Guy Finley explains that the path to a quiet mind is not through battling with what we think opposes our peace; it is by remembering what we love, and giving our attention to self-observation so we can instead be a witness of the moment.

In the end, nothing we can win in this life can enrich us half as much as what we are willing to lose for the sake of living without fear.

Topics covered: Suffering happens when something in life challenges a pattern that you don't even know you're a part of; Attention is connection; The sleeping mind is a breeding ground for self-defeat; New action is determined by the new light of a new intelligence...

Classroom Talk: 6/27/2021 - Contemplation is sustained attention on a question the heart holds in its keeping, knowing, full well, that the mind -- of itself -- cannot answer. This form of sustained conscious inquiry is the ground of true meditation: it is creation aware of itself.

Has whatever I’m about to do ever brought an end to the compulsion to do it? Clearly I must be looking for something not of this world...

The Wise have always taught: As goes our attention, so comes our experience. The more we attend to living in the present moment, the richer becomes our experience of it... and of our own higher possibilities.

When you see the poverty of your present fallen nature, the wish to have your attention on the divine and ask it to be with you naturally follows. The more aware you are of a pain that you can't push away, the more you are naturally in prayer.

In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about the difference between observing a particular psychological condition -- such as feeling a lack of energy -- and resisting the condition.

We must no longer allow ourselves to identify with any negative state, regardless of why that state tells us we must embrace its painful presence. That is to say, we must become as ruthless in detecting and rejecting these dark thoughts and feelings as they have been ruthless in wrecking our lives. Here is why this instruction is such a spiritual imperative if we wish to know the light life.

Student Talks: 7/2/2021 - Key Lesson: Contemplation is sustained attention on a question the heart holds in its keeping, knowing, full well, that the mind -- of itself -- cannot answer. This form of sustained conscious inquiry is the ground of true meditation: it is creation aware of itself.

When we realize that the world around us is powerless to grant our wish for a sense of real permanency, our attention naturally turns toward that uncharted country within us where, as our eyes accustom themselves to the light therein, we catch a glimpse of our Eternal Home.

Topics covered: Nature's creatures serve the nature that has created them; Man is created for the purpose of seeing himself; Attending to the whole of the moment both interiorly and exteriorly; Self-observation is the most rudimentary thing for a person to do and should come naturally; How can you be moved to act against yourself and not know it; There is no static state for the human being; I...