Much of our time in this life is spent waiting for something to happen. There are times when waiting is inescapable -- waiting in traffic, waiting in line at the grocery store, waiting for an appointment -- but we can be attending to a higher world while we are waiting in this one. We are intended to know what it means to wait within ourselves even as we are waiting in the exterior world. Wai...
Do you feel like something is missing from your life? We have all felt like that to one degree or another. Yes, there are days when things seem to go well, but if we are honest with ourselves we know that there are not many good days, and as a result there is an incessant searching that is always going on. What is it that we are searching for? The unseen, unanswered need that every human bein...
10 Exercises for increasing your spiritual memory. Remember that every effort you make to remember to remember God increases His interest in you.
There is an unseen source of daily suffering that is the constant companion of humanity. It is in one respect one of the great driving forces behind the darkness that encompasses this planet -- the unremitting wars, the violence, the greed, the fear, the desperation -- all the things we see in the world around us...
We fear our weaknesses... when the right relationship we should have with them is to recognize and receive their appearance (within us) as emissaries of a spiritual strength yet to be realized.
The true interior, spiritual life is not for people looking for ways to be happy; it's for those who have started to realize that they've never known the real nature of happiness.
The true measure of your spiritual development is tested by where you are and how you work inwardly in these moments, and not by how much you don't want to be there.
Classroom Talk: 9/5/2003 - No animal hides in shame for being itself. No tree bends to the opinion of others. No wind avoids the granite face before it. Only human beings cultivate ways in which to fawn or cower before one another, and all for the sake of winning nothing but a fleeting feeling that for their cunning they have made it through one more day.
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Guy Finley explains how weakness that is within us resists and judges the weakness in others, and how we can use that negative force of judgment to realize the oneness that already exists.