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...

Topics covered: The old idea of turning base metals into gold is a metaphor for the internal process of turning what is base in a human being into something more valuable; The usual first reaction to any unwanted moment is one of resistance; We don't fear the actual moment, but instead we fear our mind's own interpretation of what the moment means...

Student Talks: 11/08/2024 - Key Lesson: Persistence – without our awareness of the parts of us that steadily insist there’s no further we can go – is a recipe for frustration; this painful sense of self slowly morphs from simple despair into an unholy cynicism that, in turn, serves to confirm what we see as our own unwanted, but unavoidable conclusion: we’ve no other choice but to give up our wish to transcend whatever limitation we’d been called to outgrow.

Topics covered: You are meant to be the master of your interior house, which is a responsibility that you've been given as a gift by the Divine; The spiritual path is not about arriving somewhere imagined or earning a reward. What we are after is entering into a new, higher relationship with life that already exists; Until you build on a foundation that is true, everything that you build will be shaky.

Topics Covered: There is no such thing as a compulsion that is pleasurable; If every solution to our pain has proved to be useless, then the suffering that compelled us to seek the solution was equally useless. Not only are the solutions to our pain false, but so is the "self" that dreams them up; A problem may go away, but the nature that creates the problem does not go away...

In this video, bestselling inner-life author Guy Finley explains how resisting something is the same as placing your attention on the very thing that you say you don't want.

In this short exchange with an online viewer, Guy explains that any avoidance of our inner condition actually solidifies both the condition being resisted and the confused sense of self that is created by that same unconscious resistance. There exists another order of awareness, a place of observation within us that is neither for nor against the condition that is revealed. What we need is simply the revelation of the condition and the consciousness responsible for it.

Topics covered: There is no more important time for you to do your spiritual work than when you least want to do it; The whole of this work is being willing to remember, when you don't want to remember it, that you had set an intention to be a certain type of being now and not later; Spiritual work begins when the question dawns on you: Why are there so many things that can so easily make me negative?

In this short video, Guy explains that whenever we have the painful feeling of being alone, we are actually keeping the company of something within us that is resisting the moment as it is.

Topics Covered: The seed in time reveals what it already is; The seed dies so that the next form of itself can live; Freedom is not a static condition; Freedom is the gradual release from beliefs about what freedom is; The journey is an endless discovery of new levels of freedom; Faith is the ability to see truth in scale; Frustration is the evidence of a misunderstood resistance...

Our lives in these modern times seem to consist of nothing but one problem after another. The level of mind that we live from currently is constantly trying to resolve everything that it sees as a problem. Our minds are often preoccupied with trying to change what we don't want, and so we find ourselves resisting life as it comes to us. But is it actually "me" that does not want my present ci...

Dwelling on any disturbance within you -- with the idea that the more time you spend thinking about it, the less troublesome it will become -- is like trying to knock ants off your picnic table by throwing sugar at them.