One way or another, we all suffer over things that we can't stop doing to ourselves or to others. Adding to the conflict inherent in self-compromising behaviors is the fact that it's frustrating beyond belief since most of us (in some way) have built a business, worked, and succeeded in some place - won accolades, impressed our friends - and we've weathered storms.

Student Talks: 12/30/2022 - Key Lesson: How can we ever hope to be at peace with life when -- for the most part -- all we know to live for is the endless struggle to carve out a piece of it for ourselves?

Topic: Freedom from Feeling Insecure Begins Here! (Classroom Talk 12/21/22)

Topics covered: Every true teaching is designed to help you see that, spiritually speaking, you cannot truly do what you think you can do, ie: complete yourself; Everything that happens in your life is part of the purpose of your life. What is in your way is part of the Way; Much of our lives now involve an incessant and exhausting search for a sense of security that cannot be assailed by any condition.

Classroom Talk: 12/21/2022 - How can we ever hope to be at peace with life when -- for the most part -- all we know to live for is the endless struggle to carve out a piece of it for ourselves?

Topics covered: The reason the world is the way it is, is because we who are the world are responsible for the world we experience; The 'I' used to address some conflict it experiences is one and the same thing as the conflict it addresses; This work is about what happens when a man or a woman no longer wants to delay the inevitable discovery that they are at war again; Take no thought for tomorrow...

Topic: The Sure Cure for Painful Stress and Tension (Classroom Talk 7/6/22)

Topics covered: It is not in our power to change WHAT we experience. But it is in our power to change WHO is having the experience; To understand the nature of your experience in each moment is the beginning of changing who is having the experience; Most of us would not even know who we are without having something to be tense about, something to be in conflict over...

Classroom Talk: 7/6/2022 - Part 1: No stress or tension exists outside of the seed of some desire from out of which it grows. Part 2: Everything is better without tension!

In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about the painful deception of believing that what we want is the same thing as what we need. What you really need is to see that the wanting never ends.

Ask yourself: how many times have I won the object of my desire, only to find out that it wasn't enough? How familiar do the following statements seem to you? "This is the greatest thing that's ever happened... but what if..." "I love you... but..." "This moment is almost perfect... all it needs is..." The prize won, whatever its name, doesn't end the feeling we have of needing...

Student Talks: 3/18/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1: By wanting are all things not wanted... thus created; much as joy and sorrow, bound as one... are related. Part 2: If you build it, they will come; if you leave it empty... it will be filled.