Why is it so important to be awake? Isn't it actually a kind of self-centeredness to always have my attention on myself? No, it isn't a selfish act...far from it. The answer is that in the Truly awake state, there is no thinking about oneself at all. God's Life is revealed in the moment. The present moment holds everything--bliss, pain, light, dark, and everything in between. When a human bei...

The first step to breaking out of any rut in life is to no longer enable the parts of us that keep walking in them while wishing they weren't so deep! Learning to watch our own thoughts and feelings -- to be quietly attentive to what the mind is attending to in each moment -- ensures that we won't fall into these ditches, because our heightened level of attention keeps them from being dug! We...

Every moment is the preparation, passage, and the experience of the path created for you through life by your choices in each moment.

Once we realize that whatever we will bring into our awareness has always been an aspect of our own consciousness, only not yet awakened to, we also understand this liberating truth: nothing exists outside of us. All destinations are already within us, including the Love we are searching for and the unconditional freedom that It alone has the power to grant.

As paradoxical as it seems, the reason most of us find no lasting peace in life is because our mind is forever trying to find something outside itself in which it can rest. This condition is not unlike the little fish that, unhappy with just swimming around, went in search of water -- its hope being that if it could find what it was looking for then it would also find what was missing from i...

Classroom Talk: 4/18/2021 - Being able to realize, and then release one's resistance to any unwanted moment does more than help to change the "dark tide" of that event; it reveals that within us already dwell the untroubled "waters" of a celestial harbor: the timeless shelter of an eternal Self that becomes the same as our own...

Most of us don't understand the nature of time and our place within it, and so we know nothing of timelessness, save for those rare instances when we encounter transcendent beauty and are transported out of our usual train of thought in time, into the timeless.

Student Talks: 4/23/2021 - Key Lesson: Being able to realize, and then release one's resistance to any unwanted moment does more than help to change the "dark tide" of that event; it reveals that within us already dwell the untroubled "waters" of a celestial harbor: the timeless shelter of an eternal Self that becomes the same as our own...

Topics Covered: Something higher is always trying to reach us from a part of us that we do not yet realize is already there; Patterns can't change themselves. Anytime we try to break a pattern on its own level, all that we end up doing is strengthening the pattern. In that way we are complicit in the continuation of painful patterns; Unwanted moments seem to stand in the way of what...

In this short talk, Guy Finley explains how each moment of life is made for anyone and everyone who is present to it. If you are not in this moment, you are not alive within the life that gives this moment, which is a vital expression of a timeless presence.

Part I: Life itself has never weighed-in so heavily upon us as to hurt us; rather it is we who -- in ignorance of reality -- carelessly attribute weight to events that are essentially without substance, causing ourselves to suffer nothing less than the fervent magnitude of our own imagination. Part II: The degree to which we feel ourselves confined by any circumstance in life is directly...