Do you have anything that will help eradicate the fear of death? I have experienced this for years and it makes my life miserable. I have tried many therapies over the years (which I have paid a fortune for), all to no avail. Actually I have an obsession with this fear as well as the fear of illness. I think the fear of illness really is that I would get an illness that would be terminal. I be...

Classroom Talk: 11/9/2003 - To simply make effort does not ensure that one will succeed, but it is guaranteed that whoever will not strive will find failure.

I work consciously every day with many of your suggestions to overcome inner resistance, doubts, etc., but I have one problem I don't know how to crack... as a 7 year old kid I developed juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Until age 21 I followed medical protocol but since then I have wanted to work with this illness mainly as an emotional, energetic problem. Twenty years later I have had mostly go...

Topic: Fulfill the Real Purpose of Your Life: Witness Without Judgment (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 7/30/25)

Agreeing to feel sorry for yourself is like slipping off a boat far out at seaand, just as you're falling into the water, grabbing the anchor to takewith you so you can always have a souvenir . . . to help you rememberyour time on the boat.

In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains that -- spiritually and psychologically speaking -- the only thing that makes us feel inadequate is resistance to the condition that we find ourselves in.

Topics covered: It takes a long time to start doubting your habitual, useless suffering; The work gives you a way to look at what you've been blind to; Nothing is worse for you than to be negative; Collapsing into an identity vs. collapsing into awareness; You don't recognize your suffering when you start to suffer; The teachings must come from this time; Be more aware of what is happening ins...

Topic: The First Step to Realizing True Self-Command (Remastered Classic Talk)(Classroom Talk 4/9/25)

Topics covered: The mind can only approach the meaning of something through thoughts about it; You cannot separate yourself from life without suffering for that separation. We are punished by a nature that is never satisfied with where it is; When you really know the meaning of something, you don't have to look for it.

Topics covered: For a long time you believe that the feeling you have about your life is who you are; Any sense of self derived from a thought or feeling is imaginary and temporary; The only way you approach the kingdom of heaven is by dying to the kingdom of earth within; We're meant to be like homing pigeons -- no matter where I'm dropped, I go back home; You must ask yourself, what is my wo...

If failing to reap what you think you sow, blame not some ill-fated star. Life bears this true: the seeds do show, you harvest what you are.

In this Saturday discussion Guy tells us that until we become interested in how our present set of values are chosen for us by what doesn't have our best interest in mind, we will continually be a victim of what we value. Real values don't have to be protected. See that the values you currently have don't serve you at all. It is a risk that must be taken in order to have a different life.