Classroom Talk: 2/12/2003 - The endless emotional sensations that enter into -- and that temporarily possess the heart -- are not the Truth of the heart any more than the sun's baking heat, or a winter's freezing sleet, are the same as the sky they fill as they pass their way through it.

We are busier and busier chasing down our moment in the sun, and have forgotten what it means to look up and feel thanks for the light that makes our life possible. It is impossible to rush, to want to feel "important," and to appreciate life at the...

Like ripples in a pond, all wishes for wholeness take their form and radiate out from one irreplaceable longing: to be one with God's life. To understand this fact, that the true possibility of life - it's perfect power and peace - lies "hidden" in the field of the Presence...

The fruit on the tree of desire is always half bitter -- half sweet, because whatever we long to pick from that tree always comes with the anxiety that we may not be able to reach it.

Talk Summary: In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how we can begin to understand that what we call ""unwanted moments"" are actually life's invitations for us to discover more about our true nature.

Negative self-images are secret self-love in reverse!...

Part 1 The great secret of getting ourselves "unstuck" -- of being empowered to leave behind us those problems that life seems to set before us -- is to understand that before we can learn to walk through whatever stands in our way, we must take the first step of learning to willingly enter into it. Part 2 The importance of working to develop our attention is found in the appearan...

Anticipation is a special kind of awareness where one is united with the spirit of what comes prior to its arrival...

Classroom Talk: 11/26/2003 - It isn't until the ground drops out from beneath us for the hundredth time that we suddenly realize falling down is not our only option. Faintly, but surely, if we will listen, another Law in our own nature calls us to realize its power: we can catch, suspend, and drop our own weighted reactions. And so it goes that we slowly learn to take wing.

Look closely at what a person struggles with in life; the actual nature of what he or she is fighting to possess, protect, or win; to what does he give his time, most of his attention? To what end her plans, the things she pursues and puts first each day? Such is the only real way to measure the true nature of anyone’s character, including our own...

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...

It's impossible to concerned with how others see you...and be true to yourself at the same time.