There are parts of us that would rather be punished by unkind people than have to spend one minute being alone, because the only way these same parts in us can exist is if they have someone to resent or somehow fear. In this case we remain in these ruinous relationships because the fear or emptiness we feel in even considering leaving them seems to be too much to bear on our own. Here's the k...

Patience is power because it compassionately rules over whatever parts of us are moved to act against ourselves... or others.

No one wants to be touched by the hand of suffering, so millions spend billions trying to outrun its cold touch. And yet, these are the unwise for a very unseen reason: into every life must come some rain, for without it what else can a heart become other than a desert that never blooms?...

Those who turn and run away, who quit when life asks of them more than they seem to have in that hour, prove real only their fears -- and this is their sorrow. But let us press on past our doubts to make this glad discovery: the reason we mustn't give in is because persistence alone proves that Life never gives up on us; what we hope for is nothing compared to the hope that Real Life holds for us.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 7, 2015. Part 1: The tension of creation is reconciled by the awareness of it. Part 2: Awareness of the opposites reveals higher possibilities that don't even exist to our lower level of self whose imagined sense of individuality is but a fleeting dream... an illusion born of being momentarily identified with one or the other of the opposites...

Guy Finley's monthly call-in radio show, Guy Finley LIVE! Topics covered: We must learn to use our actual lives, moment to moment, to work on ourselves and our freedom; All disturbances are meant to reveal where we are out of life's flow; You cannot and must not protect yourself from unwanted moments; There is no such thing as an unproductive moment; Events that take place in passing time are...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of August 22, 2016. The more some thought or feeling prompts you to rush, or pushes you to run toward a place where some anticipated rest awaits, the more you should work to slow down that you might see -- 'I' to 'I' -- the unconscious level of self that -- with one hand -- points to a 'peace just ahead'... even as its other hand is stirring up a sense o...

Topic: Suicide & Addiction: The Untold Truth About the Path to Self-Destruction (6/10/18 Classroom Talk)...

Topic: Suicide & Addiction: The Untold Truth About the Path to Self-Destruction (6/10/18 Classroom Talk)...

Whatever it is that we wish to let go of must be something from which we wish to be free. This may be unpleasant or troubling relationships, a problem-filled past or fearful future, any form of addiction, recent painful events -- or any of those disturbing thoughts and feelings about these same troubling things that we no longer want in our lives. The truth is that troubles like these come wi...

Mistaking intruders for welcome guests in your inner home is not nearly as uncommon as you may think. Isn't it true that each of us knows firsthand this everyday experience? One minute you're walking along without a care in the world, and the next minute you feel as though you're carrying the entire world on your back! Your inner home, where you really live, has been temporarily...

The way we think of ourselves is a reflection of our past; Learn to live with what you see; Ideas are not action, knowledge is not wisdom; You suffer over your present understanding; Love never interferes with another person's life; All of your actions have ambition in them; There is no reaction without position; You are here to outgrow a level of consciousness; Real acts of will...