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Enlightening articles by Guy Finley on a wide range of topics address practical life issues and deepen your spiritual understanding.
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Enlightening articles by Guy Finley on a wide range of topics address practical life issues and deepen your spiritual understanding.
Short but powerful quotes by Guy Finley will inspire you throughout your day.
Heartfelt inner-life questions from people around the world, and Guy’s enlightening answers, will shed light on your own issues.
Read Guy’s newest insights as he jots them down, spontaneous and uncensored.
Watch or listen to the specific talk we will all be discussing during this week’s Online Study Group meeting.
If you have a few minutes, and want a burst of enlightenment, watch or listen to these brief talks by Guy, filled with concentrated wisdom.
Hearing Guy interact with an interviewer is a delight. Listen as he makes deep spiritual principles easy to understand.
Be encouraged by hearing fellow members share their experiences and discoveries as they bring higher ideas into their daily lives.
The Life of Learning singers and instrumentalists perform beautiful music that will inspire and uplift you.
Join us for exclusive live broadcasts of select Guy Finley talks.
Start your day off right with a nugget of wisdom that can transform your experience with everything you do and everyone you meet.
Inner-life exercises and special writings deepen your understanding.
Longtime local members speak for 10 to 15 minutes on a special topic. Hear the explorations and discoveries of others on the inner journey.
Dive deep into a subject on your own! Work at your own pace with a series of talks by Guy on topics critical to your inner development.
Catch Guy Finley’s weekly message that focuses on spiritual and personal breakthroughs. This is updated weekly and is available in video, audio and text.
Join a lively online discussion with other members each week of “This Week’s Topic” – a new Guy Finley talk selected for in-depth study.
You are not alone on the inner journey. Listen to lively, weekly online discussions between members.
Every Saturday Guy leads an open discussion. Local members share their discoveries, and Guy’s comments deepen everyone’s understanding.
Guy regularly holds open Q&A sessions. Often members of our global community send in questions, or speak directly to Guy online.
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Shop eCoursesAfter a loved one passed away, I began my spiritual quest. Soon after came an amazing and divine experience. In an instant every veil was lifted and I was given a gift; the ability to distinguish illusion from truth. I felt completely at peace and in a constant state of bliss. Fear was gone, and in its place was faith and knowing. All my "buttons" had disappeared -- conflict and anger seemed ridiculous and unimportant! I had a continuous smile on my face and I couldn't understand why anyone else couldn't feel what I was feeling or see the world the way I saw it. This lasted 5 days, and it truly was nirvana.
After this experience my life was completely redefined. I devote my time to learning, evolving and helping others. But since that defining moment, the bliss of being fearless, of feeling full of Godliness has steadily diminished...and I have been trying to replicate it and can't. Your work brings me closer to regaining this grace than anything to date. What must I do to have again what was once my own? (From student correspondence)
There is a great axiom when it comes to the work of spirit within the human heart; it is this: the same rose never blooms twice. What this means is that any moment of grace to which we have been gifted -- and, as a result, momentarily lifted out of our spiritual poverty -- is just that: a gift. For whatever reason that the "hand of God" touches us in a given moment, we are made in that same moment a participant in the fullness of wisdom and power that cannot be possessed any more than one can possess the sunlight that warms his or her face. But there dwells within us certain parts of us whose power it is, through imagination, to make of such moments a fully fledged "object" -- an image endowed with the richness of that experience. The mind that creates this image does so, in one manner of speaking, naturally; but there is an unnatural part of that same mind that then goes on living through that image, comparing everything that happens to this image and its imagined fullness; so that due to this process of comparison we spend our time trying to recapture or re-create what once came to us and through us. In the wink of an eye one becomes attached to and dependent upon the very goodness that brought liberation and independence with it.
Of course nothing we can fashion for ourselves from such a mindset can come close to granting us the comfort we once knew; it can't; and this state of self, though it seems not so, is actually good. For how else could we come to understand the subtle relationship between instrument and Musician? How else could we learn to surrender ourselves to the hope of that unseen Touch, if not for fully expiring the hope of things seen...of things that we give ourselves to touch?
God's life is never absent from our own; and it seems the only way we learn this priceless lesson is by seeing where we separate ourselves from his life by searching for Him. Real love is a remarkable thing; it is, at once, forever longing and yet strangely full even in its emptiness. It may be that spiritual maturity, the flowering of the heart, dawns (in us) as we learn to love the absence of God as much as we do his presence -- for how could we possibly know this absence if it weren't for his presence to remind us of that? When these two states are seen as being one and the same, we are never without that which we love...and that loves us more than these words can say.
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