Can you think of a way in which you regularly sabotage yourself? You sabotage yourself when "something" in you acts against yourself. Now, for most of us, we have a passing understanding of an idea like that because we recognize that we don't want to hurt ourselves. We don't want to hurt others. We don't want to be a burden to this planet. We don't want to do a lot of the things we do.

In this one-minute wisdom video clip, Guy Finley talks about what we need to do to have a truly abundant life that is rich with revelation.

Nobody begins self-study as an "A" student. In fact, real self-study begins with becoming aware of just how unaware we really are. Don't let this last thought throw you! It's wise to see where our wisdom was only an assumption. This allows real wisdom, real self-knowledge, to grow. And this explains why some of our most important first lessons come when we set an exercise...

Anytime you blame someone else for how you feel, you avoid seeing your pain is self-inflicted by a level of consciousness that lives to have enemies.

Every living thing is searching for something to fulfill itself. Raindrops rush down to slake the thirst of a parched earth, even as water-laden clouds are drawn high into the skies so they can pour themselves out. Streams seek out rivers that rush down to merge with the sea. It's really quite clear: the great circle of life is imbued with a unique kind of "gravity."

There is no greater feature that we human beings have than the presence of a living Light within us whose very nature knows what is our own and what is not our own. When at last we let go of all that is not our own -- all the mistaken conclusions and the painful contusions they cause as we anxiously search to remedy what ruins us -- we find that we already have everything we have ever needed.

Even though we often find ourselves feeling so, in truth... there is no such thing as being powerless. We see how a person who resists life--who hates or fears unwanted changes--becomes the instrument of a power that effectively renders him powerless to do anything but struggle. But we've seen the converse as well...

Topics covered: Thought dilutes the necessary experience of yourself; There is no development without an inner struggle in which a person will get banged up; What we get sucked into is the sensation of 'I' that fights with life; Some examples of false flags (something that seems to be on your side but is actually a deception and not for your best interests) include blame, plans, ideologies, lovely feelings, believing in people, believing in anything...

Classroom Talk: 8/9/2020 - We can imagine almost anything save this one unimaginable exception: the dark walls that seem to close in on us in the midst of some unwanted moment are, in fact, nothing more than (parts of) a dark dream born of a mind so asleep to itself... it can't see it has unconsciously imagined the meaning of that moment...

Classroom Talk: 8/14/2019 Living within us... is a lower level of consciousness. This "in-the-dark" nature does not want to know itself, and resists any form of light that reveals its highly conflicted character. Fortunately -- by grace -- within us also dwells a Living Light whose awareness not only reveals the dark realm of this unconscious "self"...