Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 21, 2013. If you'll spend the time to hunt down a nuisance rattle in your car because it disrupts the quiet ride you enjoy -- then why won't you take the time to uncover the source of that constant chattering and clattering in your mind, so as to know the silence for which you long?...

Topics covered: Questions from Guy's webinar on procrastination and inertia; What is the relationship between presence and attention; Why is it so easy for me to go along with the divided mind; Does awareness have the ability to comprehend things without thinking; How do I stay grounded during the day when I'm unable to do my spiritual practices in the morning; How do we protect ourselves agai...

ED: Hello. I'm Dr. Ellen Dickstein. I'm here with best-selling inner life author, Guy Finley. Today we're going to talk about how to use inner storms to find perfect peace. Guy, it seems like there are a lot of paradoxes in the spiritual life, but I think they are paradoxes just because we don't see the big picture. One of them that you talk about quite frequently is that we can use inner sto...

Topics covered: You have one problem in life, which is what you don't know about yourself, exacerbated by a part of you that doesn't want to know anything; It is impossible to wish for true revelation and ask to see the truth of yourself without being given the truth you've asked to see; What we are always thinking about is, "How do I reconcile this disturbance I feel right now?" It's the endless quest of a runaway mind...

Topics covered: To say that these are unprecedented times is to forget the fact that human consciousness repeats itself over and over again, which means that the world has been in its current state many times before; Notice that whenever you are thinking about someone that bothers you, you are at war with that person; Whenever you struggle against the clock, in a rush to get somewhere and get things done, you are at war with time...

I can think of no greater encouragement in this life than the self-evident truth that within each of us dwells something Extraordinary. By "Extraordinary" I don't mean any one condition or sensation born of a particularly exciting experience or even the long-awaited realization of some special achievement. The meaning of Extraordinary I wish to convey goes far beyond all such isolated crowni...

Classroom Talk: 6/30/2002 - Part 1: It is not silence that quiets the mind being tormented by its own runaway fragmented thinking, it is the love of silence that both heralds the coming of Peace and that stills the soul whom it wraps in its Perfect Wholeness. Part 2: When you reach out a hand toward a mirror before you, the hand in that mirror may be seen reaching out for you. So it is with the hand of God. Reach for His Life...

Topics covered: Seeing ourselves in others; Discussion about the lunch exercise to change our posture while we ate; There is a nature in us that's drawn to what is dark; It is being that acts -- you do what you are; We want to see what our present level of being is and work to enter into a completely different order of being; In the spiritual world there is no greater limitation than imaginati...

It is our fear of being alone and in doubt, of wanting to feel certain that what we are doing is right, that compels us to seek the approval of others. So this tells us that the chief cause of why our lives so often wind up in the hands of others is not that they are superior or that the world is too strong for us, but that we don't want to face the uncertainty and aloneness we think we are to...

Only consistent, persistent inner-work can lead us to the threshold of the “Truth that sets us free.” And yet, the following is equally true...

Topics covered: Is a thought a living thing; When a spouse is negative, is it okay to point it out to them; I find that when I have an insight my mind can't stop thinking about it; After listening to your talk Refuse to Excuse I'm torn about my work situation; What do I do when a negative state starts to set in; Why do people who have become a master of something typically have problems in the...

Topics covered: You give yourself to what you love; We are drawn to what is active in us; What it means to let go; Understanding can't be acted upon until there's something in you that's able to do it; Love is not in time; Thinking from the pain vs. toward the pain; Learn to love Truth even when you don't know what Truth is; Peace is not the effect of an action; Everything that shows me where...