Part 1: Awakening to the presence of some weak, or otherwise painful character at large within us marks the beginning of the end of its command over us. Part 2: The longer one is able to observe oneself -- all parts of oneself, unadorned -- the less interest one has in being identified with any of these (separate) parts while, at the same time, the more willingly does one commit to do the inne...

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about the vital importance of going beyond mere knowledge about spiritual principles and beginning the real work of integrating what we know about ourselves into our daily lives.

It is what we attend to that determines what we will ascend or descend through.

Guy answers how to stop being anxious with his quote, "As goes my attention so comes my experience." When anxiety has your attention stuck on worrying about a stressful situation that's your experience. A change in attention relieves us from the stressful connection to anxiety.

You'll never climb out of the hole you find yourself in. Real Life has no holes to fall into. Every hole is a self-produced hole. Your mind actually builds the hole, then looks at it and says, "How did I get in here?" This means that if you find yourself in a hole and then struggle to climb out, the only thing you'll succeed at doing is digging the hole deeper. Thinking about the hole you'...

Once we understand there is no flower, no leaf, no limb or branch that is greater than any other part that grows on the tree of life, then we realize it is more than enough to be just and only what we are in the moment.

Identifying with any kind of negative thought or feeling for having realized, inescapably, the fact that you are spiritually asleep is itself, a manifestation of the same level of mechanical self over which you now mourn.

It is what we attend to that determines what we will ascend or descend through.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 14, 2016. The inevitable sense of emptiness that eventually nips at the heels of most men and women is the sudden realization that in spite of having 'banked' a billion self-stimulating sensations -- even when all have been added up -- they still amount to nothing.

Your true nature is fearless because it lives for one reason only: to be the unflagging instrument moment to moment of whatever love asks it to be.

Part 1 The proven way to end ninety-nine percent of those heart-heavy feelings that drag you down each day is to stop thinking about yourself! Part 2 The only way to realize a life free of painful comparison to others is to boldly embrace yourself as you are ... and discover therein that no one else on earth has been gifted with the possibilities you alone are created to know.

In this Saturday discussion Guy explains why willingness is critical to entering into a relationship with that which is higher, purer and brighter.