If you want something to flower, you have to put it out into the light. It is the light that makes things flower. Spiritual work is very simple on one hand, but on the other hand it is not easy due to the parts of us that want to keep us in the dark. In reality, there is nothing that stands in the way of you bringing the whole of yourself into the light of the moment. The light is always bran...

Seeing the spiritually lost state, the interior bankruptcy of other human beings can be used to accelerate your own relationship with the Divine, but only if you understand that you are not on this earth to judge the nature of others, but to transcend it.

There is a proportionate and direct relationship between the degree of an inconsolable pain -- some form of disquiet that's pretty much our daily companion -- and misunderstanding the real purpose of this life we have been given.

Classroom Talk: 8/21/2005 - Instead of being the source of our daily sorrow, the fact that everything in life passes ought to prove itself a part of our ongoing joy. For hidden in the deep of this ceaselessly changing river of Life runs the power of this self-healing discovery: whenever we stumble over some unwanted remains of the day, it is we who have stepped outside the flow of Real Life, and our pain is the price for wanting to be a world unto ourselves. 

You are the answer to the question you ask. To have this true self-knowledge -- born of higher self-understanding -- leads to a life without fear, a faith that grows daily, and the patience it requires to perfect your relationship with the Divine.

Student Talks: 2/15/2019 - Key Lesson: The passage of life’s events, including the innumerable relationships through which they are revealed, can either grind us down, or serve to remove our rough, sharp edges; so that whether we feel punished or are polished by our relationships in life all depends upon how well...

Classroom Talk: 1/30/2005 - We affirm the Truth -- not by professing its powers on sunny days, but in our willingness to walk by its Light -- even in the midst of those darkest storms where all we can see by this Light is just how powerless we are.

There never seems enough time to make full reparations for the wrong we do to another in a moment of careless speech, so wouldn't it be wise to take time -- before we speak -- to ensure that whatever we're about to say holds no harm in it.

The smaller the self, the bigger the sense of offense it takes whenever anyone steps up to challenge one of its precious self-images.

Only by coming to know -- intimately -- the Divine purpose of each moment in our life can we hope to play our part in the fulfillment of the purpose of Life itself... which is the only relationship in which dwells the perfectly fearless, unshakable peace of the Divine.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 13, 2017. If simply being able to quote a great Truth -- or to effortlessly recite some telling scripture -- were the same as the sacrifice it calls for to embody that principle in the midst of a personally troubling moment, then parrots would be prophets, and hypocrites... the soldiers of God.

In this short talk, Guy Finley explains that any state which we call "love" that does not include some kind of sacrifice is actually a secret form of self-glorification.