Any lingering form of painful psychological resistance to some unwanted experience of life is the unconscious rejection of spiritual atonement.

Classroom Talk: 10/6/2004 - Not wanting events to unfold as they do often feels like a measure of control over unwanted moments, but any negative reaction to reality is only an unseen form of self-punishment and not the rescuing power we mistake it to be. The only thing our resistance to life adds to us is the weight of a self-induced suffering born of a needless worry. 

Classroom Talk: 9/12/2003 - Once we understand how to use them... life's many unwanted twists and turns are no longer seen as being just isolated, disjointed experiences under whose yoke we are born to be burdened, but instead are realized as unique opportunities whose rewards are the lessons that can lead us, if we will follow, up to and through the successful education of our soul.

Student Talks: 9/27/2024 - Key Lesson: You are a creation of the Deep; drawn to explore not just an unknowable mystery, but to take an unimaginable journey into the depths of an unnameable Being...and all without having to take a single step outside of yourself.

Topics covered: It requires resistance to keep imagination real; The difference between higher and lower emotion; Lower emotion is the illegitimate child of a reaction; In higher emotion there is a sense of oneness, not 'I'; Real love bears all things; The more pure the impression, the more clear the action; There's nothing uglier than someone clinging to something; Attachments are an extensio...

The key ingredients of spiritual bread – a measure of which all are needed to ensure it rises –– are right intention, extra effort, and wise persistence.

Trying to escape the painful effects of spiritual ignorance is like hoping to lose your shadow by running away from the sun.

In this short talk, Guy Finley explains that if we will stop agreeing to "feed" the parts of us that produce unnecessary pain, then gradually those parts will stop growing.

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the true reward that comes with being willing to stand within what the light of awareness wants to reveal to us about ourselves.

Without the work it takes to actualize them, spiritual realizations are as useless as a plow without a horse to harness its power.

There can be no spiritual lesson learned from any painful moment when one's suffering is only over the loss of some imagined gain.

One of the supreme laws governing the inner path is that we succeed because we are spiritually willing, not because we're spiritually able.