Student Talks: 11/4/2022 - Key Lesson: There is a proportionate and direct relationship between the degree of an inconsolable pain -- some form of disquiet that's pretty much our daily companion -- and misunderstanding the real purpose of this life we have been given.

There is a time, a purpose, and a place for everything under the Sun, and Peace finds the one who knows this place.

There is a time, a purpose, and a place for everything under the sun, and Peace finds the one who knows this place.

Classroom Talk: 5/5/2003 - May 5th, 2003 special talk at Bloomsbury Books in Ashland, Oregon. Topics discussed include desire, mindfulness, life is relationship, pain, and the purpose of life.

Topics covered: You are not intended to get around, to escape from, difficult moments; Until you understand the consciousness that reacts to difficult moments, your experience of life will continue to be unwanted; It is impossible to embrace a difficult moment until you gain some insight into the purpose of that moment; Resistance is identifying with what the mind interprets as being a threat.

Part I: Following a path of false purposes leads us to a life filled with empty promises whose imagined pleasures soon give way to real enough punishments. Part II: The pure clean waters of a stone-lined mountain stream are about as attractive to a mud hen as are beams of sunlight to a cave-dwelling bat. So it is with human beings, for it is where we dwell inwardly that tells the truth...

Topics covered: Discussion of Guy's book, The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred and the OneJourney Project; Spiritual ideas contain timeless similarities; Divine dissatisfaction produces the seeker which ultimately seeks itself; Use life to discover truths about yourself; Don't fear any limitations imposed on you; Man is a living creation of celestial energies; Everything has a purpose - be part...

Until we learn the one Great Lesson that what we want from life must play a secondary role to what Life asks of us -- which is to grow in the timeless qualities of selflessness such as self-sacrifice, kindness, and love -- then we will remain unable to share in the abiding sense of peace and freedom that comes to us only as we realize the true purpose of our being.

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how we are all intended to understand the purpose of this life, which is to be a conscious participant in the moment-to-moment unfolding of this present moment.

Topics Covered: Find the Place in This World That's Made Just for You; I feel like a complete failure and wonder if my life serves any purpose; I'm struggling to understand why my life feels so un-lived; What can I do to lessen the pain from a traumatic childhood; How do I deal with the loss of all close family, friends, and community; I feel like I am on a hamster wheel and cannot get off...

Topics covered: We are not intended to be like anyone else; Discovering one's self is the journey; There is a higher order not subject to passing time; Sensing we are here for a purpose; Why we are drawn to certain things; Life is a process of revelation; Being 100% honest with yourself; Getting in touch with your true feelings; No one has the power they pretend to have; Changing your painful...

Classroom Talk: 8/18/2002 - Part 1: Enlightenment is not knowledge of the whole universe, but to live in communion with its perfect design and divine purpose. Part 2: To be empowered to act upon what we know is True and Good for us requires being present to ourselves in the moment of being tempted to make choices that have proven themselves to be unproductive or even self-destructive; so that the first step in finding and living the Truthful Life comes...