Once we realize that our present view of self, a view that defines our reality, is a construct of a certain level of our own consciousness, we also realize the need to leave this self-limited world behind us.

True spiritual healing is never the result of an ‘achievement’ one celebrates as such; it's always a very personal, and often painful moment of consciously realizing the extent of one’s weakness. Yet, paradoxically, in the ensuing humility is a victory, but not our own...

Part I: Detect and deliberately drop all fearful thoughts about what "may be" your future and you release yourself from a present torment whose unseen driving force is your consent to consider darkly imagined tomorrows. Part II: We should never measure ourselves according to our "possibilities" because all such estimations of self are always based in secretly embraced evaluation...

Topics covered: There is a peace that comes with any truthful impression that stands the test of time; "Wisdom is the principal thing. Therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting, get understanding." -- Proverbs, Old Testament; The source of every kind of psychological suffering is an individual's present level of understanding; The moment you do not understand is not something to fear...

Classroom Talk: 2/21/2021 - Part 1: Attending to, completing what the present moment asks of you... is the business of real Life. In the silence of this relationship is revealed and received, all at once, the wisdom and wealth of your True Self. A few of these timeless riches include: a faith no fear can shake, an innocence no temptation...

Learn to let go of conditioned ideas, conclusions and pictures of what you think you must have to be safe and content. Inner life author Guy Finley and Dr. Ellen Dickstein discuss how the freer we are, the fewer choices we have to make as we learn to flow with the peace of the present moment...

The seeming advantage to reliving scenes from our life is that since these mental movies are really just reruns whose outcome is already known, there is little to fear in them. But the real downside to this unconscious level of life needs to be seen to be transcended: In exchange for this false sense of comfort we derive from our dreams, we live as unwitting captives in the darkened theatre of...

In this Saturday discussion Guy explores what it means to take proper action in our inner work. Presently we are improperly active or passive toward negative states which leads to unconscious identification with the self that blames the feeling on exterior events...

Each one of us is the living expression of the sum of our understanding, and it is the sum of our understanding that determines our level of happiness. Most of our experiences in life would be different if we were more present and aware of ourselves in the moment. By becoming aware of our habitual reactions to life's movements, we can begin to notice where it is that we compromise ourselves. M...

The higher purpose of suffering is to ground us in the existence and Presence of an altogether higher level of (our own) Being...

In a moment of crisis, would you say that you're easy-going? Are you wide-open and joyous to be with? Or, in a crisis, would you say you're about as tense as a human being could possibly be? Isn't that true? The more tense you are through resistance, the more negative you become. The more negative you become, the more resistance resists itself. And the more you resist yourself, the more tense you become. So you run left, you run right...

The experience of what we are in the moment is always the product of comparison. Presently, what "I am" is always measured against something else, so that my identity begins divided. But our true nature is not something that our minds can think about, and cannot therefore be the product of any comparison. The great lesson that life is always teaching individuals is to let go of being who or w...