Only by our deliberate interior work to realize a world within and yet beyond our self do we make this glad discovery: the freedom that we long for is not the product of any experience; it precedes it -- going before both the purpose and product of our plans.
Many of us have come to believe that being a good performer in life is somehow the same as fulfilling the purpose of life. Here's the strange logic behind the self-created misery that follows it: For each successful "performance" we pull off around others or within ourselves, it feels as if we've won, for the moment, what we've imagined will make us whole and happy -- but the drawback here...
In this video, Guy Finley explains that the true role of a teacher is to remind students of their actual condition, which presently is an unconscious state of "spiritual sleep." Authentic spiritual work is a gradual awakening to what we have falsely taken ourselves to be.
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Classroom Talk: 7/31/2024 - The grace of God is immeasurable; it is we who measure all we are given to see - and to be, accordingly; and where, with each conclusion as to the worth of what we're given to see, we steal from ourselves the immeasurable wealth of our own highest possibilities.
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Classroom Talk: 6/23/2024 - The greatest possibility for incarnating the subtle energies required for transformation is best realized in moments of a heightened awareness that, in turn, appears at the same time and place of maximum resistance (to some unwanted moment).
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Classroom Talk: 2/18/2024 - The present moment and our awareness of whatever may be passing into and through it are one consciousness, much in the same way as the Eye of The Beholder shares an awareness of both the mirror, and the object it reflects.
Every great journey begins in faith, not with facts. The great explorers throughout history never had facts about the new worlds they were about to discover before they set out on their journeys. New worlds were discovered because these explorers had faith that they existed. It is through the journeying itself that we find what we really need, not in the collecting and mulling over of intellec...
Nothing we spend our lives struggling to take from this world has the power to grant us the one thing we long to possess above all else: our own true nature.
Learn how to harness the greatest power in the universe -- Love itself -- to have a new and vibrant relationship with every moment -- and every person in your life. * Learn the secret of turning every event and relationship -- even bad ones -- to your advantage * Experience a deep new kind of love that never fails you * Discover the light, bright, and true purpose of your...
Topics covered: Human beings cannot change themselves without the help of something that intervenes between them and their tendencies; If you ignore the celestial laws of life, you do so at your own risk. You can't ignore a true law without becoming anxious; There is no unnecessary suffering that is not born out of a lower order of consciousness believing that it is...
Just as the value of a precious stone is known by how well it reflects back the light that enters into it, so too is the worth of the human heart a reflection of the life it absorbs and transforms, and then gives back to others.