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Topics covered: Real evolution is the awakening of the soul to its natural relationship to that which created it; We are created to transcend every split second whatever it is that you become aware of that needs to be transcended; The true aspirant has the sense that something is missing, and that the journey back home is inward, the path of negation; Awakening is discovering that here is there.
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Topics covered: We can never change our past by thinking about it. The past cannot be changed by revisiting it; Letting go begins with seeing where it is that we have been passive to thought telling us who and what we are; How can we have a quiet mind and content heart as long as outside conditions determine what makes us happy?; The source of all psychological suffering is not-wanting.
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In this exchange with an online viewer, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about a critical stage in the inner development of spiritual aspirants in which a necessary sense of emptiness appears after letting go of painful attachments.
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In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains that the authority of negative states such as depression will gradually come to an end when we clearly see and understand the part of us that derives its life from wallowing in the negativity.
Topic: How to Leave the Pain of the Past Behind You (Classroom Talk 2/23/22)
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Topics covered: A healthy doubt is the seed of spiritual deliverance. The genuine spiritual path has nothing to do with certainty; We strengthen the grip of fear every time we look outside of ourselves to find a sense of security; Certainty of the pressurized kind is the past trying to insert itself into the present moment; If we are in fear and conflict without knowing it...
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Classroom Talk: 2/23/2022 - The past -- whatever its pain -- only exists in the present moment as a place of suffering due to an unconscious level of self that -- on its own -- first recalls that time and place of sorrow, and then resists the torment of its own conditioned memory.
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Unwanted life lessons repeat themselves again and again. Why? Because we keep talking to ourselves about them. Whether they happened two minutes -- or even 25 years ago -- we talk to ourselves about things we regret or feel guilty over. In fact, the mind almost never stops talking. Something triggers a thought that is the left over, undigested energy of an event that was meant...
Topic: Unmask the Dark Master of All Fear, Sorrow and Regret (7/28/21 Classroom Talk)
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Classroom Talk: 7/28/2021 - Along the interior path, the aspirant must face what seems many separate temptations; but, in truth, there is but one. In the end, the root of temptation is the desire to see and to feel oneself as being "special"... the cost of which is to be thrown into conflict with anyone, or anything that threatens this image. Self-liberation is seeing this conflict for what it is...
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Topics Covered: Whenever something in you says "I can't," what is really behind that is "I won't"; The nature that never wants to meet its limitations will filter out anything that does not conform to its image of itself; We are meant to be more than we presently are. Our present sense of self doesn't satisfy us. We have a longing for something higher so we might be elevated into...
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In this short video, Guy explains that judging ourselves for not being better than we are is both self-hatred and self-love at the same time.