Hoping to help someone who loves to be negative see the harm of being identified with dark states is like...trying to teach a bat to appreciate sunlight, or a mud hen to preen in fresh clean waters.

It is virtually impossible to consciously bear the unpleasant manifestation of any other human being until we have awakened to the same manifestation in ourselves, and learned to consciously suffer it. In other words, we can only bear in someone else what we have learned to bear in ourselves... which means none can be truly compassionate until we know what it means to suffer ourselves for the...

Learn the hard lessons and watch your life become easier... Conditions reveal our character, just as our character helps to create the conditions that reveal it in turn. This means that struggling to change some unwanted condition without first addressing the character within you that it reflects, is like blaming the mirror for what you don't like seeing in it. Learning to embrace the truth...

Perhaps the most deceptive of all the false gods is the one who condemns you for being you.

We serve the world when – for the sake of a Greater Good – we struggle to rise above negative states. We serve the world when we refuse to blame others for our negativity and – for the sake of a Greater Good – sacrifice our lower nature that would rather see others suffer than have to suffer itself. We serve the world when our first work is to place the greater Good a...

Topics covered:  You can't know with your mind what is calling you to make the interior journey that saints and sages have spoken about; "Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there." -- Jalal al-Din Rumi -- "For he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." -- New Testament -- These two passages are essentially saying the same thing; Part of the interior journey is to enter into another order of being that allows for the opposites to pass through its field of awareness, but is never defined by those opposites.

Guy Finley explains that real freedom is not found through obtaining powers or possessions, but in understanding the "wanting" nature within us that feels a captive of anything that interferes with what it wants.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of July 3, 2017. Being renewed by Life, and beginning your life all over again are one and the same interior action: it starts with becoming aware of, and then bringing a conscious end to all lingering relationships you may have with old thoughts and feelings that want you to keep seeing your life through their eyes.

Part 1 Unseen by those who feel empty, resisted by those always in a rush, feared by those who resist change, is this inescapable spiritual fact concerning emptiness, anxiety, or fear: our lives are full of what we fill them with! Part 2 When it comes to desires, they can either be a part of your world, serving as intended or, you can be a servant of their world, indentured to time, and des...

Guy Finley explains why it would be wise to become highly suspicious of the parts of ourselves that endlessly seek the approval of other people.

It is the abiding of nature of Love to do, as it is bid; so if what you love turns around and bites you...don't blame Love; blame the bidder.

You possess a potential power that is superior to any difficulty that life may ever present. This immense inner capability enables anyone who will claim it to instantly rise above his challenger. It makes no difference what form the challenge may assume or how huge it looms. This latent power of yours can render it harmless and ultimately make it disappear. This friendly force that can turn y...