Yesterday was Thursday, June 18, 2009, and here at the Foundation in Merlin, Oregon, it was the second day of our annual Talks in the Pines. It occurred to me that some of you might like to read the key lesson prepared for this talk. So, here it is: Without our unconscious consent, regardless of what we may have done against others, or ourselves, the past is powerless to punish us in the pre...
When you want to know the powers that circulate through a quiet mind, you must take yourself to that place where this silent strength can make itself known to you. To go quiet, you must go within.
Part 1 Behind every expectation that we have for how we should be treated by others lurks the inevitable sense of feeling betrayed by them any time they fail to hit their assigned mark. Behind this disappointment in their character or demeanor -- in fact, its partner in this kind of discrimination -- dwells an unseen sense of righteousness based on a false assumption that we are nothing l...
Our work, in terms of reclaiming our right as human beings to be in relationship with what we choose to be in relationship with, begins with being able to see that we suffer because choices are made for us. And it's an unnecessary suffering.
These five special insights present the case for -- as well as the cost of -- true Spiritual Independence. Welcome them into your mind and watch how their secret instructions lead you to the unconditional freedom that your heart longs for. To weigh the value of what this world can reward you with -- you need only to remove the scales from your eyes; for were you willing to measure how many t...
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Part 1: Behind every expectation that we have for how we should be treated by others lurks the inevitable sense of feeling betrayed by them any time they fail to hit their assigned mark. Behind this disappointment in their character or demeanor -- in fact, its partner in this kind of discrimination -- dwells an unseen sense of righteousness based on a false assumption that we are nothing like what we are so easily moved to judge.
Part 2: It's always the right time to discover something new and true about our present level of being, even if, in that same moment, what we uncover seems altogether wrong.
Bestselling “Letting Go” author, Guy Finley, will conduct a free live talk on Enlightened Living: Real Life Lessons in Letting Go at the Daytona Beach Regional Library, Florida. If you are in the area, please join us.
The mind asleep to itself is a "divided" mind. One part of us wants what another part of us feels guilty about wanting.
Our experience of life is 100% the reflection of what we understand about our relationship to it...which is why self-knowledge has always been the principle key to the doors of perception; awareness of (the) Truth and the freedom it grants are one thing. Real Life is neither what we call (this) life or (fear about) death...but is the simultaneous ground of both states and, as such, can be re...
It's a little-known secret that our experience of life in any given moment is a direct reflection of what we actually value in that same moment.
Your awareness of troubled thoughts and feelings roaming through you is the power that keeps their harmful and self-limiting influences from having control over you.
The only reason we ever feel trapped by anxious thoughts and feelings is that we just won't let go of the false idea that it takes time to know the strength and happiness of our original wholeness.