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.

With regards to suffering, our pain hurts a little less whenever we can remember this strange (but true) spiritual fact: many of God's greatest gifts seem, at first, unbearable to receive.

The "arm-chair" spiritual explorer never discovers he wanders only in his imagination, even though he suffers his way through a self-created world filled with fearful imagined conditions and their relentless predators.

Before it's possible to get on with the real business of spiritual rebirth, we must be fully convinced that no dark discontentment with ourselves can ever be the seed of a new self.

Whatever we resist within ourselves rules us in our spiritual sleep, while whatever we're willing to reveal to ourselves, about ourselves, is ruled over by the true intelligence inherent in awakened self-awareness.

One of our deepest spiritual longings is to be able to face, without fear, whatever trouble comes our way because the strength we need to do so is already a part of who we are.

Classroom Talk: 9/19/2003 - Here is how to receive a gift from Life greater than can be told: never again give to another person any thought or feeling that you wouldn't want to keep for yourself.

Remastered Classic Talk: 1/18/17 - Action without knowledge is reckless at best, and is almost always dangerous to everyone involved. Knowledge without action is useless at best, and guarantees that the individual who is "inclined to recline" will remain in the realm of the sleeping intellect.

There is a story in the New Testament in which Christ emphatically throws upside-down the tables of the money-changers in the temple. And yet Christ was (and is) the representation of a beneficent, compassionate, and loving intelligence -- love thine enemies -- judge not lest ye be judged. How does one reconcile Christ's edict of "love thine enemies" with the fact of the over-throwing of the m...

In any relationship . . . the one who is hurt most by the absence of compassion is the one in whom compassion is absent.

Remastered Classic Talk: 6/14/17 - Being renewed by Life, and beginning your life all over again are one and the same interior action: it starts with becoming aware of, and then bringing a conscious end to all lingering relationships you may have with old thoughts and feelings that want you to keep seeing your life through their eyes.

Topics covered: The soul refers to the part of us that links heaven and earth; The only way to have it all is to be nothing; The only reason a person lies is because they're afraid; Fear produces a threat; No negative state should ever be justified; Practicing ceaseless prayer; The father of deceit is the progenitor of fear; Any man or woman who ever found out anything about the divine did so...