Being Saved

In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains how our minds call upon the assistance anxious and fearful thoughts in order to save us from anxiety and fear. Seeing this contradiction gradually brings an end to our dependence upon thought to lead us to freedom from these negative states.

Topics covered: It requires faith to change what we give our attention to; Faith in its earliest form is awareness of another order of being and therefore another order of time; That which you seek already exists within you, and can only be realized through your attention, so that you might enter into relationship with higher principles; Everything that seems to obscure the way is part of the way...

Student Talks: 1/27/2023 - Key Lesson: As long we find value in being identified with anything, we remain the captive of an unconscious nature that not only never stops longing for what it imagines will make it secure, but that also consents to suffer over its inability to satisfy its own insatiable desire.

Topics covered: Shocks are mandatory in your inner spiritual work; There is an unconscious nature within us that only knows itself through what it is unconsciously identified with; The acronym in the doctor story was IROTNK stands for "Instant Reaction Of The Negative Kind"; There is no redemption in a time to come. In real life, redemption is always taking...

Student Talks: 11/18/2022 - Key Lesson: The past does not give birth to the future, any more than we might think to look for the living in a graveyard.

Topics covered: What we have called our life up until now cannot possibly be the totality of our possibilities; The first person to feel any form of hatred or resentment is the one who holds it, protects it, and projects it; Unconscious choices are made in order to protect what that level of consciousness deems as being valuable; Truth is a pathless land and belongs to another order of being that is already in you...

Topic: How to Outgrow the Feeling of Being Overwhelmed (Classroom Talk 4/27/22)

Topics covered: The right place and the right time is always right where you are right now; We've never tried NOT trying to fix the unwanted moment that we blame for our pain; What is concealed must be revealed in order for it to be healed; We express negativity when we don't know what else to do with a seemingly overwhelming moment; The more you don't want something...

Classroom Talk: 4/27/2022 - As surely as open skies can't be overcome by any cloud that may pass through them, neither can our True Nature be overwhelmed by any "dark" moment of life, regardless the shadow it seems to cast over it.

Classroom Talk: 3/25/2023 - Our great hope dwells within whatever supports, strengthens, or sustains our love of truth, where much as candle light banishes any shadow before it -- revealing its nothingness -- so a living faith reveals that hiding just within any dark moment is a light that it knows not.