In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how anything that is authentically new in life is the fulfillment of a pattern, which then creates a new pattern, which itself is then intended to be transformed into something new. It is a timeless process of rebirth.

Participating in a spiritual school accelerates an aspirant's life as they are brought into, and nourished by, the pool of experiences of the group itself.

There is only one path that leads to a relationship with what is holy, and therefore perfectly complete... And that is to see -- without flinching, and finally without regret -- that all of the (seemingly attractive) paths through this life always end right where they began: in a too-familiar, but terrible, sense of emptiness.

Calling on, and then allowing a spirit of unrest to help guide you to the peace that your heart of hearts seeks...Is like hoping that a stiff winter wind has come, just in time, to help you gather all the leaves that lay scattered across your lawn.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of July 25, 2016. We have but a single thing to do to satisfy the Soul and, in turn, fulfill her role in the Greater Plan of Creation. Our one True Task in Life is... to complete the moment as we are given to it. This is the first agreement; and in our obedience (to it) is found not only our freedom... but also the assurance of knowing that whatever sacr...

Topics covered: To find the purpose of your life is to find peace, but not the kind of peace that the mind is seeking, which is conflict disguised as peace; Everything that we see in the visible world comes out of an unknown invisible world. The visible is always being renewed by the invisible; We are a captive of the consciousness that is always attempting to define what it sees...

Classroom Talk: 1/14/2024 - The greatest possibility for acquiring the Divine energy required to facilitate the transformation of oneself is found only in the moments of higher awareness that, itself, can only be realized in the same time and place of one's greatest resistance to that moment.

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...

The only thing we really "win" in any temporary victory over life, that's paid for by agreeing to be angry, aggressive, or otherwise ache, is this dark and unseen guarantee: We will live to fight another day but, for this personal "prize," lose -- little by little -- the possibility of ever knowing a true and eternal peace.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 2, 2017. The wish to know the truth of yourself -- to make the soul's journey back to its celestial home -- originates from a part of you that is already there... As it is impossible to long to return to someplace where you haven't already been.

Nothing true and timelessly Good has ever taken root and flowered in this world that wasn't first sown by love, cultivated through sacrifice, and watered with tears.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 31, 2016. Calling ourselves by a negative name -- strongly criticizing some false quality, or otherwise rejecting any dark characteristic of self suddenly brought into the light: these are the chief ways that the lower nature keeps itself hidden within us... even as it perfects the way it punishes us through this all-but-unseen agreement. Afte...