Guy Finley explains that everything you need to succeed and to change the kind of human being you are is already provided for you.

Perfection of the opposites can never be achieved through their succession, but demands their simultaneity.

We can't change others -- or, for that matter, the purpose of any given moment as it unfolds -- but we can work to place one less demand on both...

There is a proportionate and direct relationship between the degree of an inconsolable pain -- some form of suffering that’s pretty much our daily companion -- and our misunderstanding the true purpose of why we have been given a life.

Resistance to any negative reaction accelerates it.

Topics covered: The value of personal prayer; How do we stay present; Are disturbances the same as sensations; How do I handle a confrontational situation; I feel inadequate to overcome my negative states; What is undivided awareness; Is it true that any sense of 'I' is false; Why was I born; I've noticed that past memories don't bother me as much as they used to; Interpretation of Christ's wo...

Everything that happens to us does so for the one purpose of revealing to us something of our present nature.

The ultimate consumption of the soul by love is the purpose of a person's aspiring work -- that there would no longer be an individual there feeling this love, it would just be perfect love, perfect gratitude, perfect appreciation.

Classroom Talk: 5/15/2002 - When our love of the Truth begins to outweigh the fear in us of what we realize is True about us, it's not so much that we have found the path to freedom as it is that we have begun to realize that our own True Nature in God is already free.

 

Student Talks: 11/12/2021 - Key Lesson: We must make -- and keep -- a special place within us for what we love; otherwise, our heart becomes an overnight motel filled with the visitations of a thousand fickle lovers... not one of which is capable of loving anything other than itself.

Classroom Talk: 8/12/2020 - As sure as all of our higher possibilities are seeded into each moment of our time on earth, so does the realization of their fulfillment also dwell in us -- right now -- only in another order of consciousness that only awaits our awakening... and entrance into it.

Classroom Talk: 5/6/2020 - We cannot keep trying to "delight" ourselves, and develop ourselves -- spiritually -- at the same time, any more than we can have our cake and eat it too. But once we understand that the work of developing our soul is the only pleasure that never turns into some painful opposite... then our life becomes delightful...