In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that it is possible to know and experience higher forms of love only when we allow everything we come into contact with -- including our so-called enemies -- to introduce us to the parts of ourselves that we would never discover otherwise.

Topics Covered: Even though it may sound like a paradox, the quality of obedience is intimately connected to perfect self-command; Real command is not about controlling your own reactions, let alone controlling other people. Anything that you feel you must have control over is in control of you; In order to fulfill its purpose in existence, a seed must die so that it may give birth to another order of itself.

Classroom Talk: 12/19/2021 - Part 1: Resisting what feels like an unwanted moment seems natural; but, refusing to accept it... is not. Part 2: There are some things in this life -- in the world of passing time, governed as it is by the illusion of opposites -- that cannot grow up side-by-side; for instance, by reason of their nature, the lion and the lamb never lay down together...

Student Talks: 9/24/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Love is effortless attention. Part 2: In remembering the Divine, in that recollection of the truth of ourselves, we bring to the forefront of our heart and mind an all-encompassing Presence that cannot punish itself, or any other; whereas in forgetfulness, we forgo this relationship, and fall under the authority of a dark nature whose intent is to...

Topics Covered: "What is important is to find out if you're one of those within whom love wishes to dwell." ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti; Do what is needed to do so that you can be a place within which love wishes to dwell; Everything that we think is so critical to attend to eventually becomes a source of discontent; You have something in you that is in need of nourishment, which means that the first...

Classroom Talk: 9/19/2021 - Part 1: Love is effortless attention. Part 2: In remembering the Divine, in that recollection of the truth of ourselves, we bring to the forefront of our heart and mind an all-encompassing Presence that cannot punish itself, or any other; whereas in forgetfulness, we forgo this relationship, and fall under the authority of a dark nature whose intent is to...

Student Talks: 7/9/2021 - Key Lesson: Our greatest gift -- the heart and soul of our Divine possibility -- may be summarized as follows: not only are we created to give ourselves to what we love, but that we are able to discern -- consciously -- the difference between one order of Love that sacrifices itself for the sake of something Greater than itself, and another kind of love... that lives only to give itself what it imagines makes it great.

The power of being unconditionally kind towards those who unconsciously hurt us is just one of the gifts of higher love. In a way, it gives our heart "eyes" that can see what they were blind to before. For example, by its light we're able to see that the needs of others are really the same as our own, an insight that makes it impossible to mistake their pain as being somehow less...

Topics Covered: Understanding is the marriage of thought, emotion, and body; Most of the time what we call "love" is secretly nothing but love of self; Love doesn't separate and blame others for their actions. Blame is a dividing action; What we love is what we do with our mind and heart every day; What we love presently is the identity derived from that consciousness considering...

Classroom Talk: 7/4/2021 - Our greatest gift -- the heart and soul of our Divine possibility -- may be summarized as follows: not only are we created to give ourselves to what we love, but that we are able to discern -- consciously -- the difference between one order of Love that sacrifices itself for the sake of something Greater than itself, and another kind of love... that lives only to give itself what it imagines makes it great.

In this short video, Guy explains that the genuine love of something does not concern itself with ambitious achievements, but is instead a calling to learn about ourselves and gain self-knowledge through what we love.

Topic: There Is No Greater Love (6/2/21 Classroom Talk)