In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the difference between being completely passive to life's movements, and being properly active in the moment, which involves listening intently to what the present moment is wanting to communicate to us about ourselves.

The experience of every moment of our life is a direct reflection of our nature. Life really is a special kind of journey that each and every day can present new vistas to our eager perception. Instead, we live in an unhappy world created by our misperception. Yet one of the marvels of our lives is that they can undergo a natural healing process when our wish for an awakened consciousness al...

We are created not to know ourselves by what we think about, but to know ourselves within God's ever-present, perfectly changing life. The challenge for us is that we are habituated to thinking about ourselves and deriving a sensation of ourselves based upon the images that we consider. What happens to us when we feel the blows in life? In those moments where Life is actually trying to bring...

Classroom Talk: 5/12/2019 - The misunderstanding of our relationship with life, awash with the unseen and useless suffering it creates, is the "mind and heart" of the false self, whereas the realization of our relationship to life, including our willingness to fulfill the obligation it calls for... is True Self.

The unexpected sweetness of any perfectly silent moment is that the only "self" present to receive this gift is the one that is its perfect reflection.

Nothing in the universe can make you relive some painful moment from your past as long as you choose to live from the higher understanding that no old dark thought has the power to define you, let alone drag you down.

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...

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about the importance of being present to what each moment reveals to us about ourselves.

Why can't we listen without conflict? There is almost always some kind of inner dialog going on in the background, formulating an interpretation of the moment and how we ought to respond to it. The true purity of the moment is rarely experienced. Seeing the fact of this division is the beginning of being present to the moment more fully.

We cannot grow spiritually without receptivity, but presently most of us do not understand receptivity in its entirety. As it often happens now, there are moments of being receptive to a higher impression, but then the impression is immediately taken over by the sensation of the impression, so that our minds instantly turn a moment of receptivity into a moment of "my" experience.

Topics Covered: Leave the teaching moment alone; Feeling an instantaneous sense of "No!"; Understanding the spirit of inquiry; Recognizing the pattern of: reaction -> description -> action; The circumstances are the stage for the lesson presented; The instruction exists in the very moment of disturbance; "Who you are" and "what to do" are actually one thing in the moment

Everything we need to know about "what to do" is always right here with us. But the mind that is always trying to escape the moment that is being revealed believes that it must think of something to do in order to get through the moment. There is no problem in the present moment. There is only a mind that creates a problem because it doesn't understand the moment...