Topics covered: Our suffering is solved the moment we find where it is that, without knowing it, we have been living from a nature that isn't just complicit with its continuity, but that can't live without it; What you give your attention to cannot be separated from the sense of self derived from it. Anything that captures your attention becomes your experience and your sense of self...

Topics covered: Ying and yang are opposing characters but they live in a complementary relationship, as opposed to one pushing out and the other pushing back. They appear together constantly. Nothing I try to push away isn't pushing back as I'm doing it; Karma is the consistent, perfect, harmonious relationship between opposing forces; You can't escape any sense of unrest as long as you don't want it...

Student Talks: 11/27/2020 - Key Lesson: Only by daring to see the truth of ourselves in challenging moments will we ever see, and then be set free by the revelations that await us there. For instance, the "weight" of any relationship that seems to overpower us is inseparable from our resistance to what it brings up in us...

Topics Covered: We're anxious, worried and fearful because we live with an interior bully that we know nothing about; We have to prove to ourselves what our intuition already tell us, which is that we are not here on earth to hoard as many possessions as possible so that we can live free from disturbances forever; The acronym MOIB stands for "My Own Inner Bully"...

Topics Covered: Instead of setting us free, anything that we identify with as being the source of freedom turns out to be a prison; We resist moments because of the perceived threat of losing something, of somehow being made less by the moment; The mind that resists the moment will produce an image of what needs to be done to get through the moment unharmed...

Topics Covered: We are already a part of something whose power cannot be denied, even when it is refused; Never run from the fear of feeling powerless, and if you don't run you will be given, by grace, the power to see that everything you feared was a lie; The feeling of being powerless is in fact a doorway into a relationship with something that can never be made to feel...

More often than not, aspirants fail to see the following truth that -- only as realized -- sets the stage for a new and unimaginable spiritual order of freedom: spiritual facts, left to themselves -- regardless how elevated or sublime -- morph into an unseen psychological trap: a literal web of soul-entangling concepts that, when not consciously acted on...

Success born of anything less than hard work comes with the fear of losing what was never rightfully gained in the first place.

Classroom Talk: 8/9/2023 - Real life never stops starting over; but, before we can step foot in this timeless new kingdom -- and know any portion of its unencumbered freedom -- we must agree to step out of the world of dreams, and leave behind us their endless illusion of a "better time" to come.

Key Lesson: Whatever we may do in this life that is unnatural, if we do it long enough... becomes second nature.

In this short talk, Guy Finley explains the difference between the false kind of shame that shackles us to a self that is trapped in the past, and the proper kind of conscious remorse that is the seed of true humility and freedom.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 23, 2017. There is only one way to sharpen -- to polish and refine -- one's spiritual understanding, including its set of inherent interior skills... and that is to consistently, repeatedly throw yourself into and up against anything and everything that stands between you and what higher intuition beckons you to see, comprehend, and become.