Each and every event in our life brings with it a kind of gift just for us, providing we know how to receive it. This priceless offer isn't about ways to empower ourselves through possessions or greater position in life; it is presented to us to help free us from the stress and worry born of the false belief that we need such riches to realize the timeless value of ourselves. What is this gif...

Part 1 Mindfulness is mandatory for anyone wishing to end the misery born of trying – in vain – to fill an empty heart with a string of meaningless experiences. Part 2 We have freedom of choice, but not from the consequences of those choices.

Nothing in the created universe succeeds by itself or for itself; all things work together for the sake of a life greater than the sum of its parts.

To see the places where we feel stuck in life as the secret passageways that they are -- a momentary gateway opened by the divine through which we might glimpse the celestial potential of our soul -- is to no longer live in fear of whatever seems to be in our way. In fact, once we learn to understand the real purpose of what appears to be some impassible moment, we stand at the threshold of a...

Part 1 The purpose behind working to be present is not to put away what's troubling you; the act of being in Presence is to invite the revelation that the unwanted moment you're seeing (in that same instant) is inseparable from the nature of the seer. Part 2 The sleeping mind is a house of mirrors, and whoever enters into it, first enthralled -- and then blinded by what he sees th...

Part 1 Each effort we make to walk toward the Light sends a corresponding wave into that darkness within that we thus intend to illuminate, integrate, and put behind (us). Due to our actions, the subsequent stirring of this dark nature serves a double purpose: first, we are brought into a more acute awareness of our actual interior condition; and second, as a result of this revelation we...

If the love of Light does not include the love of what Light does . . . then we have not the love of Light that we profess, nor shall we ever know the power of that Light in our lives.

The secret purpose of that self-loathing nature in us -- that wants us to suffer today for what we could not do yesterday -- is not there to help us make straight our mistakes, but rather to ensure that we waste the rest of our days struggling to escape the ache of useless regrets. Awake! Detect and reject despair! It is not the guiding light it seems to be, but it is a cold heat that compromi...

Part 1 We rarely see how, or when we act against ourselves -- or others -- because of how instantly, easily we agree to identify with a legion of sleep-inducing thoughts and feelings that appear to serve one purpose: to justify a dark and self-defeating level of us for which there can be no justification. Part 2 What is the denial of anything, of any moment in life but an unseen ag...

The purpose of any true interior practice is not to help us do or achieve something in the world that will make our future a brighter one, but to help us see something now about our present level of being.

In this enlightening short talk, Guy Finley talks about what it means for an individual to set out on the journey to true self-understanding.