Topics covered: Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future; Nothing in the universe can stand in the way of you changing; No psychological fear exists without negative imagination; Resistance is the real cause of what is wrecking you; Man is intended to outgrow any negative state; Learn to recognize what is a part of you and what is not; Why are we drawn to nature and beauty...

Resisting the revelation of any existing limitation is like resenting the ocean because you never learned how to swim!

Resisting the revelation of any personal limitation... is like resenting the ocean because you never learned how to swim!

The real reason people remain captives of unwanted circumstances in their lives is because they've yet to realize this great spiritual secret: Resistance is negative attraction. In other words: the longer we dwell on what we don't want in life, the larger grows that dark dwelling place in which we find ourselves living.

It is impossible to hold an enemy in our heart and know, at the same time, the Love that lends the heart its wholeness -- its capacity to consider the suffering of others, without which there is no compassion.

The true nature of anything -- whether a newly opened leaf or a fearful thought or feeling -- is inseparable from what it serves.

Every destructive act ever committed against oneself or another -- every self-wrecking habit, every dark decision that ever caused the earth or her creatures to suffer -- began with a single false thought mistaken as being true.

Just as it's true of all tempests in nature, psychological storms must pass too; but those who run from their troubles run with them, which is why -- wherever they go -- a storm awaits their arrival.

Informal discussion between Guy Finley and students at Life of Learning Foundation.

Things go wrong in life. They just do. And sometimes downturns feel like they'll never get back to right-side up. Life is like that. So what! What we have been given is not what makes us who we are: the true measure of our soul's success is what we make with what we are given.

Any sorrow, resentment, or anxiety brought over and into the living now can only be an echo of some event now past.

In each moment of life we must choose to take the upward path, or we lose the opportunity to rise above the parts of ourselves that like to fall down.