We all have experienced feeling angry and hurt when someone speaks their mind to us and is disrespectful. Being tolerant and nice only works to a point, and then we find ourselves unable to contain our feelings and helpless to deal with the anger we feel. In this Q&A Guy Finley reveals that the real question isn't, how do I stop getting angry with people, but rather, what can I discover about my own anger?

In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains that it is not enough to simply say that you are no longer going to be deceived by negative states such as fear and anger. If you ever want to be free and in command of your own mind, then you must begin to taste the bitterness inherent in those poisonous negative states...

Before we can experience the truth of a higher state of consciousness, before we can stand on the ground of ourselves that is the secret stuff of Reality, we are asked to quietly be who and what we are in the Now. To do this we must learn to let go of those parts of our present nature that are never quite pleased with what is. After all, doesn't it seem that we are always in some sort...

When the doctor taps your knee and it suddenly jerks, you don't get upset with your leg for jumping out of control. Why? Because in that moment, you realize your temporary jumpy experience is an involuntary physical reaction. But how do you view your emotional reactions when they start jerking you around? Not only are they hard on you, but once they're done, you're then hard...

Topics covered: In the world of imagination there is no heaven, there is only hell disguised as heaven; The only thing that has authority over you is what you look to for a sense of self; A machine can never be free because it can only do what it has been originally programmed to do; A machine can only work within the confines of its own content; Freedom from the machine already exists...

Classroom Talk: 3/20/2022 - You will never agree to spend another moment attending to worried thoughts and feelings once you realize that they don't care about you at all!

Student Talks: 12/3/2021 - Key Lesson: The inner journey that leads to a life no longer bound by painful unwanted moments -- including their ever-present fears and doubts -- has one prerequisite: along the WAY we must agree to walk through any gate above which reads this sign: Enter here to meet whatever limits your right to be free.

Topics Covered: We cannot DO anything to create freedom. What we CAN do is understand that which takes freedom from us. Our reaction is usually one of doing instead of seeing; There is no captivity outside of ignorance of the activity of our own consciousness; There is no such thing as "I can't" when it comes to your spiritual life. What you are really hearing is the voice of an...

Classroom Talk: 11/28/2021 - The inner journey that leads to a life no longer bound by painful unwanted moments -- including their ever-present fears and doubts -- has one prerequisite: along the Way we must agree to walk through any gate above which reads this sign: enter here to meet whatever limits your right to be free.

Topic: Discover the Unseen Source of Stress, Anger, and Fear (11/10/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: It is only in a real school that it is possible for a person to receive consistent new impressions. A new impression cannot be separated from a revelation about yourself. A new impression and a revelation about yourself are one and the same thing; Every real new impression only happens once. There is no such thing as a repeating impression; All impressions are spiritually...

Classroom Talk: 11/10/2021 - To see that what makes unwanted moments feel so important to us can't be separated from a powerful, but false sense of self provided by these same painful feelings... is the first step in separating ourselves from an unconscious nature that doesn't care what it feels as long as that stress, anger, or fear supports its insatiable need to feel important.