined perfection in a time to come.

Classroom Talk: 12/10/2021 - What is Timeless hides within, and just behind the illusion of time.

Guy Finley explains in this brief talk that the wish to run away from psychological pain prevents us from being the true explorers of our lives that we are meant to be.

The real reason for our impatience is not the condition upon which we blame it: impatience -- along with its dark fraternal twin, frustration -- is born of our refusal to realize some present limitation and to remain conscious of it until it can be outgrown and transformed.

Classroom Talk: 2/15/2023 - Intention without conviction is like a tree with shallow roots; it is easily up-ended, and ends up bearing no fruit.

Classroom Talk: 5/17/2020 - Here's a glimpse of a higher level of self-knowledge that opens the door to the possibility of a karma-free life: Nothing moves that everything doesn't; so that if we learn to move with life itself, Life will take care of itself… and therein is our innocence, and our freedom guaranteed.

Our experience of each moment -- for its pleasure or pain, peace or trouble -- is a direct reflection of what we are in relationship with in the present.