The reason that we do what we do is because we are looking for the truth of ourselves. It doesn't matter - wanting to learn how to cook, wanting to start a new business, looking for a new relationship, wanting to learn how to write a book, surf, sumo wrestling - whatever it may be. And as many people as there are hearing or reading this... wherever you are, all over the world and in this room...

Unattended thoughts are thieves; not only do they sneak in and steal your attention in exchange for the thrilling, but fleeting sensations they provide, but then they turn around and sell you 'insurance:' more thoughts promising to protect you from the inevitable sense of loss that always comes with having identified with an illusion.

There is a conscious suffering that serves to ripen the soul, and then there is an unconscious suffering... that corrupts it, causing it to rot. So, we must choose wisely; because only by seeing the real difference between these two paths, and in consciously realizing their opposing purposes, can we discern which one serves our best interests, and which one secretly steals them.

As a rule, the first thing we experience -- whenever we see something negative in us -- is an involuntary negative reaction: we immediately condemn ourselves. But Light never condemns; its nature is to reveal, transform, and release. Which means this mechanical mental activity going on in us -- along with its aching --must be going on for some purpose other than our perfection or protection.

Living within you is the understanding that you are created for a single purpose. The single purpose is that you represent--as an individual--the possibility of perfection. Why is it that we love music the way that we do? You probably have never thought of it before, but it is because you are a living tempo. The heartbeat of the Universe is what gives you your heartbeat. The perfect harmony o...

The reason why we can't see the impossibility of appeasing our hunger for "more" is because our lower nature is incapable of learning the fact that -- spiritually speaking -- "more" doesn't exist without "less." Experience proves, irrefutably, the presence of something within us that is -- for all intents and purposes -- bottomless. Where, in fact, the more we pour into it, the bigger becom...

Guy Finley explains our role in finding real fulfillment and purpose.

We all long to be known: it is the unspoken hope of the heart that something Greater than ourselves already knows the undiscovered places in our soul, and only waits to show us all that we are. But, as yet, we know not even ourselves -- and true self-knowledge is the secret partner of this longing that accepts no other lover.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 24, 2014. Part 1: No one escapes the painful illusion of duality -- the progenitor of fear, and all of one's futile efforts to escape it -- without sacrificing the divided level of one's self responsible for its continuous manifestation. Part 2: One's 'self' is the only thing that one can be in charge of... And yet, paradoxically, this highes...

Topics covered: It is the things that we are identified with -- that we don't know we are identified with -- that are the basis of old fears; It should be obvious that the purpose of our life cannot have anything to do with what the mind thinks the purpose of life is about; It is what you discover about this life -- not what we take from it -- that is meaningful and everlasting...

There are two basic kinds of prayer. The first kind of prayer -- the one most commonly understood and practiced -- is when you are asking for what you want; when you are temporarily filled with -- and renewed by -- both the self making that request and the anticipation of what is requested. This is the only kind of prayer that most men and women ever know; when someone asks from himself for...

There is no greater feature that we human beings have than the presence of a living Light within us whose very nature knows what is its own and what is not its own... because when at last we let go of all that is not our own -- all the mistaken conclusions, and the painful contusions they cause as we anxiously search to remedy what ruins us -- we find that we already have everything...