Our lives, as they are, are less than half of what they are intended to be. We can recognize that something is clearly missing. Often, even though we come up with: "It's him," "It's her," "It's this," or "It's that" which is clearly missing, it turns out that we may even get these things, and things still seem to be missing in our lives...

No one can take a single step upon the True Road that leads to Real Life without first remembering that he or she is always on a journey that leads in one direction...or another.

Even though we often find ourselves feeling so, in truth... there is no such thing as being powerless. We see how a person who resists life--who hates or fears unwanted changes--becomes the instrument of a power that effectively renders him powerless to do anything but struggle. But we've seen the converse as well...

Classroom Talk: 8/22/2003 - A painful regret is a needless present pain over an experience now past, where a misstep becomes the seed of a misery mistakenly carried forward, instead of a lesson learned and then dropped.

If it weren’t that unwanted "things" come along as they do – reducing us to nothing -- how would we ever realize that already living in us is everything needed to transcend all that we are.

It is impossible to change the relationship we have with the world around us without changing the relationship we have in ourselves, with ourselves.

Topics covered: Suffering happens when something in life challenges a pattern that you don't even know you're a part of; Attention is connection; The sleeping mind is a breeding ground for self-defeat; New action is determined by the new light of a new intelligence...

As an earthly creature we are given over to this world of time to take our part in giving our lives to its purposes. But, as a spiritual creature, we may choose to give ourselves over to a celestial plan--and in giving ourselves up to its timeless reason--come to realize a measure of its eternal existence.

In this video, bestselling inner-life author Guy Finley explains how resisting something is the same as placing your attention on the very thing that you say you don't want.

If we can't give the whole of our attention to someone -- or, for that matter, to any moment -- then we can't listen. If we can't listen, we can't possibly hear the whole story. And if we can't hear the whole story, then how can we ever hope to understand, let alone realize our actual role in it.

Topics covered: Human beings don't understand what or who they are, and, for having failed to understand the purpose of their existence, they have created one for themselves; What is the main misunderstanding about the purpose of existence? That I am owed a living; We are takers - I want, I will, I'll do, I'll get - all of which must come after "I'll be."