Topics Covered: There exists a freedom that can't be won through struggle; Everything that is whole is unspeakable, and cannot be fully comprehended by the intellect; What one thing in our life always shows up unannounced and ruins any moment in which it appears? The answer is: negative reactions; The pain of not wanting a moment IS the pain we experience in that moment...

Topics Covered: True teachings awaken the aspirant to what already lives in them; Freedom is an inclusive state, never an exclusive one; The one thing we almost never doubt is the certainty that we feel when we are negative; the certainty is that the cause of the negativity is somewhere outside of ourselves; Whatever we resist has to first be judged and found to be wrong...

Topics Covered: When it comes to taking sides on controversial issues, we want to be for something that sits above the two; You will never get over inferiority by seeking superiority; Attention is developed to allow you to remain in higher interior ground; Understanding (with a capital U) is Freedom; We suffer from spiritual shortsightedness; Thought is the instrument of a level of desire; A s...

Topics Covered: Discussion of the lunch exercise to be aware of your feet on the floor; Thought is not in your head; Our sense of self is almost always an anxious one; You experience the perceiver, not the perceived; All postures approximate states; In a sleeping human being, all I's are an expression of an unconscious feeling; All real freedom begins with self-knowledge received and understoo...

Topics covered: You have to be more in love with what you're discovering than what your mind is giving you to discover; The collapse of a civilization is inevitable; You can't legislate the inalienable right to freedom; Man-made laws come out of principles but are not the principles themselves; Life ceaselessly creates a center point; The secret of an awakened life; The restoration of identity...

Life of Learning Foundation founder and director Guy Finley explains that the beginning of freedom is in the awareness of our inner captivity. The full replay of this class is available in Life of Learning Foundation's Online Wisdom School, GuyFinleyNow.org, where you can join other true aspirants from around the world as we work to invite higher understanding into our lives. Members of the on...

Freedom from regret, hate, anxiety, and rage -- and making useless excuses for being compromised by these negative states -- begins as we stand in the light of this rescuing realization: unwanted moments, whatever their nature, do not cause the pain we find in them; rather, they serve to reveal a level of our consciousness already in pain, and looking for something to blame for it.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 23, 2018. If attending to, and then surrendering oneself to the will of the Divine fulfills the highest possible purpose of one's real life -- and one works inwardly, as faithfully as one can to live this understanding -- then slowly, but surely appears a new kind of freedom...

Topics Covered: If you are against something you cannot change; The opposites are secretly complimentary; You can't win freedom, you can only be free; You can't judge without resistance; Avoidance is the continuation of the consciousness that resists; We are not our thoughts and feelings; No one is free who worships an image or an icon; All understanding is in scale...

Persist with your wish to be free; work to see all that you can about yourself, and then quietly watch what happens. Whatever appears before your inner eyes does so as part of what you need to see in order to realize that freedom for which you have asked. Never forget this truth... and your spiritual progress will be steady.

The fall of fear begins with our heightened awareness of fear's presence. Out of this higher level of self-consciousness comes something as mysterious as it is grand: the spiritual intolerance of fear. This deep, nonnegotiable disdain for fear comes to us in advance of the powers we need to win our freedom from it. And the arrival of this supreme strength -- that ultimately leads to lasting...

What are your teachings on spiritual immortality, the afterlife, and reincarnation? (From student correspondence)...