Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 7, 2013. There is a conscious suffering that serves to ripen the soul, and then there is an unconscious suffering... that corrupts it, causing it to rot. So, we must choose wisely; because only by seeing the real difference between these two paths, and in consciously realizing their opposing purposes, can we discern which one serves our best i...

Love is effortless attention. In remembering the Divine, in that recollection of the truth of ourselves, we bring to the forefront of our heart and mind an all-encompassing Presence that cannot punish itself, or any other...

There is no "right" road to follow that leads to the realization of one's immortal Self. If we wish to be one with a celestial consciousness, capable of responding with effortless wisdom to any demand -- regardless of its nature, high or low --t hen all images of such a being must be thrown away. St. Paul provides us with the reason why we must agree to die to those parts of us that hope for a higher life to come...

Guy Finley, the founder and director of Life of Learning Foundation, explains that the world we see with our eyes cannot lift us into the world of our true possibilities, but we can catch momentary feelings which are a reflection of a world above us and within us. The full replay of this class is available in Life of Learning Foundation's online community, GuyFinleyNow.org, where you can join...

The feeling that everything is right with your life comes in direct proportion to you being for everything that is right in life. When you begin to be for God, for Truth -- before you're for yourself -- the Truth of God's Life will begin to be there before you. This Supreme Nature will start to live inside of you and do something that you've never been able to do for yourself. Which is wh...

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...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 3, 2016. 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...

I was thinking this afternoon about the man who introduced you to me. What would I say to him now, if we could meet? Did he have any idea what he was doing? Had he given any thought to what was going to happen to me? How the rest of my life, every facet of it, would be shaped by that moment our paths then crossed? Did he understand I would lose everything I treasure because the only constant...

Just as shadows prove the light that creates them, so is it true that to hunger or thirst proves the existence of what is created to answer that need; it is equally so when it comes to our hunger and thirst for the love of the Divine...

There are two basic kinds of prayer. The first kind of prayer -- the one most commonly understood and practiced -- is when you are asking for what you want; when you are temporarily filled with -- and renewed by -- both the self making that request and the anticipation of what is requested. This is the only kind of prayer that most men and women ever know; when someone asks from himself for...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 16, 2015. The reward of any true spiritual intention is the revelation that same action serves to produce. The more we learn to "see" by this interior Light -- what was in the dark of us only moments before -- the more faith we have that our wish and work to know the Truth of ourselves is the same as its appearance within us. This is the Way...

Whenever someone hurts us with a pointed remark, what we see isn't whether or not there's truth in their words; all we "see" is our wish they hadn't said anything at all! In such moments we are absorbed by a familiar negative reaction whose one desire is that the unwanted event just go away. This resistance acts within and upon our consciousness as a "blinding" and binding force, so all we can...