In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about how our lives are reorganized when we start to see that our own will is in conflict with Life's Will. The Divine knows what we need before we know it. When we see that with more clarity, then that observation will organize our mind in such a way that we will begin to recognize what the Divine is revealing to us in each moment.

Guy answers how to stop being anxious with his quote, "As goes my attention so comes my experience." When anxiety has your attention stuck on worrying about a stressful situation that's your experience. A change in attention relieves us from the stressful connection to anxiety.

Your present consciousness thinks in terms of getting things done so that it can be "over" and you can move on to the next thing. But real life is never done the way that nature wants you to believe. Real life is always being done, and you have a role in it, which is to attend to life while it's happening so that you can be purified by it.

Student Talks: 6/2/2023 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Realize the amount of pain in your impatience, and in that revelation you will also know the extent to which you're deceived about who you are, and the true purpose of (your) life. Part 2: The vast majority of humanity views the idea of spiritual rebirth as a prize to be claimed: some sort of special possession, like winning a tropical island in a high-stakes lottery.

Student Talks: 2/19/2021 - Key Lesson: Much as a jeweler uses his grinding wheel to remove any rough edges remaining on an otherwise perfect gem, so all of our relationships are designed to help "polish" one another's heart... that they might more perfectly reflect a higher order of Love whose power helps heal all involved.

Student Talks: 2/14/2020 - Key Lesson: Patience... is everything: With it, Life eventually reveals the secret of its (invisible) celestial perfection. But, without patience, we struggle to escape the false perception of an imperfect world that refuses to march to the drum of our self-induced painful demands.

Student Talks: 12/6/2019 - Key Lesson: Patience is painful to those parts of us that believe rushing is natural, necessary, and required of anyone who wants to be a more productive human being.

Student Talks: 10/9/2019 - Key Lesson: Every moment is a marriage made in heaven, so why are you still waiting outside the door?

Student Talks: 7/26/2019 - Key Lesson: Patience always "wins" the day, but only if, and as we agree to finish the "race."

Student Talks: 4/26/2019 - Key Lesson: Our impatience with others does not prove that we are better than they; what it does show, however, is the depth and breadth of how unaware and identified we are with some flattering, but false image we have of ourselves. This imagined self must constantly work to keep its imagined...

Student Talks: 1/18/2019 - Key Lesson: Spiritual patience is a priceless reconciling virtue that's learned, and earned in one way, and in one way only: by awakening to -- and then agreeing to consciously suffer -- what our impatience does to everyone and everything... not just around us, but within us, as well.