Part 1: We are created with the capacity to choose the worlds we are aware of, and with which we wish to commune; to use our powers of reason to not just realize the existence of more timeless domains, but to see the futility of spending time in pursuit of those powers and pleasures that make a level of existence that must pass -- passable -- for a time. Part 2: Better to have a small taste o...

Confusion is the distance between what you're being shown about yourself and your refusal to see the same.

Remastered Classic Talk: 9/02/15 - We are convinced that if there's anything lacking in us, then the answer must be to acquire it, as has always been our go-to solution when suffering over some discontent. But as long as our hope for contentment is remanded over to a search for something outside of ourselves, we will never see the fact that this discontent is inseparable from our present level of self, let alone come to understand that the only solution for it rests therein... In the last place we would think to search for it.

Classroom Talk: 05/25/2025 - It’s not by accident that we reach interim points of mounting resistance in our work to be free, any more than we accidentally meet the challenge of some uncertain, unstable ground that waits to be gained the nearer we come to the summit of a mountain.

Classroom Talk: 10/13/2021 - Only consistent, persistent inner-work can lead us to the threshold of the "Truth that sets us free." And yet, the following is equally true: the unassailable liberation we seek will continue to elude us until every effort to know the truth of ourselves -- by thinking about ourselves -- has proven useless.

The rougher the seas he agrees to cross, the better the sailor he becomes.

Just because 'I' comes before 'U' in the alphabet doesn't mean it reflects the true order of things.

Real success is not measured by what we take from life, for whatever we win from the world is subject to the whim of its winds -- which means even the greatest of such victories is limited... but there is a success that cannot be spoiled by the passage of time.

Student Talks: 12/2/2022 - Key Lesson: Reactions are not actions, any more than an echo is the cause of its own sound... which means: we cannot escape moments we resist, any more than it's possible to outrun our own shadow.

Student Talks: 04/04/2025 - No one wins freedom who hasn't first realized the invisible relationship between resistance and revelation, and how one cannot appear without the other; wherein to see that they secretly serve one another, is to put both in your service.

As we all know, there are trying times when states of discouragement literally dog us -- following us around as if they're waiting for us to fall down, never to rise again. On these days, our own lackluster emotions are hounded by thoughts barking at us that nothing is right with our lives. Sound familiar? On these same days, even our smallest wish to part ways with these painful states gets p...

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how we must learn what it means to wait on God if we wish to be connected to more than just the temporary sensations of passing time.