What many of us have yet to understand is that dark, negative reactions to unwanted events do nothing to cure them. In fact, these painful impulses have just the opposite effect. They actually "cement" things -- fixing both themselves and the false sense of self through which they then are empowered to run their unhappy course.

Topics Covered: True teachings awaken the aspirant to what already lives in them; Freedom is an inclusive state, never an exclusive one; The one thing we almost never doubt is the certainty that we feel when we are negative; the certainty is that the cause of the negativity is somewhere outside of ourselves; Whatever we resist has to first be judged and found to be wrong...

Topics Covered: Fear is poverty, and it doesn't matter what the fear is about; The depth of my fear is the depth of my poverty; The psychological pain we experience is not outside of us, but the deception is that it is; We have to die to who we have been in order to be reborn; Control is chaos; Unconscious duality is conflict; There is no reason for the moment outside of the...

Topics Covered: Observe where and by what your attention is taken; Identification is blindness; No reaction can reconcile another reaction; The task of the observer is to realize that it can't change what it sees, but that what is observed needs to be changed by what is higher; Every condition is the perfect place for revelation; Thank you, I didn't know that about myself...

Topics Covered: Desire is not the answer to the sense of being incomplete; Enter completely into the emptiness; What measures everything will never know what is immeasurable; Revelation of our consciousness is the beginning of not being afraid of it; The only thing that bothers us about anyone else is what we want from them; The first priority is to see something that...

Informal Saturday discussion with Guy Finley on a variety of topics.

Second force prolongs whatever it is that we resist; The illusion that my identity exists apart from the image it's attached to; There is no 'I' without an opposite; Thoughts are outside of you; The self feels incomplete the moment it imagines what will complete it; Poverty of self; What is incomplete can't bring an end to itself with anything that it will acquire; Being called inward...