Part I: Yet discovered within you are map, mountain, path, and hiding place of a treasure beyond imagination. The wise seek it; what are you waiting for? Part II: What comfort is there is any belief that caves in when contested? If we are to know the peace, power, and protection of a Living Truth -- one that never collapses under pressure -- then we must willingly step into whatever challenge...

Part 1So great is the need of the false self to feel itself as being "important" that it never stops imagining the scenarios it needs to give itself the feeling that something vital is almost always at risk. And, as incredible as it seems, it uses this ensuing, self-created state of tension and anxiety -- a pain that drives it from pillar to post -- as proof that the peace it seeks..

Topics covered:  There is no urgency in a natural creature. There is no rush in nature. Every movement in nature is in perfect harmony. Human beings are always in a state of urgency; No creature in nature is concerned about what it means to be productive. Nature's creatures are already productive because they are already a participant in the whole movement of creation; "Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment?" -- New Testament

It's a very dangerous thing for the mind to be in motion before one even knows where it's going!...

Topics covered: We have truth classes so that we can all experience and see the same understanding; Every insight that is put into words is a form of knowledge, and knowledge by its nature is always incomplete, so you can't take knowledge to be the end of understanding; My opposition to unwanted moments is that I feel as though something is being taken from me or threatened...

If you will learn to tend to every thing that appears in your life in its time, then it won't be long before the whole idea of being anxious over anything will just quietly give way to this ceaseless revelation, accompanied by its peace-giving realization: there is nothing more important for you to do, no other place for you to go... Than to be right where you are, doing what you're being gi...

The more any thought pushes you to run toward a time of some anticipated rest, the more you should work to slow down to see the following truth: with one hand, an unconscious self points to a “peace just ahead,” even as its other hand is stirring up some form of anxiety that you might not get there!

When it comes to being in a hurry, what difference does it make how fast you can get somewhere when all you find there is the next thing for you to rush through?...

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how we must first become consciously dissatisfied with our discontentment if we want to begin the process of letting go of it.

Memories trail us on the horizontal line of passing time, acting as guides and interpreters of the present moment when, in truth, they blind us to its all-encompassing Presence from out of which time flows; they secretly separate us from this Kingdom just above us where Wisdom, Patience, and Love abide in perfect Peace. And, in exchange for our agreement to sleep in these fragile dreams..

We can either spend our time thinking about what we don't have, feeling empty and bitter over some imagined contentment lost... or we can become quietly aware of what we already are and find there, within our Self, what is overflowing, full of Light, and beyond the reach of any dark thought.

The more we awaken to realize our true role in life is to fill the gap between "what is" with "what has been" -- by agreeing to die to any part of us that would otherwise interfere with its atonement -- the more we see the truth that sets us free: our willingness to make this sacrifice aligns us, on the spot, with an ineffable peace that is inseparable from actualizing our Divine responsibility...