Classroom Talk: 8/24/2003 - Trying to escape the painful effects of spiritual ignorance is like hoping to lose your shadow by running away from the sun.
Topic: Your Part in Preparing a Place for the Divine (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 11/26/25)
Guy Finley explains how everything exists to bring you into relationship with stillness, from out of which comes real contentment and gratitude.
Student Talks: 3/14/2025 - We can't change others – or, for that matter, the purpose of any given moment as it unfolds – but we can work to place one less demand on both. Only in this action can we hope to find the freedom for which we seek, because the only thing that imprisons us – in the end – is our resistance to whatever runs against our deeply seated demands.
Student Talks: 10/27/2023 - Key Lesson: Any time the mind makes a "package" out of some unwanted moment -- wrapping its reaction (to it) in familiar troubled thoughts, and negative feelings -- it does so at the cost of exchanging a priceless gift it's been given... in favor of giving itself another painful experience (of itself) that it doesn't know it's created for itself!
Student Talks: 6/11/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Only when, and as the Divine gives the aspirant what it is that his or her heart really longs for, does he realize that it would have been impossible for him to imagine, let alone ask for what he now begins to receive. Part 2: There is no "out there"... out there, as whatever appears to be "out there" has no...
Topics Covered: All true teachings show us that we are on this planet as human beings for a purpose that is already laid out for us; When you do not know what to do with your own life, it is almost guaranteed that someone will show up to tell you; Either our lives bring us into relationship with something broader or we're wasting our time with what we call "our business"...
Every moment presents you with a choice: to work to be present or zone out into psychic sleep; to make that cruel remark or see the state in you that wants to make it; to sink into self-pity or stop thinking about yourself and keep your attention in the present moment. The choice you make is critical to creating your destiny. That's why it's so important to learn the secrets reveale...
Classroom Talk: 7/30/2003 - Until we realize the impossibility of finding permanent happiness in impermanent thoughts and feelings, the only thing that will ever change about our lives are those things that we sit and wish hadn't changed.
Classroom Talk: 9/18/2002 - It may be fairly said that one has only found his True Place in life -- a place undiminished by time, unassailable by tide -- when he knows this place resides in the very center of his heart and seeks it no place else.
Student Talks: 10/17/2025 - There is no painful state of psychological resistance to any given moment that isn’t preceded by some form of unseen demand that we have brought with us into that moment.
Without you lending them an "ear," the voices running through your head would be no harder for you to bear than is a breeze for the branches of a tree through which they pass without being hindered.