"Father, forgive them: for they know not what they do." Guy Finley explains that real forgiveness is an act of realizing the similarity between yourself and those that have caused you suffering, because you understand they suffer in the exact same way that you do. The scripture "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do" points to this type of "immaculate compassion" towards others which...

In this brief answer to a viewer's question, Guy explains that honesty begins with seeing ourselves as we are, and that lying to ourselves is what leads to unkindness.

When we apply a label such as "passive aggressive" to someone who bothers us, we cease to have direct contact with that person and instead meet them only through that idea, which prevents any kind of learning. We must work instead to allow the revelation of the nature that has been disturbed within us so we can see the fear that hides beneath it.

Guy Finley talks about the unnecessary pain that is produced by a breakdown in communication, which is resolved by coming out of our mental dialogs and entering into a broader awareness that is instantaneous communication.

As you persist with the intention to slow down, you will gradually come to see that underneath your rushing is an agitation that is actually meant to stir a higher awareness in you.

Classroom Talk: 1/25/2023 - Nothing makes us more common and unkind -- more like everyone else we judge -- than identifying with familiar painful negative reactions that seem to prove we're somehow different, superior to those whose character we hold in contempt.

Classroom Talk: 12/22/2019 - Far better to see ourselves lacking the strength we need to be kind -- and to consciously suffer the humiliation of seeing we are without (that) character -- than it is to act out the unkindness of an unconscious nature that always finds fault with others in order to hide its inherent weakness.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 19, 2018. You say your lines; I speak mine: A well-rehearsed play, Acted out in dreamtime. But when no one is the wiser, With the stage so dimly lit, None see that half of what is said... Is to no one there, Which suits the other half...just fine.