The most simple spiritual lessons are often the highest ones and, as it turns out, the most difficult ones for us to learn because of a certain law that governs the realization of any truth: In order to receive something high we must become low and simple, a state of self that is repugnant to all within us that considers itself mighty and wise.

The real source of the discontentment we feel in life is with our present level of understanding -- and not with what that understanding has brought to us. Life is not a series of conditions, but a manifestation of mind in Mind; our actual experience - moment to moment - is a question of consciousness, not circumstance.

Christ said, 'I come with a sword, not to bring peace.' These talks, this material is sowing the seed of a great discontent. You are judged, in a manner of speaking, by...

Without the indwelling presence of an eternal Christ -- in whose radiance is made apparent the shadows that we have taken to be our self -- we couldn't see, never really comprehend the difference between spiritual darkness and light; we'd be unable to differentiate between weakness and strength... Let alone be willing to surrender ourselves to that Light wherein abides a new order of Love, uno...

Within each discovery, by each revelation of the reality underlying our present level of self, we are brought to a crossroads on our journey to the Kingdom of Truth. The road on the left, of resistance to what is revealed, leads to denial -- and the eventual death of our spiritual possibilities. The Right Road is realization -- which leads to the conscious suffering of humiliation, followe...

Part 1 Here's a great spiritual paradox: the more willing we are to awaken to -- attend, and consciously suffer -- (our) human weakness, the more we are endowed with the Divine strength needed to transcend it. Part 2 The more we will learn to shoulder -- consciously struggle with -- the weight of any trying moment... by stepping up, and into whatever that responsibility our awarene...

Self-discovery -- and the new self-knowledge it generates -- has no limitations, no moment where there isn't the possibility for something higher to pierce the soul and so reveal that everything that once was is no more because something greater now stands there. This means that there is no end to what is higher, to what is ever-above you; and that the ground of this immeasurable state of sel...

All relationships suffer when stagnation sets in; whether in a pond or our personal dealings with others, everything must be continually refreshed in order to realize its true potential. For us this means each re-appearance of some old resentment, fear, or regret, chokes the life out of our chance to love one another, which is our spiritual responsibility. What's so hard for us to understand i...

Part 1 To everything there is a season, and life's great cycles of expansion and contraction – of yes and no – serve no individual save the one who has uncovered the secret of being in the world, but not of it. Part 2 Spiritual truths may be grasped by the intellect, but to place oneself in the hands of the divine–to know it's inimitable freedom–takes no mind.

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how a true change of character can be realized by seeing with great clarity what it is that we value most.

The only reason we ever feel stuck between the proverbial "rock and a hard place" -- unable to see a way to get out -- is because we've forgotten this simple spiritual truth: There's always another direction waiting to reveal itself to us whenever we'll work to remember (it)... one that leads us above the illusion that we're stuck between painful opposites: This new direction (for us) to look.

Part 1: False certainty is a fool's certainty: it is based in the illusion that the more strongly we feel about any given moment -- in particular, the more negative we are over whatever may have transpired -- proves not only the truth of our unique perception... but also why we're so certain that whatever conclusion we reach goes well beyond the measure of any doubt. Part 2: The reason that it...