Letting Go author Guy Finley explains the esoteric meaning of the well-known passage from scripture to "sell all and follow me." It's an illusion that we possess anything in this world - instead it is we who are possessed by the things of this world as we unconsciously derive our identity through them. Once we see through this type of identification, we understand what it is that must be "sold" inwardly speaking.

Student Talks: 1/27/2023 - Key Lesson: As long we find value in being identified with anything, we remain the captive of an unconscious nature that not only never stops longing for what it imagines will make it secure, but that also consents to suffer over its inability to satisfy its own insatiable desire.

Topics covered: Shocks are mandatory in your inner spiritual work; There is an unconscious nature within us that only knows itself through what it is unconsciously identified with; The acronym in the doctor story was IROTNK stands for "Instant Reaction Of The Negative Kind"; There is no redemption in a time to come. In real life, redemption is always taking...

Classroom Talk: 1/22/2023 - As long we find value in being identified with anything, we remain the captive of an unconscious nature that not only never stops longing for what it imagines will make it secure, but that also consents to suffer over its inability to satisfy its own insatiable desire.

Topic: Transforming Suffering is the Triumph of the Soul (2/9/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Transforming Suffering is the Triumph of the Soul (2/9/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 2/9/2020 - Part 1: Seek first the Truth of yourself: there cannot be two firsts in our life, otherwise the first of today...becomes the last of tomorrow and, ultimately, what is lost is our opportunity to enter into a conscious relationship with what is timelessly wise, and perfectly loving. Part 2: Growing pains are inescapable for all those...

Classroom Talk: 6/2/2019 - I have no problem with today... Other than the errant dreams that would steal in to disturb it. My course through each minute and hour is set by what consciousness and conscience call out as my duty; In this compass I have complete confidence. So that whether winds blow fair or foul... is of no consequence to me...

The pain you go through when there is a higher purpose behind it is not the same as the pain when there is no useful purpose. Pain gives you a purpose that serves nothing but the nature that serves it. The clearer that becomes, you will no longer be afraid to "sell all" in moments when you are invited to turn the other cheek and not speak out from your suffering.

There is probably no greater treasure than authentic higher self-knowledge but the reason that so few seek it, let alone make the kind of sacrifice needed to succeed in their quest...is because its realization leads one, inexorably, first to the shores...and then to the endless, open waters of uncharted seas.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of August 20, 2018. Part 1: It's not the moment that's unsteady; it's our present level of self: a shack made of sticks that's shaken by any unexpected wind... and that fears its own shuddering.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 11, 2018. Part 1: We can either spend our lives shaking in fear each time an unwanted moment arrives -- trying, in vain, to protect ourselves from what we've imagined it means... Or, we can use that same moment to start seeing through a false self that believes some newly imagined strength will bring an end to its fear.