Since what other people do to you is not in your power to change, you need only concern yourself with what you do to yourself, for that is in your power.

Remastered Classic Talk: 4/19/17 - There are some things in this life -- in this world of passing time, governed as it is by the illusion of opposites -- that cannot grow up side-by-side; by their nature, the lion and the lamb never lay down together. So it is with love and self-pride, for love of self denies obedience... While love demands it.

There is a story in the New Testament in which Christ emphatically throws upside-down the tables of the money-changers in the temple. And yet Christ was (and is) the representation of a beneficent, compassionate, and loving intelligence -- love thine enemies -- judge not lest ye be judged. How does one reconcile Christ's edict of "love thine enemies" with the fact of the over-throwing of the m...

Part 1: What is that first, faint intuition of something Greater than ourselves, other than the Herald of the Heart quietly announcing the existence of a whole new level of being above us -- and asking us -- at the same time, if we will prepare ourselves to receive it. Part 2: Just as tumbling leaves in the wind makes the wind visible, so does the need of someone -- that stirs the heart of...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of July 28, 2014. We want to be free of negative states, but refuse to bear our share in carrying the weight of them, a necessary act of self-sacrifice that is the mandatory interim stage between being burdened by the false self... and being set free from it.

In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley provides some insights into how there can be resentment, antagonism, and hostility between two people who claim to love each other.

Part 1: Whatever we seek in this world to confirm our sense of self, the same serves to corrupt us. Should you doubt this, just become aware of your compulsive need to constantly be assured that whatever "kingdom" you've created for yourself...

The only way a man or woman will ever know a life without conflict is when they see the Love behind everything that happens -- not by imagination, but through direct participation, recognition. There is never a moment that God's will isn't actually pouring down on us in one shape or form of energy or another. It is never not taking place, which means that we can always be in alignment with a g...

We can either continue clinging, in vain, to (all of) those relationships in life upon which the false self fearfully depends (in order to exist)... Or we must shoulder up our faith in the Divine -- hold to our hope in its unspoken promise -- and dare to let go of all that we've been, or have been trying to become. There is no other way to know a Love that never fears, falters, or betrays.

There is never a point in the passage of time when entropy and chaos moves against its own flow. However, there is a point within Time itself, the "body" from out of which appears all that moves, where Peace may be found.

There is never a point in the passage of time when entropy and chaos moves against its own flow. However, there is a point within Time itself, the "body" from out of which appears all that moves, where Peace may be found.

Part I. Spending our time in quiet contemplation of the Truth, or simply practicing being still so as to discern the Divine within ourselves, is the same as finding answers to problems before they appear. Part II. The love of creatures is sensation, and sensation is nature moved by the sight of herself. But God is beyond nature and is un-sensible, which means that one must withdraw from al...