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.

As difficult as it may be to see, always strive to remember the following truth: The way you feel about any given moment is because of what you think you know about that moment. In other words, while it may seem that you're frustrated because you want to understand your experience, the truth is, it's your present level of being that's creating your frustration as well as the..."

Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter. Its form first appears as an agent of conversion that collects sunlight....

The same nagging, "What should I do?" questions have been asked on this planet for thousands and thousands of years, and yet no answer has been able to reconcile the pained part of us that keeps asking. To understand that is the beginning of a new relationship with the part of us that is asking the question. What if we began to suspect that the painful questions...

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!

Classroom Talk: 5/10/2023 - Never fight with life; your struggle is not with what opposes you, but rather with what you have yet to understand about the opposing forces that live within you.

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.

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.

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"...

Topics Covered: Topics Covered: Following your heart; Why don't I know what's in my heart?; Asking others what you should do; Lose interest in yourself; Risk the sure footing of the dock; The understanding that dissolves fear; There is no "you" that is going to achieve something holy; What can I do about the sickness that I see in the world?; Wanting to change the behavior of others...