Topics covered: Forces that keep us asleep vs. forces that wake us up; Helping my teen who lives at home and has a child to take proper responsibility for his life; Asking questions about the spiritual life; Quoting the teacher when talking with others; Ascension and the 5th dimension; Hiding pain from ourselves; Why do so few people find the path; Watching myself in self-observation vs. being...

Topics covered: The mind can only approach the meaning of something through thoughts about it; You cannot separate yourself from life without suffering for that separation. We are punished by a nature that is never satisfied with where it is; When you really know the meaning of something, you don't have to look for it.

There is something in us that actually enjoys feeling stressed. We must discover that we live with an opposing self. We can catch moments of opposition by coming back to ourselves.

Topics explored in this dialogue: There is no difference in the way men and women suffer, just differences in what we suffer over; We have false ideas about what our life is about and for, which results in a lot of fighting with life that produces constant pain; The root cause of fear, anxiety, doubt has to do with valuing ourselves according to how others see us...

Classroom Talk: 7/27/2003 - Learning to prefer the taste of Silent Wholeness over the taste of food, even while we are taking our meal, is but one of the gifts of God's daily bread: A trans-substantial matter that not only nourishes body and soul, but that always leaves us feeling lighter regardless of how much grace is taken in.

No single substance -- whether physical, mental, or emotional -- creates an addiction, let alone the pain and conflict inherent in its corresponding dependency; rather dependency is the birthplace of all false solutions...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 12, 2018. What else are the untold number of lies -- "large and small" -- that we tell ourselves, or others, if not a trap we build in the now... only to be caught in it later?...

Gluttony -- of any shape or form -- is not just the unbridled pursuit and inevitable surrender of oneself over to some physical pleasure, however embraced. Far from it: gluttony is the unappeasable longing of an unconscious nature whose favorite "food" -- when all is said and done -- is pain. How so? See it for yourself: the more this divided nature gives itself what it wants -- including pain...

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about why human beings are so addicted to stress and tension, and why it is so important for us to understand that something within us actually enjoys being anxious.

Topics covered: The relationship between passion and sexuality; Uncontrollable epileptic seizures and level of self; Christ overturning the tables in the Temple; What to do as my relationship falls apart; What are thoughts; Giving sincere apologies; Why life at all; Feeling jerked around like a puppet on a string; What is the devil; Is God in me; Attracting people and events that prevent us fr...

In this special Saturday discussion Guy answers GuyFinleyNow member questions. Topics include: How can a person new to this work avoid getting discouraged over a seeming lack of progress; Is physical illness connected to a greater sensitivity to negative energies; Is it possible to remain aware of this very moment; Do we have karmic debts; Why don't I attract higher people into my life; Is it...

Topics covered: Everything you do is geared towards getting attention; Personality has to find something to be apart from; There is a ceaseless emptiness in us; We need to make a leap into an unknown awareness; Awareness joins all living things, and that field is the "I" of nature; Only the unknower can enter into the unknown; Thought cannot deliver you to spirit; Self-correction is in the awa...