No one agrees to rush (through life) who isn't first convinced of the "need for speed" by the whispered command of some pressing desire demanding that one race to find a solution for its suffering.

The problem with pride is that this vain spirit always feels righteous in its wrongness; seeing itself as being superior to the terrible sense of isolation created by its own tormenting desire to be like no one else.

Truth be told, the only thing that most of us are consistent with in this life is our willingness to find ways to please ourselves... Even though the cost of this exercise is to continually surrender our will over to whatever that desire may be that dominates us in the moment. This approach seems to work fine, that is... Until we don't want to do what our desires dictate, at which point we re...

Classroom Talk: 3/4/2020 - If seeking -- even realizing -- the consolation of some comfort had the power to placate our appetite for pleasure, or if running from a fear was the way to throw off and escape its power over us... then surely, we would have realized this kind of peace a long, long time ago.

The sorrow and conflict we see everywhere in the world can never come to an end until we see that its cause lives on in us as an unchecked desire to avoid dealing with the sorrow we breed.

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.

Topics covered: There isn't one moment in this life that doesn't come bearing gifts; It is possible to have an entirely new relationship with every negative reaction; Fear is the passive response to unconsciously resisting the object of our own negative imagination; Transcending our consciousness begins with a new awareness of our consciousness.

ED: Hello. I'm Dr. Ellen Dickstein. Welcome to a Fireside Chat with bestselling inner life author, Guy Finley. During a number of our chats, we've talked about negative emotions, and I thought that this time we would hone in on a particular emotion that is a great problem to many people, if not everyone, and that is fear. Guy, there are many different types of fear, and people react in differe...

Classroom Talk: 4/16/2023 - Never run from any moment you don't understand, as whatever your conflict may be in that moment with life... (it) will be waiting for you when, and wherever you come to a stop.

Classroom Talk: 11/11/2020 - Here's the first step in quieting the mind: SEE the fact that if we weren't always talking to ourselves about what we want, or don't want... that most of what troubles us would just disappear on its own!

Any plan born of desire soon expires both itself, as well as the fulfillment it promised to those who seek it, as imagined. On the other hand, those who follow what they love...

Classroom Talk: 7/23/2023 - 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.