The practice of anchoring our attention in the present moment helps dissolve the suffering born of revisiting any painful moment from our past... before it gets started!

As we awaken, one thing becomes clear about our suffering, and our endless struggle to bring it to an end: by ourselves we cannot complete ourselves, anymore than a puzzle has the power to assemble itself. So that whatever we're tempted to do, plan, or become to make ourselves whole must belong to a lower level of self that seeks what it does to avoid seeing its own incomplete nature. There is...

In this video, bestselling inner-life author Guy Finley explains how resisting something is the same as placing your attention on the very thing that you say you don't want.

Part 1: It is impossible to hear the 'Voice of Heaven' -- to be in any level of communication with real conscience -- and to be talking to yourself at the same time. Part 2: In stillness, I see. In silence, I hear. Seeing and hearing in this way, I am instructed... And come to understand.

The moment I become aware of mental noises or voices and pay attention to them, they go silent... but I can feel their presence in the form of pressure in my head. When the pressure dissolves, I feel relaxed since I hear no more voices. Am I going in the correct direction of meditation? (From student correspondence)...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 1, 2017. First, he wears out pleasure, Then, he wears out pain... At last his eyes see truly, They've always been... the same.

Being able to let go of any negative state takes place naturally as you see that the only thing binding you to it, and its misery, is your own attention.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of July 27, 2015. There is no more troubled person on earth than the one who thinks he sees life as it is when, truth be told, all he really 'sees' is what his lower nature is telling him is true... about himself. And so he stars in an ongoing solo performance whose self-selected premise is the same as his pain: 'Everything that happens, moment to moment...

Persistent painful problems in life are born out of one essential weakness: our inability to direct and keep our attention on what we choose to be in relationship with in the moment.

Topics covered: release, meditation, prayer, contemplation, watchful...

Nobility is the effortless and fearless possession of the soul that realizes nothing in the universe can either increase or decrease its God-given estate.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 18, 2017. It is impossible to let go of any painful thought or troubling feeling until you see the parts of yourself that are secretly clinging to it.