Topics covered: We need a new definition of success because our current one doesn't work; The very life I imagine I need in order to be free IS my captivity; I will continue to relive myself until I understand the "self" I'm living isn't Real I; No creature can exist independent of the relationship that sustains it; Every human being is capable of receiving all that's needed in the moment...

In this question-and-answer session during an online webinar, bestselling "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about the enormous difference between so-called success in the world, and the realization of a person's highest spiritual possibilities.

Too often it happens that some people lose their interest in self-study. They give up on their inner work because they don't see the immediate results hoped for. If anything, in their growing awareness of what has always been their actual condition, it seems to them that they are now even deeper asleep than ever before...

Classroom Talk: 10/2/2020 - Whatever temporary "strength" we derive from any stressed, agitated state of mind -- as it empowers us to "go through" what it is pushing us do -- is a lie. The only "power" this lower level of consciousness possesses is to deceive us into believing that it's better to run from (our) pain than to turn around...

Guy Finley explains that success in your spiritual life follows the understanding that "in my weakness is thy strength made perfect."

Classroom Talk: 2/26/2020 - If we would awaken -- if ever we are to realize a (conscious) relationship with the Divine -- then a time must come when we are no longer able to believe in the time of becoming.

Topics covered: Life is a school for spiritual education; What is a self realized man/woman; The true meaning of success; A world of endless pain; It's Love that brings me what I need to see; Every moment shows me an aspect of my consciousness; Ask what can be learned from this event; We are all imperfect; Why we feel each others' pain; What is concealed can't be healed...

Could it be possible that we are on this earth to spend our time worrying about money? Endlessly trying to figure out ways to please ourselves? Is there any remote chance that the reason we are here is to carry a hatred for years and years? To do nothing but think about ways to secure power, possessions, or approval? That doesn't make sense, does it? But clearly there...

Classroom Talk: 7/10/2019 Part 1: There is nothing you can possess in this world of passing time that will not eventually prove itself worthless... And yet, as unwanted as this indisputable fact of life may be, that's its value! So then, why wait to see the truth of this when, by embracing it, you might just be set free. Part 2: Powers, possessions, all forms...

Guy Finely explains that looking for the approval of others and trying to live up to their expectations are the seeds of a cultural trap. Learn to do what's right in spite of what the world says, and you will flower into a truly profitable human being.