I spent this last weekend (of June) in Stockbridge, MA., presenting a 3-day intensive workshop at the Kripalu Institute. During one of the talks, I spoke about a particuilar set of special ideas that struck a note with many of the people there, and I was asked to provide them with a hard copy of those ideas...for reference and as something to later ponder. The piece that follows is developed...
Topics Covered: There is another, higher level of consciousness that is present for us in any moment that we are able to observe ourselves; We as human beings are created with the capacity to be aware of the divided level of consciousness that reacts with fight or flight; What we blame for our reaction cannot be separated from the consciousness that is having that reaction...
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Classroom Talk: 8/27/2021 - The present moment, what we call "Now" is a Presence; (it is) the revelation of what is being born -- living and dying -- in an eternal act of Creation; and because it is untouchable, incorruptible, it is only "be-able." It can only be entered into and realized as the source of our own Being by attending -- consciously -- to its perpetuity.
Topics Covered: There is no such thing as true love without exchange; The level of love that we presently know is limited to conditions and events being in agreement with the defintion of love according to that level of consciousness. Is there another kind of love that does not turn into its opposite when conditions change?; The unnecessary pain in any moment is produced...
Audio seminar presented by Guy Finley at Life of Learning Foundation. Key Lesson: Part I: Here is a spiritual certainty: taking the familiar way out of any reoccurring problem guarantees you will arrive, once more, in the same place from which you started. Part II: Before one can see and know life anew, one must first agree to be...
Whatever seems impossible, or otherwise impassible in life is inseparable from the extent of our resistance to it; a fear inherent in the way we’re conditioned to see such moments...
Student Talks: 2/26/2021 - Key Lesson: 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...
What if you actually understood there is no death? Think for a moment what your life would be like. And I'm not just talking about the incessant human fear of their mortality. I'm talking about those moments in which it feels like you're dying because something has happened to you that you don't like, and how you struggle to keep alive the very thing caught in that crisis -- that nature struggling, suffering instead of understanding that the moment has come...
A spiritual risk is any action we will take based upon our willingness to challenge our own certainty that our present state of consciousness represents the full measure of life's possibility. Here is one simple example: Maybe we feel as though no one understands our situation or that no one is being sensitive to the pressure we're under. During these times most of us feel the strong need to c...
If we can't give the whole of our attention to someone -- or, for that matter, to any moment -- then we can't listen. If we can't listen, we can't possibly hear the whole story...
Rushing somewhere, through anything, in the hope of finding some imagined peace of mind is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!
I want to know true peace of mind, but how do I step out of my frantic world long enough to realize it? Can you give me some practical suggestions for staying in the present moment and observing myself? Why do some people seem to exude peace of mind while I struggle to be calm. What is the source of composure, and how can I work to develop it within myself?...