Topics covered: Nothing that's talking to you about you is you; Discerning prayer to escape myself vs. wishing to be a doer of the Word; Anything you do to escape your condition increases your relationship to it; The mind that creates a problem can only meet it by trying to escape it; Love is the right way to pray towards God; God knows what you want, so why don't you let him give it to you; G...

A silent prayer to make the world a better and brighter place: Please help me to never turn my back on those who have turned their back on me.

The reason for monasteries was to maintain a certain type of energetic state through prayer, so there could be a continual door between heaven and earth.

In taking thought, always thinking about what one must do, or have... one never stops asking to "become." But, in remaining awake -- aware of one's thoughts, instead of driven by them -- one asks, "to be"... and this living prayer is always answered.

Topics Covered: The first shall be last, and the last shall be first; Judgment of yourself is the continuation of karma; Don't try to be calm, be present to the storm; Realization is the release from the identity from of resistance; Each moment is a perfect mirror; To be spiritual is to see; Genuine prayer comes from seeing, not from wanting; Separating the wheat from the chaff...

Exercise given after Guy Finley's 12/30/12 talk 'Walk Out of the Wilderness of the Illusory Self.' Invite the wish to stay awake. Each time you come back to yourself, note that you were in the wilderness. Then strengthen your wish with the prayer, 'Father, stay with me.'...

Topics covered: What is true prayer; How does intercessory prayer fit in with this work; I'm confused about how to combine my spiritual and professional lives; My relationship with my friend has changed now that she's on psychiatric medications; How can I be sure my intentions are true and not just another 'want'; How can we best help others to achieve worldly excellence while not promoting th...

The feel of fresh understanding, an infusion of light; the sweet flood of a new knowing pouring into and integrating one's soul, familiarizing it with its own forgotten wholeness and perfected peace. This is our hope in prayer: To become one with the Living Light whose dawning opens the doorway to the Divine.

Topics covered: The value of personal prayer; How do we stay present; Are disturbances the same as sensations; How do I handle a confrontational situation; I feel inadequate to overcome my negative states; What is undivided awareness; Is it true that any sense of 'I' is false; Why was I born; I've noticed that past memories don't bother me as much as they used to; Interpretation of Christ's wo...

We have in us, the way we are, this idea that somehow or other we are going to be the ones who make the world that we see work. This notion runs very deep and is strengthened in us, in part, by what is its partial truth. So we're very reluctant to see that for all of these years, and all of the things that we've been doing -- with ourselves and for ourselves -- that every other day we still se...

The first part of these new lessons in learning to live from your Higher Self and the prayer exercises that attend them is that the next time you feel yourself becoming agitated, simply notice what idea are you connected to? Look how simple that is, if you'll do it. Here is one small example. You are driving down the street and you notice that you're feeling depressed. Or maybe you're feeli...

In this Saturday discussion Guy explains that we are not the creators of love, but rather the instruments of love through which God seeks Himself. Our biggest problem as human beings is that we are completely separate from the true mystery of life and instead seek to complete ourselves through our unreconcilable desires. The only way real change can take place within us is when we agree to exc...