Wants

Guy explains that the cycle of wanting doesn’t end when we get what we want because the unconscious mind thrives on the sensation of itself, continuously seeking the next fulfillment. The satisfaction of desire is fleeting, and as soon as one craving is met, another arises to take its place. True freedom comes not from resisting or suppressing desires but from seeing through the illusion that wanting or not wanting can ever bring lasting peace...

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.

In this short talk, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about the necessity of seeing truths about ourselves that the majority of us does not want to see. The "self" that fights with life, in order to get what it wants, does not want to fade away. It exists to desire, then expire its desires, and then imagine new desires. See the pain inherent in trying to keep that circle of "self" in place...

In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about the painful deception of believing that what we want is the same thing as what we need. What you really need is to see that the wanting never ends.

Student Talks: 5/17/2024 - Key Lesson: There is no out-running any unwanted sense of self...any more than the dark shadows of a wind-swept tree in the late-afternoon sun can escape its own branches that first creates them, and then casts them out into the world.

Student Talks: 4/19/2024 - Key Lesson: If -- by the light of remembering and considering what is Timeless, Holy, and True -- the heart is warmed and gradually enflamed, then the following must be true, even if yet to be seen: within us must dwell some sort of celestial kindling; what else can explain how such a flame is created, let alone serve as a light in the darkness of the soul... uniting the twain, making of them as one.

Student Talks: 7/28/2023 - Key Lesson: A true search for the beginning of things must, invariably, lead to the end of things; but the end of things is not the end of the awareness of them.

Student Talks: 7/21/2023 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Whenever you make someone else's karma your own, you'll always blame them for it. Part 2: An incomplete mind creates incomplete actions; incomplete actions have consequences. Part 3: Word made flesh... or, "war" made flesh; that's the question that sits at the heart of every moment of life, whether it is wanted, or not.

Student Talks: 10/14/2022 - Key Lesson: Without an anchor, a ship is carried off by any shallow current or wave that passes beneath its bow. And so it is with us... as long as we try to navigate through this life without being able to anchor our attention in a place of our own choosing.

Student Talks: 10/7/2022 - Key Lesson: Do what's wise, then what's desired. In the Light of that order is balance maintained, and all things otherwise thought profitable realized, accordingly.

Student Talks: 6/17/2022 - Key Lesson: It's the rare dog, indeed, that doesn't dream about -- and then chase after -- a "bone."