False Beliefs

There is an unseen source of daily suffering that is the constant companion of humanity. It is in one respect one of the great driving forces behind the darkness that encompasses this planet -- the unremitting wars, the violence, the greed, the fear, the desperation -- all the things we see in the world around us...

In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that the revelation of what is false is made possible by the light of truth, so that we can gradually stop being deceived by harmful lies.

In this short video, Guy explains that there is a treasure hidden inside all of us, and that part of this treasure includes the understanding that we are not who we think we are.

To believe that we’re only as worthwhile as others agree to see us burdens us with feeling that winning the good opinion of others is somehow our responsibility. Such a mistaken mindset leaves us the perennial victim of our relationships, and never the victor in them. The only way we can be released from any painful sense of false responsibility is to see that it is based in a false belief...

Spiritual blindness is not of the eye; (it is) the dark effect of being unconsciously identified with a lower level of consciousness that has no interest in looking beyond its own deeply conditioned beliefs... for fear of falling off the edge of the only world it knows.

Topic: Wake Up and Walk Away from Your Constant Conflict with Unwanted Moments (Classroom Talk 10/30/24)

Classroom Talk: 3/20/2024 - So-called "self-love" is the endless hunger of an unconscious nature for the attention of others... to feed its insatiable appetite to feel as important as it imagines itself to be.

Topic: See Through Self-Limiting Beliefs and Bring an End to Useless Suffering (Classroom Talk 7/12/23)

Topics covered: How much time and effort has humanity spent trying to figure out how to be free of fear and suffering? How is humanity doing?; The source of psychological pain will never be resolved through belief in a time to come. Instead, genuine resolution is found by seeing through the whole idea that it is necessary to have a belief.

Classroom Talk: 7/12/2023 - Only in our awareness of a weakness -- by our ability to sense the presence of any negative, or otherwise self-denigrating thought or feeling -- is found the strength we need to die to this lower level of self that, otherwise... lives to ensure that we accept its limitations as being our own.

Topic: This Discovery Stops Painful Self-Judgment on the Spot (Classroom Talk 1/14/23)