• Posted Date: February 19, 2019

Part 1 It's impossible to change any moment that we complain about because -- for one thing -- the unwanted moments over which we complain do not even exist apart from the level of consciousness that always finds fault with their appearance.

• Posted Date: February 16, 2019

No one can return to, let alone realize their right to a conscious relationship with the Divine indwelling Self, without first agreeing to pay the cost of consciously, completely releasing themselves from all that they have mistaken themselves to be.

• Posted Date: February 14, 2019

The passage of life's events, including the innumerable relationships through which they are revealed, can either grind us down, or serve to remove our rough, sharp edges; so that whether we feel punished or are polished by our relationships in life all depends upon how well we understand their invisible purpose.

• Posted Date: February 12, 2019

Any "good" reason we have for why some weakness lives on in our character is inseparable from the unconscious level of self that offers it (to us). This means any time we feel compelled to justify our actions -- and agree to do so -- we're complicit in the continuation of that weakness excused. Our inner task is to see these "reasons" for what they are in reality: the act of an unconscious, divided...

• Posted Date: February 10, 2019

The thrill of the pleasures that we seek in order to alleviate a pain or avoid emptiness never lasts. The only kind of true joy that stands the test of time and lasts for eternity is the joy of setting out on the path to discover the truth that sets us free.

• Posted Date: February 9, 2019

Part 1 The contempt inherent in any sense of (unconscious) familiarity is innate in the false sense of security it seems to provide.

• Posted Date: February 7, 2019

The degree to which we judge others, and would make them pay for their shortcomings is inseparable from the false belief that our nature is somehow different, superior to those as seen through the eyes of (our) disdain. In truth -- save for the rarest action of a pre-paid grace -- it is not our so-called "character" that differentiates us from those we judge as being "less" than we...

• Posted Date: February 7, 2019

In a world where everything's upside-down, where what seems to be "good" really isn't, you must learn to discern what's true from what's false. The more you try to keep everything in place, the more it falls apart, and you ending up running right past your own life.

• Posted Date: February 6, 2019

Patience is one of the most important virtues in your spiritual work. Patience teaches you that nothing in the universe is set against you, but rather is there for you. When you can learn to suffer yourself and your reactions, then you'll begin to realize that there is nothing to fear. If you wish to have a whole heart, a true mind, and a real relationship with life and others, you must see the necessity of true patience.

• Posted Date: February 6, 2019

You probably have heard about the idea of "the straw that breaks the camel's back." Whether we are aware of it or not, we all fear how we are going react when we reach that point. This is where patience comes in... not patience with something outside of ourselves, but patience in watching and bearing the strong reaction that feels like it needs to be expressed.

• Posted Date: February 5, 2019

Part 1 Before we can have a conscious relationship with what is Timeless, before we can know a "peace that passes all understanding," there must come a series of (conscious) shocks that prove the truth of the following to us: any imagined time, power, or possession to come -- by which we are forever set free from worry and fear...

• Posted Date: February 3, 2019

When someone says something that is unkind or cruel, it's because they have perceived something in you that has produced a reaction in them. They are helpless to act otherwise, which stirs a similar reaction and helplessness within you as well. If you will meet those moments with the wish to see your own unconscious reaction instead of blame the other person for theirs, a new possibility arises.

• Posted Date: February 2, 2019

There's only one way to ensure a Divine wind remains at your back... and that is to always turn and face whatever you may fear.

• Posted Date: February 2, 2019

A famous artist had a hit record long ago containing the lyrics, "I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter, and make believe it came from you." The next moment you find yourself with a stronger connection to what it really means to be a human being, sit down and write yourself a letter about what you think it means to be a real human being.

• Posted Date: January 31, 2019

It is through one's awareness of imperfection that the Divine reveals the possibility of realizing -- and then manifesting -- its endlessly eternal perfection.

• Posted Date: January 30, 2019

How much time and energy and breath would we save if we were aware of the part of us that wants to speak before it starts speaking? Much of the talking that we do is brought about by an unconscious nature that compels us to speak so that it can experience more of itself. By observing ourselves we can catch the anxious part of us that demands we say something in order to relieve the pressure.

