Informal discussion led by Guy Finley at Life of Learning Foundation on 9/22/12.

Informal discussion led by Guy Finley at Life of Learning Foundation on 9/22/07.

Topics covered: What is the single greatest obstacle to awakening; There is a nature in you that wants you to forget everything vital to you; God never ceases to be present; The sign of 'spiritual dehydration' is not being able to think of anyone but yourself; There's a fine line between surrender and discipline; Your Father knows what you need before you do; A spiritual school is necessary be...

Topic: Escape the Prison Called the "Pain of the Past" (Classroom Talk 8/17/22)

Student Talks: 4/22/2022 - Key Lesson: There is a very strange feature as concerns most human beings: we would rather feel anxious thinking about unwanted moments over which we have no power, than to practice placing our attention in the fact of that moment... where no thought is needed to build a bridge between ourselves, and a timeless peace whose Presence all of us seek.

Topics covered: The Hero's Journey begins with discovering that we do not know what we think we know; Every human being, by the fact that they are born on this planet, is asleep in this planet, in this consciousness that has manifested and expressed itself in this world; Everything will be revealed to the individuals who really want to know the reason for their existence...

Topics covered: The original meaning of the word "profitable" pertains to the concept of "ascending." And the original meaning of the word "sin" pertains to "missing the mark"; There is not one moment of the day that you are not experiencing what something in you loves, both on the so-called positive side and the so-called negative side; Only love makes us an authentically profitable...

Topics covered: There is no freedom to be found in possessions, in the known, the familiar, the comfortable; It is wise to seek immortality because time defeats all other ambitions; You cannot resist then moment and learn from it at the same time. And if you can't learn from the moment, then you cannot grow inwardly; Nothing happens to you. Everything happens for you so that you can learn from the revelation...

 

We cannot fulfill who we are -- all that we are created to be -- in an imagined time to come, any more than a rose waits for the “right kind” of sunlight to reveal -- and to realize -- its natural beauty and grace.

The great illusion of humanity -- that drives all forms of desperation including fear, greed, anxiety, and despair -- is that we are somehow incomplete. We are not incomplete...

Resisting any unwanted or otherwise painful state ensures that its concealed cause in our consciousness won’t be revealed. Further: whatever remains concealed in us cannot be healed...

In this Saturday discussion Guy explains that the reason we often don't go all the way, finish something completely, is because of an inconvenience of an awakening conscience. But that the immediacy of the work...