When we realize that the world around us is powerless to grant our wish for a sense of real permanency, our attention naturally turns toward that uncharted country within us where, as our eyes accustom themselves to the light therein, we catch a glimpse of our Eternal Home.

Our lives in these modern times seem to consist of nothing but one problem after another. The level of mind that we live from currently is constantly trying to resolve everything that it sees as a problem. Our minds are often preoccupied with trying to change what we don't want, and so we find ourselves resisting life as it comes to us. But is it actually "me" that does not want my present ci...

What happens when we see things about ourselves that we don't want to see? In order to avoid looking at itself, the mind will seize on the anger, impatience, grief, loneliness, or anxiety it has seen... and it will try to explain it. It will take the initial darkness, the negative energy, and because it seems to be so bad, the mind will make something out of it that it can deal with...

Relationships serve as a platform for revelation; It is through meeting limitation that we grow; As things break up, we can use them to wake up or we can let them pull us down; Dependency breeds fear, fear breeds resentment, resentment breaks up relationships; The only thing that troubles me about another person is what I want from them; Every relationship is literally a mirror; We are meant t...

When the student is ready, the teacher appears; The purpose of each moment is liberation; Turning your cheek not 7 times, but 70 times; We can't resist something and learn from it at the same time; Five words to end conflict: "Let me get this one!"; Awareness has no judgement in it; Love flourishes because sacrifice leads the way; There is no such thing as a bad fact about yourself; Five quick...

Everyone wonders whether or not there is one great secret for truly successful living. There is. And it is not a secret. Listen quietly for a moment: everything can change right now. Learning to hear this supreme secret is no more difficult than choosing whether to swim against a current or to let it carry you safely to the shore. ~~~ Real change itself isn't found in some new way to think...

Saturday video Q&A with Guy Finley recorded at Life of Learning Foundation 2/12/11. In this special Saturday class Guy answers GuyFinleyNow.org members' questions on a variety of inner life topics.

Any happiness we feel over the pain that someone else goes through -- regardless of who or why -- insures we remain a blind prisoner of the fact that hidden within our present idea of happiness also lies the source of our suffering.

Why is it that we so seldom remember to help another at the cost of ourselves, and yet find it so hard to forget those who fail to remember us in our hour of need?

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about our common need for a higher kind of love that releases us from feelings of fear, doubt and hopelessness.

Why is it that we so seldom remember to help another at the cost of ourselves, and yet find it so hard to forget those who fail to remember us in our hour of need?...

Topics Covered: Suppose when we become Truthful, less people agree with us and desert us, particularly family. What will I do in this case?; Freedom from the resistance and anger that comes up to "handle" my spouse's non-stop patronizing in her attempt to fix everything about me; "Who" is it who feels hurt?; What happens immediately after we die?...