• Posted Date: January 29, 2019

Part 1 To see, and then realize that our psychological pain exists as an inherent manifestation of our still sleeping consciousness...is not just to accept what we're given to see as true about our present level of self, but to be grateful for that Light that reveals it to us..

• Posted Date: January 28, 2019

Anything that currently darkens our lives can be met with higher understanding within us, so that it is properly placed into the greater order of things and becomes a part of the eternal "I Am." That means that every form, every encounter, every moment, no matter what it is, has the capacity to cleanse a human being of the impurity that wants to name the moment as being corrupt or wrong.

• Posted Date: January 26, 2019

Ignoring what any unwanted moment asks of us -- resisting, or summarily dismissing the "question" inherent in our awareness of its disturbance -- guarantees the following: these moments will return, and keep returning... that is, until we agree to realize -- and so release -- the unconscious parts of us responsible for their repeated appearance.

• Posted Date: January 24, 2019

The only way to free yourself from the illusion of any fearful moment to come is to wake up and then deliberately drop the dark dream born of a lower level of self that loves imagining fearful things.

• Posted Date: January 22, 2019

The only reason we ever get "disturbed" over what others may or may not think about us... is because there is something in our present nature that wants to be.

• Posted Date: January 19, 2019

While it's impossible to be free of "my" psychological body, including the elements inherent in the ceaseless appearance of its conditioned reactions, I am free to change my relationship to that body and -- in so doing -- do the interior work of liberating myself from its equally ceaseless identification with its own self-created dark states.

• Posted Date: January 17, 2019

Spiritual patience is a priceless reconciling virtue that's learned, and earned in one way, and in one way only: by awakening to -- and then agreeing to consciously suffer -- what our impatience does to everyone and everything... not just around us, but within us, as well.

• Posted Date: January 15, 2019

Part 1 The priceless Gift of Life can't be freely received -- as it is forever being freely offered -- as long as we meet it with any demands upon it.

• Posted Date: January 14, 2019

Wanting to be free of anything because it troubles you is a form of ambition, because the assumption behind the ambition is that I have the power and the authority to shut this down. And you have neither power nor authority - what you have is a small gift from God that will allow you to see what ambition does to tear apart your soul.

• Posted Date: January 12, 2019

Here's why learning compassion for another -- putting yourself in his or her "shoes" -- is a good idea: not only is it likely that your paths will cross again but, odds are, next time round... you will be the one walking in their footsteps.

• Posted Date: January 10, 2019

Next time we wonder how it's possible that someone doesn't like us, let us take a deep breath, and take a look at how we feel about them in that same moment. If we're honest, we'll see and understand two things at once: first, and perhaps most important: there are, in fact, parts of our nature that are not very likable...

• Posted Date: January 8, 2019

Part 1 Human beings are a unique creation in the celestial scheme of things: unlike the untold billions of other life forms teeming upon the earth -- whose nature is one and the same as their character, an open and shut case -- our nature, its character is not fixed. What does this mean to you? If you understand it... Everything!

• Posted Date: January 8, 2019

Guy Finley, Director of Life of Learning Foundation, explains that the only way to find real freedom is to become aware of the fact of our captivity. Then there is a humility born through which a higher will can work within us.

• Posted Date: January 7, 2019

In this excerpt from an online Q&A with Guy, he explains to an attendee that as negativity subsides, the heart's natural capacity to feel returns.

• Posted Date: December 31, 2018

A true aspirant waits in the present moment for what the moment reveals to the aspirant about him- or herself. And since that is never-ending and always changing, so is the aspirant's interior life. You have more going on in you than can be described, but you must work to be fully here, fully open, in a conscious remembrance of the whole of yourself.

• Posted Date: December 30, 2018

I know that your absence from my life is less a question of your love for me than it is of mine for you.

• Posted Date: December 22, 2018

Part 1 There may come a time when it feels as though love has abandoned us... Or, that it is so far above us as to be out of reach; nevertheless, of this you may be assured: love is always with us; it never leaves us: it can't... Any more than a heartbeat can live apart from the heart that sounds it out. Which means the love we hope to find -- to know, keep or to grow -- as the case may

• Posted Date: December 20, 2018

Finding a way to encourage others to persist with their wish to be free -- especially those from whom you can expect no "thank you" for the time you take from your own life to do so -- is the same as the work of setting yourself free.

