Without our unconscious consent, regardless of what we may have done against others, or ourselves, the past is powerless to punish us in the present moment.

The true present moment is a point of Light out of whose silent awareness Real Life is ever emerging, even as it returns back into it.

The present moment and our awareness of whatever may be passing into and through it are one consciousness...

ED: Hello. I'm Dr. Ellen Dickstein, and I'm here with best-selling inner life author, Guy Finley. Today we're going to talk about making a fresh start in life. Guy, most of us have made drastic changes trying to make a fresh start in life, and yet no matter what we do, we always end up feeling the same way. The outer conditions may be different, but inside we're still the same. So we know tha...

Without our unconscious consent, regardless of what we may have done against others, or ourselves, the past is powerless to punish us in the present moment.

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how painful tension persists because we are relying on something outside of ourselves to tell us who we are.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 14, 2016. The inevitable sense of emptiness that eventually nips at the heels of most men and women is the sudden realization that in spite of having 'banked' a billion self-stimulating sensations -- even when all have been added up -- they still amount to nothing.

Even our most difficult moments in life soon prove themselves to be the seed of a new, and higher level of being... but only when -- and as -- we're willing to receive whatever these same moments have come to show us about our present level of consciousness.

Untouched, uncorrupted by what once was, and yet unfolding from it; as does a tender new flower from its stem; comes forth the ever-present moment. The future, unknown, rests within what is; but the more this story is told; toiled over, and overlaid by a mind unseeing the way it spins its own captivity; the more imperfect becomes the perfect present, a prison of the...

The only world not in conflict with constant change is the present moment whose timeless nature is the kingdom of all possible changes...

The wish and the work to be present -- to live in the Presence moment -- is the upper path. The “steps” alternate between complementary discoveries: first seeing within ourselves where and how we fall spiritually asleep...

Here is one of the great spiritual mysteries of all time. Freedom is either found within one's suffering or not at all; the only thing one escapes who runs from his or her pain is the possibility of discovering its purpose and how to transcend it. *** There is no such thing as "later" when it comes to our spiritual life. What we do in the now is the sole seed of our life experience. *** Ju...