Until we can be aware of -- present to -- the fact that the love of the Divine never leaves us -- even when we're full of darkness -- we can never really understand the appearance and purpose of a negative state, let alone how it's possible to die to it, and to ourselves as well.

Classroom Talk: 3/21/2003 - Until each of us realizes that Individual and Spiritual part of ourselves by whose Light we know it is enough just to be who and what we are -- that shows us everything we will ever need to be quietly content is already provided for us -- not only will the personal peace for which we long keep slipping from our grasp, but our world will continue to find that Real Peace remains just beyond its reach.

Student Talks: 2/24/2023 - Key Lesson: My most contented hours are those filled with emptiness; and I regret -- as comes their appointed time -- having to fill these precious moments with what is little more than the mandatory, but mostly empty business of this world: attending to all of the virtually endless forms that are, at best, shadows of the real... at worst, vanities.

Topics covered: A necessary realization along the upward path is that there are parts of you that do not want you to realize the truth of yourself; Although not really aware of it, the question of "Who am I" sits behind every pursuit, both worldly and spiritually; We are told that we are missing something, believe in the absolute truth of that idea, and then search for what we are told to pursue...

In this short audio clip, Guy Finley talks about some of the characteristics of free will -- the capacity to choose what we love -- and the higher kind of responsibility that comes with that gift.

Here is the long and short of a very simple, but powerful spiritual truth: it is impossible to measure one's self without using both ends of the ruler....

It's not some task before me that I suffer, neither is it one behind me, for its loss; rather, what I suffer is the Cross of Being whose weight is only as great as my misunderstanding of its purpose in the birth of my soul, and in the forthcoming Conscious Humanity whose perfection it heralds.

Unless heart, head, and hand are all in the same place at the same time, working as one, then whatever is done is done half-heartedly, without thoughtfulness, and in half-measures. The only way that heart, head, and hand can be all together at once is when Love unites them in a single purpose.

Classroom Talk: 1/12/2003 - The mastery of anything, including ourselves, begins with the faith that we are not here on earth to be perfected according to an image we hold of ourselves, but rather to allow Perfection to work its way upon us...So that only the awareness of something Greater than ourselves can draw us into a Greatness beyond ourselves, if we will it so.

Letting Go author Guy Finley explains the esoteric meaning of the well-known passage from scripture "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." The kingdom of heaven is not a destination, it is a place in your own consciousness that is revealed moment to moment within you. As you enter into this timeless, undivided space...

In this answer to a webinar attendee's question, Guy explains that trying to prepare and rehearse what we are going to say or do in a moment is the same as living in fear of the moment. Instead what we need to do is make the intention to see everything that we can so that we can leave those moments as wiser, more awake human beings.