• Posted Date: December 18, 2018

Judging yourself for coming up "short" is like believing that somehow you increase your height each time you feel compelled to measure it.

• Posted Date: December 1, 2018

Each and every one of us is given a very particular essence, a very distinct quality that we bring into this life with us that is intended to be developed and integrated during our life. Although we ourselves are not the creators of our essence, our responsibility is to do the work that the Divine has given us, which is to attend to its development.

• Posted Date: November 24, 2018

The touch of God often comes in the form of a disturbance, which is meant to bring us into presence where we can be a part of real life and change. But if you hear these three words you'll know that you've been handed off to negativity instead, where real change is impossible!

• Posted Date: November 13, 2018

The divine expresses its infinite being in every creature he makes. If I can see that expression and attend to it, I am then the conscious reflection of that creation. I know an aspect not just of myself in that moment, but of the divine itself. And in this way I become self-realized.

• Posted Date: November 13, 2018

Here is why rushing from place to place -- from thought to thought -- is the same as going nowhere at all: in one's constant haste to reach the end of some self-spun story -- where he dreams he will, at last, claim the peace he imagines awaits him there -- he runs right by the truth he must see... that is, if he wishes to be set free: there is no story he can tell himself that doesn't develop,...

• Posted Date: November 11, 2018

When you start to understand that there is a nature within that has no interest in "doing the good" then a real and right struggle begins within you, and now instead of hating yourself for your weakness, you know what your work is.

• Posted Date: November 8, 2018

The more willing we are to see the truth of ourselves as revealed in each passing moment, and then do our level best to attend to its silent instruction, the more truth seems to "follow us around," making straight the Way.

• Posted Date: October 9, 2018

There are many times along the upper path when not doing the wrong thing... is the only right thing to do.

• Posted Date: September 22, 2018

You must have moments where you see there's no love in you at all. Why? So that you can understand you don't know what real love is. It is only in the marriage of the moment -- when you find yourself lacking and don't allow your mind to look for answers to the emptiness -- that you will find the true strength you're looking for.

• Posted Date: August 25, 2018

Anytime we get a glimpse of the fact that we've made a mess of things in our lives, something in us quickly jumps in to cover it up and pretend that everything is fine. It is only when we no longer avoid seeing the fact of our situation and can finally admit "I don't like what I've made" that an atonement can take place.

• Posted Date: April 4, 2018

It is a certain level of miracle when, for a person's willingness and work to understand the truth of themselves, something begins to formulate within them that will start to be there for them without them having to ask for it. It is an aggregation of a certain kind of energy that finally forms a certain kind of memory, a certain substance, that begins to be the center of your gravity.

• Posted Date: March 13, 2018

All forms of psychological fear are created and sustained out of an uninvestigated relationship with a lower part of us that lives in perpetual fear of its own death. Until we understand that this fear is not "our" fear, but exists because of an unseen attachment to an imagined identity, it will continue to have authority over us.

• Posted Date: December 30, 2017

Part 1 When, before our inner eyes, we always have someplace better to be, or a feeling that who we are just isn't good enough, we are blinded to the presence of two great truths: First, all imagined destinations are dreams whose promised fulfillment fades the nearer we draw to them... And secondly, that where and who we are in each moment is, in fact, a field of possibilities whose power...

• Posted Date: December 28, 2017

Nothing in reality is fixed; the illusion of being unable to transcend some unchanging nature within you is the work of unseen resistance to the ceaseless transformation that is the matrix of Real Life.

• Posted Date: December 26, 2017

You cannot make yourself whole anymore than a wave can make an ocean. But, you can rise above the waves of frustration, that tempest of anger whose soul-eroding pain would have you believe that you are more than you can be in any given moment.

• Posted Date: December 23, 2017

The power to incarnate, to be a living expression of any Celestial Character begins with our realizing its temporary absence within us. Real action is instrumenting its return, whatever the cost.