In this Saturday discussion Guy explains the reason for the eating exercise and why it is important to cultivate our attention.

Learning to let the whole world pass us by is the only way to discover that the fear of losing some imagined power, possession, or position in life is the same dying to an equally imagined lower level of self that "lives" to cling to it.

Topics Covered: When it comes to taking sides on controversial issues, we want to be for something that sits above the two; You will never get over inferiority by seeking superiority; Attention is developed to allow you to remain in higher interior ground; Understanding (with a capital U) is Freedom; We suffer from spiritual shortsightedness; Thought is the instrument of a level of desire; A s...

Informal discussion led by Guy Finley at Life of Learning Foundation on 9/22/12.

Classroom Talk: 5/1/2024 - Whether a captive of a moment -- or changed, and completed by it -- all depends on what we attend to in that same moment.

Topics covered: The degree to which you see the truth of yourself is the degree to which you will be a free human being; It is in the revelation of your limitations that you are set free from identification with those limitations; Only human beings, no other creature, can decide for themselves what they give their attention to; It is impossible to see that Life is always changing until we agree to let Life change us as well...

No one is less interesting than someone who thinks nothing could be more fascinating than telling you all about himself.

Topics Covered: Until there is a new awareness of consciousness, the divided consciousness is the observer; The observer never judges, instead the observer sees the judge; Explaining the reaction is the same as avoiding awareness of it; A hurricane serves the broader celestial system; The divided consciousness only wants awareness of something for the sake of what it wants...

Topics covered: In the words of Yoda, do or do not, there is no try; The mind that doesn't want to make a mistake can't learn; An emotional impression expands into the intellect; If I'm not present to myself first then anything that comes from any part of me is a lie; You must never find satisfaction from your inner work; True humility is understanding that we mostly live from a nature whose t...

Topics covered: The whole of the work boils down to being able to stand in front of the mirror of the moment and not flinch; Everything is about the transformation of spiritual food; This moment is a force, an active energy; Rushing is an unrecognized form of fear and greed; We seek higher knowledge because of dissatisfaction and longing; You can't need the divine without the divine already be...

Topics Covered: Our hope is not in things seen; Being the witness of useless suffering; Use the fear of the future to find the fearless heart; Accept the moment as it is given as an act of higher Will; We don't want to fix ourselves, we want to see ourselves; Dismissal of habitual reactions; Awareness of the play of creation; Replace the idea of "faster" with "more aware"...

Topics covered: Your usual sense of I is mostly attached to the motor system; Real prayer requires a concerted effort with all parts of yourself; There are different levels of attention utilized by different levels of yourself; Silence is perfect safety because nothing can enter into it unannounced; The first rebirth comes from leaving the world of thought; It's impossible to see something new...