Look no further than your own heart for the answers to all of your prayers. Best-selling spiritual author Guy Finley explains why we need never fear feeling empty or alone. Discover how discontentment is secretly a golden door leading to a Life beyond unhappiness, where all we will need for a contented life already awaits us.

Lately, I have noticed a growing sense of desolation...as if I am wandering through an endless, dry desert. My days seem utterly empty of anything important. Indeed, the whole world looks this way to me. Sometimes it feels as if I have come to some plateau where all is meaningless, and above it there is nothing more. Sometimes even the mountains look...unbeautiful. What's happening to me? (...

Some take the high road. Some take the low road. Some take the road with friends and family. Others take it alone. Some travel with clowns and animals. Some take only walking shoes. Some take the road with guru and saint, While others take the road with drunks. Some walk the road so slowly as to stand still, Even as some sprint toward a finish line as if it's in sight. Some...

Classroom Talk: 1/21/2024 - Never forget that no real spiritual effort is ever in vain, even when you're given to see some low estate into which you have fallen. In turn, always remember: the ocean into which all rivers eventually empty themselves is always at their lowest point, and that this lowly place is, in fact, the origin and source of their waters.

Classroom Talk: 10/11/2020 - Part 1: We cannot live in fear of discovering the truth about ourselves, about our life... and hope to find the truth at the same time. Part 2: Here's an immutable spiritual law: we will never know all it's possible for us to be until we agree to consciously empty ourselves of all that we have been moment-to-momen...

Classroom Talk: 7/16/2004 - Seeking the approval of others -- in the hope of measuring the worth of ourselves -- makes as much sense as looking for our reflection in a falling drop of rain, with the main difference being this: A raindrop actually lasts longer than does that fleeting sense of self we win for having sold our soul for another empty smile.

Classroom Talk: 3/30/2003 - We are never punished by life itself, but only by our life choices. This timeless Truth helps to explain how the wise can dwell in the exact same world as do the willfully ignorant, but instead of seeing it as a dark, empty, and often painful place, find it to be full of Light and rich with Promise.

We have within us a new, higher vantage point -- a very special part of ourselves within which we may be at peace regardless of what goes on around us. This yet-to-be realized state of ourselves may be called conscious self-awareness. Through its power, instead of being pulled down into painful identification with the passing shadows of life, we can discover a life in a peace far above the rea...

Topics Covered: Is it true that God never gives you more than you can handle; When your understanding changes, your perception changes; To be asleep means to be outside of Presence; You are meant to discover qualities of yourself through the ceaseless movement of life; How do I empty myself of a self-centered nature; The mind occupies itself with trying to fix the feeling of being incomplete...

Nothing can be fully transcended without having completely experienced its nature; and this includes temptation, whatever its nature. The "saint" is not someone who has never been tempted, but rather the one who -- having come to know its nature so fully -- can no longer be deceived by any of its empty promises... or veiled threats.

Whenever we love someone (even a natural wonder or common creature), we know that our own higher emotional state awakens in us a kind of exalted energy; one that seems to melt barriers and that brings us into relationship with our beloved in ways beyond our understanding. But that's not all: not only does this unseen force of life grant us access to the secret regions of our beloved's heart bu...

Student Talks: 1/26/2024 - Key Lesson: Never forget that no real spiritual effort is ever in vain, even when you're given to see some low estate into which you have fallen. In turn, always remember: the ocean into which all rivers eventually empty themselves is always at their lowest point, and that this lowly place is, in fact, the origin and source of their waters.