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...

The reason we resist virtually all endings in our life--wherein we feel as though something has been wrongfully taken away from us--is because these same unwanted moments leave us feeling terribly empty inside ourselves. In truth, it is this overwhelming sense of emptiness that we detest, and not the changing condition itself that we so habitually protest. So when things..."

Student Talks: 10/13/2023 - Key Lesson: No peace appears outside of, or apart from the disturbance that conceals it, and no disturbance appears outside of, or apart from the peace that reveals it. They are inseparable celestial characters, each surrendering itself to become the other... in a ceaseless, seamless Divine act of creation.

Classroom Talk: 5/11/2005 - Pleasure always outruns the grasp of the pain that imagines it.

Classroom Talk: 1/31/2021 - The more we will deliberately work to take time out of our day to remember -- and embrace -- what we know is Timeless and True, the more aware we will become of an Indwelling Light whose perfect grace reveals the means and the way to be made new... and new again.

Classroom Talk: 12/9/2020 - Never forget the truth that follows, and freedom is nearer than you think: no real spiritual effort is ever in vain, even when we're given to see -- as result of our inner work -- some low estate into which we've temporarily fallen. In turn, always remember: the great ocean into which the waters of a river...

Noted author Guy Finley and Dr. Ellen Dickstein, PhD., have an illuminating discussion on what prohibits us from knowing more peace in our lives. Learn the little known secrets of what you can do, on a daily basis, to disarm stressful states, and step into a more peaceful life.

We are never further away from the True Peace we seek as when we look outside of ourselves for a place to rest.

Classroom Talk: 5/29/2022 - When it comes to developing a living relationship with the Divine, good intentions cost nothing, which is why the road to hell is paved with useless coins. On the other hand, making conscious efforts comes with the cost of encountering the reality of our present level of being; of seeing what we are actually capable of doing, and what we are not...

Exercise: "Be at peace." When you hear something in you say, "be anxious, be worried, be afraid" -- choose to be at peace instead. This is what it means to "choose to be chosen." Inside of you lives a conscience, a Real I that is peace itself, that knows that everything is as it should be Now. If you will just let the moment be as it is, you will be a part of the peace that is inherent in life...

Classroom Talk: 12/07/2025 - What you understand, you command; what you don’t understand commands you.

Discover what it means to awaken to your true purpose in life. Join best-selling self-realization author Guy Finley as he reveals the lessons we must learn on our journey to living with true Peace in our heart...