Classroom Talk: 8/4/2019 - The body can be disciplined. The mind should be trained. But, spiritual realization requires that one's wild heart be surrendered.

Want to know how free you really are? Good! You're about to be presented with a unique opportunity to learn all about your individual level of inner liberty. Assembled here for your self-study is a very special kind of test. But don't worry! You can't fail this examination. This test is unlike any you've ever taken before. It's designed to help you gaze into yourself and then use what you se...

Stand, like mountain, Bend, like reed. Surge, like fountain, Wait, like seed. Give, like sunshine, Melt, like snow. Live, like springtime . . . Come and go.

To change what we receive from life, we must have a new perception of it, beginning with new ideas about it.

Classroom Talk: 5/26/2019 - Hoping to understand the real cause behind some painful, or otherwise unwanted moment by talking to yourself about it -- after it takes place -- is like arriving at the airport hours after your plane's departed, and believing that revisiting the reasons why you missed the flight is almost the same as having caught it.

Best-selling "letting go" author Guy Finley explains how psychological fear is always connected to the idea that something of value can be taken from us. But who we really are cannot be hurt.

The peace of the perfectly present moment, in which dwells the kingdom of heaven, is what our heart of hearts longs to know.

Until the embrace of some spiritual ideal leads to the ordeal of going through what is required to become the embodiment of that truth, real spiritual work remains mostly imagined.

GF: Welcome everyone. Let me open our meeting with some thoughts about what is required of us if we would realize a more awakened life. We will discuss some of these truths now, and just before the end of the chat I will lay out a set of easy-to-understand personal exercises that you can work with on a daily basis. Now, let's begin at the beginning with an important point that ought to be mor...

We are tested not by Spiritual Light but in spiritual darkness...for what test is made amongst things revealed? Our real inner worth is measured by what we turn to in moments concealed.

How many of us have had moments in our lives where we have tried to escape certain qualities of ourselves by doing different things, only to find ourselves unable to escape the condition, unable to escape our present nature, so that finally the day comes where there's no escaping it, but there's no living with it either? And in the moment, we can no longer resist our own character based on the assumption that we ought not be that kind of human being.