If we will persist with our wish to be true to ourselves -- to be kind and patient, caring and wise in the face of any set-back -- that bright day dawns for us when we realize this all-empowering truth about ourselves: in this life we each have but one weakness and one strength. Our weakness lies in what we have yet to discover about ourselves; but our strength is the realization that in each...

To pause before we engage some condition within us that compromises our wish to be free -- for fear we are not yet well enough prepared to win that struggle -- is the same as failing to prepare. Many battles are lost like this, before they begin! Our hope lies in challenging our captivity, not in consenting to it. Truth sets those free who will carry its Light into the fight.

The only thing valuable about any fearful state is seeing how worthless it really is and then -- along with the false self that loves to scare itself -- just letting it go.

We must learn to wish for whatever life brings us, for there is no other way to earn the kind of unshakable gratitude that lets us live with grace.

The true measure of one's strength is not determined by his or her drive, assertiveness, or even his willingness to suffer for the sake of some worldly desire. Instead it is found in the degree to which one will agree to enter into the struggle between the indwelling light and darkness.

If our sole wish, as we walk through this life, is to draw nearer to the heart of God, then with each step taken in that remembrance, we arrive.

In this short talk, Guy Finley explains the roles that doubt and faith play in our spiritual work.

Part 1 There is no uncertainty in the pure present moment because in the Now there is no one apart from it to be fearful of anything. Part 2 Negative forces are not a dream, but anyone who is fearful or angry about his life is living out an unnecessary, useless nightmare.

Most of us would never dream of doing the majority of the things we do were it not for the fact that, in the telling moment, anything seems more interesting to do than what we know need to be done.