In this answer to a viewer's question, bestselling "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about a strange part of ourselves that actually thrives on the sensations it receives when it does something harmful. It is the very awareness of this inner dynamic that brings about the gradual end to all self-harming behavior.

In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains that every sleeping human being is a narcissist, seeing nothing but him or herself in everything that happens, and then not wanting anything that challenges the glorified self-image. Freedom comes from the seeing of these facts.

In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about how we have to be willing to see that the very part of us that resists any unwanted moment is complicit in its continuation.

Topics Covered: Don't waste your life living the life of someone else; Do you want to be relaxed and content doing what you are doing at any given the moment? Or do you want to chase after psychological and physical possessions until you finally have enough? When is enough, enough?; Every human being is a captive of ambition of one form or another. Ambition can never be satisfied...

Classroom Talk: 12/5/2021 - Part 1: The search for your true timeless Self begins and ends with being true to yourself; no other path exists; no power is required to walk it. Part 2: The reason the true path to self-realization is referred to as being nameless is because unless the one who walks has no name... then it is not the true path.

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.

Topic: Develop this Divine Quality and Free Yourself from Fear (7/14/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Analyzing our thoughts cannot do one thing to change the nature of the consciousness that those thoughts are coming out of; Every time that you take part in a lie, your soul cries; We have almost no awareness of how deep runs this level of consciousness that lies to protect itself from what it imagines has happened to it that threatens its identity; There can't be a lie without...

Classroom Talk: 7/14/2021 - Whoever lies... cries; and not just in that moment, but in every moment thereafter; as when, by fear, we feel compelled not just to defend some past self-compromising choice... but also because we continue to participate in an unconscious act that's not only set against our own best interests... but, ultimately, against the Good of all.

Topic: Go Beyond Painful Limitation to Realize Fearless Being (6/30/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: In order to receive the truth that sets us free, we must begin to see the images that we have about ourselves that keep us in captivity; We get glimpses of something that reminds us that within us is an order of being that we're not the instrument of yet, but sense we could be; The more identified you are with something, the more asleep you are. Identification is captivity...

Classroom Talk: 6/30/2021 - Part 1: What is True always disturbs what is false. What is false never disturbs what is True. What is false is compelled to protect itself. What is True... is its own protection. Part 2: Who can possibly enlighten me as long as there's any fear of what I may see in the dark of myself?