In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that a feeling of frustration with another person is the downstream effect of carrying around an image of ourselves as being perfect. Never blame another human being for how you feel. The condition that you blame for the painful feeling of impatience is not outside of you.

Topic: Use this Simple Key to Start Realizing Your True Self (Classroom Talk 6/15/22)

Topics covered: Painful frustration and impatience always appear together, two sides of the same coin; The whole idea of tolerance is born out of self-righteousness that is unaware of itself; The so-called accomplishment of getting what you want sets into motion the conditions that will run counter to what you want staying in place, which means that you will then have to find something new...

Classroom Talk: 6/15/2022 - The ever-anxious feeling that life owes us something -- that we're entitled to have our demands met -- creates two problems at once: first, we are unable to see, let alone realize all that Life keeps trying to give us and, at the same time, the more quickly we are to blame life for the pain created by our own impatience.

Topics Covered: We are already a part of something whose power cannot be denied, even when it is refused; Never run from the fear of feeling powerless, and if you don't run you will be given, by grace, the power to see that everything you feared was a lie; The feeling of being powerless is in fact a doorway into a relationship with something that can never be made to feel...

Classroom Talk: 11/6/2020 - It isn't the world around us we must change in order to bring an end to finding ourselves feeling powerless... again. Before any such change is possible, what needs to be transformed is our unconscious relationship with a lower world within us: our unseen complicity with a level of consciousness that only...

Topic: Illuminate and Eliminate the Source of Personal Painful Conflict (9/2/20 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Self-acceptance is self-realization. The rejection of a moment is the same as resisting a moment of revelation; There is intended to be a release in each moment... if we are willing to accept the revelation in it; Conditions do not create conflict. The conflict is already there before the condition, and before we even know it. We come into the moment holding onto...

Classroom Talk: 9/2/2020 - The only true solution to any stress, anxiety, fear or frustration -- that rears its ugly head in unwanted moments -- is to do the (interior) work it takes to outgrow an unconscious, conflicted level of self that sees its pain as proof that it knows... the true nature of peace.

Classroom Talk: 6/17/2020 - When we seek this world, we may win some of its powers and possessions that are fashioned in time, but when we seek the Celestial, we find ourselves – and that we have something within us which made the stars.

Topics Covered: The seed in time reveals what it already is; The seed dies so that the next form of itself can live; Freedom is not a static condition; Freedom is the gradual release from beliefs about what freedom is; The journey is an endless discovery of new levels of freedom; Faith is the ability to see truth in scale; Frustration is the evidence of a misunderstood resistance...

Topics Covered: The comfort of certainty is the conflict with the moment; False certainty and conflict are one thing; You can't serve two masters, you'll love one and despise the other; Stay awake, watchful, a witness to what "Real I" in you must go through; Everything the mind formulates as the next freedom is the next prison; Give up the idea of "perfect"...