Discontentment

In this brief Q&A session, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley talks about bringing an end to the painful position of thinking that life owes us something, and what it would mean to have real gratitude.

In this short talk, "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that -- far from being discouraged about what may or may not be happening in our lives -- we are intended to participate in the ceaseless revelation of an ever-present and benevolent order of being within us that never stops expressing itself.

The hidden nature of almost all that we do on a collective basis is the direct, but unseen, effect of this one great unconscious desire: to search out what we believe will complete us, drawing us to seek "greener pastures" by the deft touch of its magnetic hand, but never allowing us to rest...

In this short video, Guy talks about how life itself never attacks us. Rather, real life is always trying to attract us to a new understanding that leads to a new life.

It is no stretch of the imagination to say that many days most of us wrestle with some form of discontentment in life. Add to this disgruntled condition an equal amount of time spent searching for solutions to "cure" this confliction, and we come to realize a great deal of our time on earth is spent trying to dodge feelings of being discontented!

Topics covered: Relationship is the crux of life; We are meant to be self-developing human beings; Relationship is revelation; Three stages of love; For love to grow, we have to grow; What we call compromise in our relationships is kicking the can down the street; Love never blames or separates; In your patience, possess ye your soul; Perfect love casts out fear...

Guy recalled a time from his early adulthood when he had worked with laborers and had observed them to be very lighthearted, despite the difficulty of their work and how little they made from it. He felt a certain kind of shame at his own discontent, and came to the realization that it would be a very different world if we could learn to love our lives differently.

Topics covered: My reaction to what I don't want from life validates my pain; The world we see isn't the problem. The problem is the way we see the world around us and ourselves within in it; I'm in an endless struggle with the world because I am in opposition to anything that opposes my will and what my idea of life is, and what I'm supposed to get from it; Try to be someone...

Topics Covered: There is nothing more useless than looking outside of yourself to fix a pain that is not outside of you; All psychological suffering comes out of an identification with a problem outside of yourself that a part of you is trying to resolve; Real peace cannot be disturbed; Without disturbances there would be no consciousness of the world around us. But the natural and inevitable...

Classroom Talk: 7/29/2020 - The ache of any dark moment -- of any discouraging thought or feeling that wants to convince us we'll never be free... is simply a lie. Ours is always and forever the right to exchange any form of discouragement for the realization that nothing about it -- neither its pain, nor its attending sense of despair...

Topics Covered: What does a difficult moment have to do with giving my life away?; Bearing the unpleasant manifestations of others; Do you think you're the only one who suffers?; Most men live lives of quiet desperation; Love is greater than the life it gives; Not my will but Thy will be done; Seeing the good in difficult moments; There is no such thing as discouragement without...