Student Talks: 4/2/2021 - Key Lesson: If it feels like the same unwanted moments keep coming around... think again: reality never repeats itself; creation is always new. To know why life seems to repeat itself -- and painfully so -- we need look no farther than to see how instantly identified we become with our (own) recurring negative reactions.

The present moment is the door of perception -- and if, when you look through it, you see something you recognize -- or otherwise think you know -- then all you're really seeing is a reflection of your self upon the mirrored surface of the door. The true door of perception opens... only into the unknown.

I just finished listening to a talk you gave about spiritual debt. I think that I understood most of the talk, but at the very end you say something like: "You pay this debt by instead of trying to produce conditions for yourself that bring love or peace or kindness, you pay in the moment with that which feels incomplete, with that which fears, with that which would seek advantage over others.

Here's a special spiritual exercise designed to develop harmonious human relationships -- it's called the "You-I" Maneuver...

A man is walking through his office when his boss walks by and gives him a blank look. The thought pops into the man's mind that his boss is criticizing him or doesn't like him. Now, as he starts to fear this idea -- a negative picture produced by his imagination -- his mind focuses its attention on this disturbing image. And the more he attends to this dark dream, the further into its labyrin...

We cannot change, control, or be stronger than anything our mind says is outside of us. But we can be inwardly awake, conscious of the fact that we don't need to be stronger than what we see because we aren't really separate from what we see.

Any human being who has to hold himself together is someone who is ready to fall apart. Trying to hold yourself together is a terrible way to go through life. Our task is to prove this to ourselves. The fears of falling apart can never be quieted by adding more pieces to your self, such as success or the hopes of success. With this approach to life you wear out faster, because you now have eve...

Question: A shift in consciousness is predicted and needed on our planet. What do you think this shift will be and what will it bring? Answer: First of all, it is not a global shift. Even though there may be global instances and I'm not going to discount the possibility of that. The true shift is the shift in we as individuals. And the shift in individuals, unfortunately, at this poin...

Question: Many paths emphasize the importance of balance and alignment. Can you comment on what it means to be "aligned"? Answer: Real alignment would be the ability of an individual to participate in life as it's happening. We have a mindset that starts falsely from a comparative basis. So when we hear the word "alignment" we think to ourselves as a positive outcome, in the flow. And when we...

Do you think for a moment that God is ever disappointed with the moment that He has made? Your personal unhappiness is because you are disappointed with yourself. In reality, who you really are is not apart -- not separate from -- the moment that God has made. The moment and you are the same thing. Whenever you can catch anything in you that feels disappointment or discouragement, drop it ins...

Where is my attention? Guy Finley explains why this is an important question. The resistance I feel when things don't go the way I want them to go isn't resistance to what's happening but to my unseen expectations of how I think things should be. Then my mind connects my attention to my body, and my body literally becomes a mirror of that internal conflict.

Classroom Talk: 6/13/2021 - Part 1: You can't be "no one." The choice is to be someone defined and confined by the limitation of thought, or to be (the) One who sees and realizes – without having to think about it – that (the) true Self is indefinable. Part 2: Awakening to the truth of Self starts with this understanding, and then daring to act on it...