This is one of those special books that come around only once in a lifetime. Each page of this spiritual classic sparkles with self-empowering insights, encouraging ideas, and the all-but-forgotten Higher Principles that throw open the doors to the riches of your True Self. Just as bridges must be built between cultures and countries, so too must bridges be built to span the distance between...
What do we have to do to change the balance sheet of our lives so that for every measure of impatience and intolerance there may be at least an equivalent sum of compassion and consideration? With few exceptions, the usual focus of our attention and interactions with others is centered on our self and the fulfillment of its desires. The mindset of this lower consciousness...
A special kind of wisdom has been passed down through the centuries, generation to generation, for one exalted end -- the education of the soul. Thus have willing seekers always been given the means to fulfill the true and higher purpose of their lives. The specially selected talks in Guy Finley's audio program, Education of the Soul, integrate key principles from...
How can I practice becoming more aware of myself and will that awareness keep me from getting into trouble? Will it make me more successful in life? I've tried to become more and more aware of myself, which has resulted in a realization that I am deeply asleep! I am beginning to see that I can't possibly have any "willpower" in this state of psychic sleep. Now what? Can you tell me, in a nuts...
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Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 3, 2018. It is a strange characteristic of most human beings that we would rather feel anxious and strained about things over which we have no power, than to do the one thing actually in our power -- for whose conscious practice we would know the very peace we claim to be seeking. And that is: to ground our attention in the fact of the momen...
Imagine for a moment what your life might be like if you never again were to pick up a complaining thought or feeling. Think of how your days would flow without carrying the additional weight of those inner voices always telling you, "I'm too tired," or "This is too much for me!" The weight of the world would be replaced by a new sense of freedom. Fresh, new energies would flow. If this is th...
Are you beginning to lose hope that you'll ever see any real change in your life? That you'll ever know a lasting difference? How many times have you made resolutions, plans, affirmations - thinking this time you've got it; now you have the right combination to blast you out of the rut? It's something we all say. ""This time it's going to be different..."" We'll be nicer to people. We'll...
Part 1 Dying to one's self, which is one and the same as spiritual rebirth, is not attained by an imagined grace wherein -- by some "miracle" -- we call ourselves "reborn;" no, resurrection happens, moment by moment, when we marry our willingness to witness what is revealed about us with a celestial Awareness by whose Light alone are we made self-aware. Then... "It is done." **Part 2...
The greatest, most abundant resource on planet Earth is also its least understood and utilized. Its unlimited supply is found virtually everywhere, anytime, and under all circumstances, even though few recognize its real value. What is this most precious collective resource? It is our relationships. Consider these truths: It is within relationships that we grow as individuals in everything...
No seed -- whether a kernel of corn, or a special talent -- can prove itself more valuable than the sweat it takes to sow it -- cultivate & nourish it -- until it offers up its latent Good.
For every kind or charitable thought, feeling, or action expressed in my life, there must be a hundred that are impatient, intolerant, or judgmental. How can I work to change the balance sheet in my relationships with others and begin living out the kind of life I know I'm meant to express?...
Self-observation is the key to a higher order of awareness; it is how we learn to become inwardly vigilant to our own thoughts and feelings, even as they pass through us. When we can observe ourselves in this new way, our higher nature naturally prevails over any troubling thoughts or feelings that want to drag us down into their lower world...