When, at times, the spiritual aspirant feels as though there's no reason to go on...because he can no longer believe in an imagined good somewhere ahead of him, he comes to what seems a complete dead end. And yet, it is exactly in this place that he must step through himself, and persist in the work of doing what is right and true simply for the sake of a Goodness yet unknown, barely realized.

Only undivided awareness is fearless in the stream of passing time, because only this level of awareness, undivided, can actually see time -- in all of its temporary manifestations -- as that which passes through it.

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how we must always make an effort to be awake so that we can begin using life's currents and waves for our own interior growth.

Topics Covered: The root of the sleeping consciousness is separation itself; Something has to die for something to be born; The form passes away, but the creator of the form never dies; The responsibility is to be in your body aware of yourself; Don't give a voice what wants to find something to blame for the pain; Darkness is the absence of light, not the proof that light doesn't exist...

Topics covered: Resistance is the principle source of energy; This work isn't here to confirm you; Nobody wants to work continuously when they don't see the value of it; Nothing unknown enters the kingdom; Only the present moment and the presence that gives birth to it is constant -- it is an energetic body that holds the capacity to change everything that comes into it; There's something in u...

Spiritually speaking, blaming life for revealing a limitation of yours is like getting angry at the water in a swimming pool (into which you just fell) because... you never learned how to swim!...

Spiritually speaking, as a required agreement essential in facilitating one's rebirth, one must learn what it means to be at peace with suffering the level of oneself that can never know the peace it seeks.

Here is a great, but unseen, psychological Truth that once realized sets us upon the true spiritual path leading to Real Love and its Perfect Freedom: What frightens us about others is what we want from them; and what we want (from others) is largely what we have imagined is in their power to either give to us, do to us, or withhold from us. And so, whether we live with the fear of our love...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 6, 2014. What we must eventually come to see is that much of our thinking is a 'racket' in both meanings of the word: (it is) a noise that tries to silence itself, as well as a game that can't be won by any of the players.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of December 16, 2013. Apart from illuminating the whole of one's self... Everything else is a shot in the dark.

Before you can ever be "taken over" by a negative state you are first "taken in" by it, so to catch this internal sting operation is to end the suffering inherent in being spiritually asleep.

The key to the kingdom of heaven is never farther away from us than what each present moment reveals to us; for in truth “purity of heart” is inseparable from our willingness to see that things are the way they are because of the way we are.