The present level of mind that we are experiencing on this planet today does not have command of its own attention. The world you see around you is being created by a level of desire that creates the conditions that it needs to flourish. It creates outwardly what it needs to sustain a consistent denial of the divine. The problem is that we think that somehow we were the ones who created this l...

One way or another, we all suffer over things that we can't stop doing to ourselves or to others. Adding to the conflict inherent in self-compromising behaviors is the fact that it's frustrating beyond belief since most of us (in some way) have built a business, worked, and succeeded in some place - won accolades, impressed our friends - and we've weathered storms.

Real Life does not prey upon us; it is our unconscious desires that drag us down and that denigrate the moment, making of us little more than "fast food" for an unappeasable appetite.

We must learn to look out at life with more than just our eyes. We must find out what it means to see with our heart, and to look at all of life's events through an awakened mind not blinded by selfish and self-limiting desires. As we learn what it means to see life with all of us doing the looking, we will also make the Great Discovery that Life has been trying to show us all along: just...

Part I: No animal hides in shame for being itself. No tree bends to the opinion of others. No wind avoids the granite face before it; only human beings cultivate ways in which to cower before one another, and all for the sake of winning nothing other than a fleeting feeling that for their cunning they have either stayed the tide of something unwanted or have momentarily won the obje...

In this question and answer exchange with an online viewer, "letting go" author Guy Finley answers the following question: Could you please comment about the relationship between human condition and divine order in us?

All negative emotions, but especially anger, are the offspring of one dark state...a frustrated desire that would rather set fire to the object, person, or condition seen as being at fault, then turn around and see itself for what it is in reality: the unseen source of its own suffering.

A great poem, a timeless stanza of thought, a true writing that stirs and swells the heart; what are these precious forms save a moment of Love plucked from Time to stand as testimony to a perfection briefly remembered as the living foundation of all things. The poet is presented the proposal, the moment where the Great Pain beckons him to marriage. He is awakened from a slumber to answer th...

Classroom Talk: 2/7/2003 - The stress we feel over our possessions or in our relationships -- that sneaks in to steal our contentment -- is never because of the way in which these things (themselves) are made to turn, but it is the dark effect of how tightly we cling to the idea that our desires have the power to grant us peace.

Before you can hope to attend to anything higher than the passing powers, pleasures, and pains of this earth, an awareness of the heavens must be awakened within you; these kingdoms, and all of their new possibilities are already in (your) Presence, but both go virtually unseen due to a certain kind of blindness produced by the constant press of unconscious desire.

Real spiritual poverty, and the wealth of Real Life it fosters in the soul, is a subtle interior state born of the humility in seeing this one fact about ourselves: In our un-regenerated state we live from a conditioned and comparative mind whose infinite desires confine the self to live in a closed circle of infinite wants.

Classroom Talk: 8/2/2002 - We must learn to look out at life with more than just our eyes. We must find out what it means to see with our heart, and to look at all of life's events through an awakened mind not blinded by selfish and self-limiting desires. As we learn what it means to see life with all of us doing the looking, we will also make the Great Discovery that Life has been trying to show us all along: just how Good, how whole and compassionate...