Classroom Talk: 5/21/2004 - We spend so much of our time thinking and re-thinking about how to succeed with our personal escape plans that -- for these same dreams of a freedom to come -- it never has a chance to dawn on us that our True Nature cannot be made a prisoner of anything!

More often than most of us care to tell, we run into unwanted moments that seem to challenge the very fabric of our being. Almost anything can be the proverbial straw that breaks us: a friend's betrayal, loss of health or a loved one, unexpected financial strain. Even a shattered dream can throw us into a dark nightmare. Certainly, no one gets out of his or her bed in the morning thinking, "To...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 25, 2016. No moment is any more 'important' than we make it out to be. This means no moment, in and of itself, is important... but rather that somewhere within us dwells a desperate part of us that will -- and does -- make any event into exactly what it needs in order to give itself the feeling of being important!...

True nobility is not a question of birth right or social rank; it is the native estate of each soul that, upon awakening to its divine inheritance, knows the strength of these twin truths without having to think about them: justice and mercy are one, as is love and fearlessness.

In this Saturday discussion Guy explains a key misconception behind guilt and making mistakes. What is primarily at work is self-protection, the self thinks it is separate from what it just did, but feeling guilty or sorry for a mistake...

Have you ever limited yourself with what you thought was a power at the time you started it? Sometimes you can do something that takes you twenty years before you begin to suspect that it's a limitation and not a power. You think to yourself, "I'm really going to empower myself by getting an education, because when I have that new education, I'll have the approval I want, I'll feel accepted, a...

You can’t be “no one.” The choice is be someone defined and confined by the limitation of thought, or to be (the) One who sees and realizes -- without having to think about it -- that (the) true Self is indefinable...

The present moment is the door of perception -- and if, when you look through it, you see something you recognize -- or otherwise think you know -- then all you're really seeing is a reflection of your self upon the mirrored surface of the door. The true door of perception opens... only into the unknown.

Dare to drop any moment in which you can catch yourself comparing how you think things "should be" against your perception of how they appear to be and you will begin in these very same moments to drop an unconscious form of suffering that you have been mistaking for your sense of self.

The next time you run into some familiar blockage or begin to feel unsuited to face some new and difficult personal challenge, don't try to think your way around it.

ED: Hi. I'm Dr. Ellen Dickstein, and I'm here with bestselling inner life author, Guy Finley. Today we're going to talk about finding freedom from painful attachments. Guy, I think all of us know what it is to have a painful attachment. Throughout our lives, we develop attachments to people and to objects. Maybe we even have dreams that we're attached to, and then we find that they don't fulf...

I bought a journal awhile ago and have yet to write in it. The intention is there for a moment, and then I get "tricked" into thinking that its a waste of time. Do you think there is value in keeping a journal and writing each day -- even if just for a few moments -- about observations, etc.? (From student correspondence)...