The awareness of our living relationship with the present moment empowers us to know what's best for us without having to think about it.

Part I: Think of how many dangerous car accidents wouldn't happen at all if only motorists slowed down their cars even to a small degree. Then imagine just how many painful personal encounters with others we would be able to walk right by - without a hint of a hurtful collision - if only we could slow ourselves down enough to see them coming! Part II: We don't feel the pain of our rushin...

Being myself is what finally happens when every last effort to know myself by thinking about myself has proven useless.

Following is a small excerpt from a "fireside chat" between Guy Finley and Dr. Ellen Dickstein as they explored the topic of The Power to Release Regrets and Get Over Guilt. Guy: We don't "learn" the way that we think we learn... which is by reliving things. No one learns anything by reliving a situation. Ellen: This reminds me of something you said that I found very interesting...

If we would only dare to empty ourselves of ourselves before we think to try and fill ourselves with what we hope can complete us, then we would find ourselves wonderfully empty of all painful empty feelings. At the same time we would begin to realize a new kind of fullness that God alone grants to those who will give up their lives for the sake of being filled with the Grace of His Life.

Topics covered: This work never shows you something about yourself without relieving you from the false belief that it belongs to you; This work isn't negative, it's about revealing what's negative; Only darkness fights with darkness; It's ludicrous to think about yourself at all; Thinking is the principle temptation; It is always the right moment; We live in a construct of time that can't com...

The problem is you don't live in the world that you think you do; on the other hand, the problem is... you live in the world you think you do.

Topics covered: You are tired because you think yourself into exhaustion; One of the pitfalls along the way is that our minds are starving for things to think about; The purpose of a spiritual school is not to give you something new to think about. The purpose is to show you the need to point your attention in another direction; Familiarity breeds contempt. Boredom is built into identification...

Topics covered: I cannot see what is if I'm looking for something; There's a complete difference between physical and spiritual evolution; The dreamer is always trying to perfect itself through its dreams; Thinking is outside of you; You're not here for the perfection of who you think you are; The real work has never been about the glorification of any one individual; You will have to ascend i...

Many, many people today believe there is nothing for them to do other than to just think about themselves through the higher truths they've been taught and are now able to parrot; in this dream it seems their passport to heaven is assured. But...this unseen state of imagination is their undoing, as it is also the secret slayer of their authentic (but still sleeping) need to awaken to real li...

Here is a tough spiritual lesson, but one that must be learned before we free ourselves from the circle of false friends: There was once a sheep who kept crying out, "Why do the wolves chase me, bite at my heels, and want to hurt me so?" The Shepherd smiled and replied: "Why do you like to wander through the woods where they live, and what makes you think that when another creature shows yo...

We should count as most valuable any day where, in some small way, we are awake enough to catch our own wrong thinking working to make us its victim.