If it ever upsets you that others don't support or won't confirm what you believe is true, then it is your grasp of what is Real that should be questioned, not theirs.

Guy Finley explains why it would be wise to become highly suspicious of the parts of ourselves that endlessly seek the approval of other people.

The only way we can be released from any painful sense of false responsibility is to see that it is based in a false belief.

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...

Guy Finley's monthly call-in radio show, Guy Finley LIVE! Topics explored in this dialogue: What does it mean to reach for excellence in moments of disturbance and when I least feel like it; Excellence is a state of being, from which all things manifested come; We have a primal, archetypal urge to explore ourselves; Instead of trying to attain excellence we must live it; Our pain isn't caused...

Classroom Talk: 7/3/2019 The more we consent to see that whatever we've imagined as needed from this world to make us feel whole, and then sought after in some equally imagined time to come -- is no closer today than in any time before it -- the nearer we are to attaining a holiness realized no other way: by agreeing, consciously...

Far better to be wrongly judged by others than to live with the fear one has of being judged wrongly by them...and to sell one's soul oneself for the sake of their approval.

Here's the real reason why talking to yourself about what you resent in someone, or otherwise resist about some event is so exhausting: it's very hard work to make something (so big) out of what really amounts to nothing.

The chief cause of why our lives so often wind up in the hands of others is not that they are superior or that the world is too strong for us, but that we don't want to face the uncertainty and aloneness we think we are too weak to bear. ~~~ The conscious refusal to go along with what your weakness wants you to do to escape its uncertainty is what invokes and finally delivers real inner co...

For the want of love, pleasure, or approval we often accept within us the guidance of a consciousness so compromised that it is incapable of discerning the difference between fulfilling ourselves and selling our soul.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 3, 2017. Part 1: Your possibilities in life for spiritual growth are as unlimited as is your willingness to consciously meet your limitations.

Choosing to keep the company of truth is the same as choosing to lose all the false "friends" that presently limit you.