One sure way to tell if you're negative about something that's happened to you... is when you can't stop thinking about it, reliving some idea that simply won't stop. Any thought about an event past that you can't stop running through your mind... is in a race of its own; it sprints forward trying to cross some imagined finish line where it imagines it will finally rest for having finally outr...

The greatest, and ultimately the most important quality any of us possess is our love for what is True; and part of that truth includes being able to see that we did not seed this rarest of loves into our own heart. But, as long as we are willing to put this love within us -- still in its seedling form -- before all other desires, the same Truth that planted its Love in us will see its fruitio...

What good is the love of Truth without standing up for the freedom it promises to those whom love it? This means that we must attend to, embrace, and then enact what is Light, Right, and True, even in the midst of all that may seem wrong within or around us. Only by daring to bring this intention into the midst of any such dark moment are we given to see -- first hand -- how His unfailing stre...

Here is a great unseen Law: never ask someone to do for you what you haven't first struggled with, mightily, to do for yourself... For in adherence to this Law not only will you be open and willing to admit your present set of limitations, but you will also be forever grateful to whoever steps forward to help you see how to transcend them.

There is only one-way to change who, and what we have been: we must set a conscious intention to observe ourselves... as we are, under any and all circumstances. This means that moment-to-moment, we choose, consciously, to see what's unfolding within us through the 'eyes' of a higher part of us that knows -- even as it enters the fray -- that our freedom begins with ending our identification w...

The psychological weight of any pressing moment is the same as whatever level of importance is assigned to it by an unconscious part of us; this lower level of self looks for any situation where it can add 'a cubit to its stature' by first imagining some unmanageable burden into existence so that then... it can feel itself struggling to carry its own impossible load!...

Guy explains during a recent Online Study Group meeting why this work is predicated upon creating, by our efforts, the inescapable presence of second force. The more we are earnest in our work, the more willing we are to meet what we have to because we've seen there is no other way.

It will always be in what you think is the very worst moment of your life that you are nearest to having a new life. But you must watch for how the mind wants to glorify these 'dark nights of the soul' by imagining what your life will be like when you are reborn.

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Stop Making Painful Mistakes Before They Get Started...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 2, 2017. Part 1: Without the indwelling presence of an eternal Christ--in whose radiance is made apparent the shadows that we have taken to be our self--we couldn't see, never really comprehend the difference between spiritual darkness and light; we'd be unable to differentiate between weakness and strengthLet alone be willing to surrender our...

In this short talk, Guy Finley explains the roles that doubt and faith play in our spiritual work.