Weakness

We cannot excuse our way into peace of mind. It is impossible to excuse our way into having peace. If we let an excuse, or a justification, or an explanation become our guide in the moment we do something unkind, then we will never enter into this new level of being where the strength that we seek, and long to participate in, awaits us.

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

Topics covered:  We have been educated, inculcated, and conditioned to believe that our task is always to appear as if we know who we are and what we're doing, and anything that would challenge that is immediately seen as an enemy. But in this work, that nature that would hide its weakness is the enemy, because it ensures that we never bring into the light of understanding that which alone can change and transform that nature that lives with that kind of weakness and works to hide it; A weakness becomes a strength when it changes everything that individual is in relationship with. Anything that changes inside of a person changes the whole relationship they're in from that moment forward.

Classroom Talk: 9/14/2025 - We are not only complacent in cultivating the imperfections inherent in our divided nature, but increasingly—individually and culturally—we glorify these very weaknesses that, by grace, are revealed for what they are: stumbling blocks to the soul’s development.

Classroom Talk: 2/8/2025 - Pretending to be a loving person, while inwardly being resentful, is pain; A nice deep breath will always help you to digest more of the many impressions that are raining down on you; The secret source of our painful, ongoing imperfections is our fear of them; We don't see the judgment in ourselves because we are identified with what we are judging; Creation is an unfinished business...

Classroom Talk: 02/02/2025 - Nothing created has (a) weakness that isn't (already) married to a strength that fulfills its purpose. The only exception to this celestial law is found in an unconscious nature that imagines it has some strength of its own, and that - for having become identified with the illusion of this false image - lives in constant fear of anything that comes along to challenge its dream.

Classroom Talk: 10/15/2023 - When the truth is seen, Words, ideas, ambitions, Even lofty aspirations, Are recognized as blindfolds. Why wait to see?

Classroom Talk: 9/3/2023 - Creating, and then identifying with its own negative reactions is one of the ways the "false self" works to hide the truth of its essential nothingness... from itself.

Classroom Talk: 6/19/2022 - Conscious suffering is the one true path (that leads) to a Life that is consciously selfless.

Classroom Talk: 6/18/2021 - The fear of -- and unconscious resistance to -- seeing the depth and breadth of one's own weakness is not the same as realizing one's actual state of (spiritual) helplessness in that same moment. In more ways than will ever be spoken the consciousness of "helplessness" is next to Godliness... whereas fear is the helplessness feared.

Classroom Talk: 3/14/2021 - Part 1: We live within... and under an unseen Law: whatever we resist - deny or reject - about our past is destined to become a part of our future. Part 2: Weakness always excuses weakness... because it fears itself.

Classroom Talk: 1/8/2020 - Where is tomorrow's fear other than in today's troubled imagination? And, if this is true, and IT IS... Then, what to do with our attention now? Let it be swallowed up in the dark shadow of what "may be"... Or, hold it in the Light of higher awareness where no shadow can dwell, let alone its fear?