Remastered Classic Talk: 8/26/15 - The real thing that's unwanted in any moment is not the event we blame for our pain. The actual source of (our) suffering is in having identified with a negative reaction, and then mechanically resisting this unconscious state now rooted in the darkness of our mind. In other words: resistance is the source of (our) pain, and not the event we blame for it. Once we see our complicity in the creation of these troubled thoughts and feelings... it's not that they go away, but rather that in dropping our identification with them, it is we who are now empowered to depart from their dark world.

Before we can ever learn to love one another as we would hope to do, we must first be willing to see that for too long we have loved only ourselves . . . and that even this has been done poorly.

Love is a latent interior "hunger" we all feel through our longing to know -- deeply -- someone or something to which we are drawn. And Love understands that whatever we will agree to draw near to ensures -- given time -- we will come to know it; and then, transformed by Her magic through a marriage of a sort, we become as one with what was once unknown to us. Don't think this to...

I believe in God but I feel so detached from him -- I don't know spiritual love. I have no feelings for him one way or the other. Can you please tell me what it takes to come to truly love God? I would appreciate any insights you have that may enlighten me. (Student correspondence, 10/31/06)...

Guy Finley talks about the difference between the conditional love that we currently experience, and the real, higher kind of love that our hearts long for, which can only be realized by loving and living in the present moment.

One of the most shocking and necessary discoveries along the path is that what we love does not love us. We are filled all the time with powerful feelings and emotions that seem to lift or otherwise provide purpose and self-worth. It is not too much to say that most of these inner states are lies -- hopelessly incomplete of themselves, and seeking completion in some secret opposite that they g...

I turned down a lucrative movie deal for a script i wrote because their was no "love" in the dealings even though i write comedies about trying to live in Truth. what i want to know is if mr. finley has any audio talks or podcasts where he talks about love and business. one fellow tried to tell me it's separate and tried to convince me i was wacko arty girl. i'm not buying it anymore in my sea...

I love the truth but, truth be told, I struggle every day of my life to remember it in moments I really need to! Though I don't like the thought, lately I'm beginning to think that maybe my relationship with Truth/Light is more imagined than real, but I'm in the dark about this! Any comments? (From student correspondence)...

I was wondering if you could share with us how you got started in creating the Life of Learning Foundation? I have thought about starting something similar, and would appreciate your advice.

Welcome the following list of 25 largely invisible, and therefore mostly unrealized actions of love. Please note, as part of your study, the contrast between what Love IS... and what Love never does because its Divine nature is incapable of contradicting itself...

Classroom Talk: 9/8/2002 - What makes someone a master is not that he or she possesses some unattainable skill, but that these individuals have first realized the existence of, and then made contact with, a world above them that wants to pour its more perfected understanding into their own.

Anything that currently darkens our lives can be met with higher understanding within us, so that it is properly placed into the greater order of things and becomes a part of the eternal "I Am." That means that every form, every encounter, every moment, no matter what it is, has the capacity to cleanse a human being of the impurity that wants to name the moment as being corrupt or wrong.