God's actions, the manifestations of His Living Light unfolding before us in the Great Story of Life, are always complete regardless of whatever form they may assume... So that if anything - if any part of our life - appears to be incomplete in any given moment the fault must lie within the quality of our present understanding, and not with the kind of life that God has granted to us.

That we blame anyone or anything for our suffering reveals our blatant refusal to accept responsibility for our present level of consciousness. That we refuse to see this condition indicates an almost complete lack of conscience on our part; this fact is evidenced any time we agree to embrace a feeling of hatred born of resisting those moments in life that simply show us some truth about us...

Every moment that unfolds in life presents us with an invitation to choose either the path of what will better us -- as when we choose conscious kindness over unthinking cruelty -- or a path that will make us more bitter -- as when we unconsciously embrace a resentment instead of working to release it. To be Wise is to choose in favor of the Better Path, even though the bitter one often seems...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 9, 2017. Until we can see that we care more for what "will be" -- even "what was" -- than we do for being in relationship with "what is" -- our heart and mind are the possessions of passing time, which means that so is the false sense of self that appears out of it... only to disappear back into it time and time again.

Part I: Enlightenment is not knowledge of the whole universe, but to live in communion with its perfect design and divine purpose. Part II: To be empowered to act upon what we know is True and Good for us requires being present to ourselves in the moment of being tempted to make choices that have proven themselves to be unproductive or even self-destructive; so that the first step in finding...

Happiness, love, peace, compassion, and contentment are timeless states of being in the Now. In their original principle they are without form, having no beginning or end. These forces of the Living Light exist in themselves and have no cause apart from their celestial source, much as the sun exists apart from the life-giving light that radiates from the surface of its hydrogen heart. But for...

ED: Hello. I'm Dr. Ellen Dickstein and I'm here with inner life author, Guy Finley, to talk about letting go. Guy, some years ago you wrote a bestseller called The Secret of Letting Go that had a tremendous response all over the world, and you've just come out with a new book, Let Go and Live in the Now. There must be a lot of people all over the world who sense that they're hanging on to some...

How can we know in moments of turmoil that "all is well"? We are meant to be in touch with a host of forces that we presently don't have any relationship with, and because of that we're missing an entire aspect of our potentiality as beings. We're used to taking for ourselves whatever our mind imagines...

Part 1 The illusion of Time is that it's a progression, but it is not; (it is) a higher dimension in and through which the will of creation continues to be revealed. Part 2 The Presence Moment never repeats itself, and only the part of us that can be present to the Will of this Timeless Intelligence can share in its newness, know something of its purpose and, as a consequence, app...

Part 1 Until we realize that resistance to any event -- reflected by our immediate negative judgment of it -- is the same as refusing to see the meaning of that event, we will never know the Truth that sets us free; for what else is our experience of any such moment -- that includes the meaning hidden within it -- if not a ceaseless revelation of our present nature, and what it values abo...

How many of us have had moments in our lives where we have tried to escape certain qualities of ourselves by doing different things, only to find ourselves unable to escape the condition, unable to escape our present nature, so that finally the day comes where there's no escaping it, but there's no living with it either? And in the moment, we can no longer resist our own character based on the assumption that we ought not be that kind of human being.

The sudden onset of any painful confusion has a single source: it is the dark and negative effect of a mind unaware of its own contradictions. For instance, how can there be any conflict -- or confusion -- over what any moment wants to show us about our present nature, without there being some part of us that refuses the revelation? Learning to be aware of such contradictions (in our own consc...