Anyone who tries to be free will never find true freedom.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 8, 2014. Part 1: Never fight with life; your struggle is not with what opposes you, but rather with what you have yet to understand about the opposing forces that live within you. Part 2: The wind that fills the sails of a ship is born of a coming storm... As is each tempest the herald of the calm waters that follow its wrath. In this knowle...

Honesty heals; lies hurt. In these four words lives all one needs to know and practice, that is, assuming one wishes to be whole, harmless, loving, and true.

One of the greatest awakenings in this life is to see through the painful illusion that the faster you rush through something -- anything -- the sooner you'll reach a place of peace.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 14, 2016. The basis of real life -- of existence itself -- is exchange; whatever appears or disappears is the momentary expression of this Law. This is why the only thing that we can keep -- that is authentically our own -- is the Divine part of us that not only sees and understands this truth, but that stands in a stillness relative to it, a...

Unseen attachments, negative imagination, and unconscious identification with the body of their conditioned demands has incarnated a kind of dark trinity: a false sense of “self” whose fear we’ve been deceived into believing we must protect at all costs, or otherwise face some terrible consequence.

Classroom Talk: 4/28/2021 - Spiritual wholeness is a living, timeless estate... inseparable from the Divine Light that reveals it in each passing moment; (it is) not a static condition... as in the imagined, painful idea of achieving some imagined sense of permanent personal satisfaction.

Better the whole world should turn against you, because you choose to do what is true, than the whole world approve of you... because you've agreed to do what is false.

The self that knows itself only through thought can never develop beyond the content of itself, anymore than a math equation can suddenly outgrow the pile of figures responsible for its form.

We can spend our lives anxious and fearful over each arrival of some unwanted moment -- trying, in vain, to protect ourselves from it -- or, we can use each similar situation to see the following: resisting any negative reaction is the same as turning a blind eye to the lower level of self responsible for it... a dark nature that wants us to believe "not wanting" something is the same as worki...

In this brief talk, Guy Finley explains that anything that tries to get us to identify with something outside of us is dragging us down, even though it may seem to be pulling us up.

Classroom Talk: 5/24/2020 - Struggling to escape the mind-breaking pain of any past regret is about as useful as hating ourselves for having fallen into a pit of quicksand... Where the more we fight to escape the hold it has over us, the deeper into it we sink.