Whosoever will face his fears resolutely eventually finds that he faces only himself. And then, no longer inwardly divided -- but united with this new understanding – he is thus liberated from the illusion of ever having to face anything in life other than what he is.

Topics covered: Everything that takes place in creation is the expression of a Divine principle; When engaging in physical exercise, there is an agreement to meet and go through resistance. The same thing holds true spiritually/psychologically; On the other side of the resistance is the flow. On the other side of the resistance is the grow; The real world is a world of infinite, ceaseless influences acting on creation.

Trying to "fix" the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.

Topics covered: Pain always finds the blame. Pain looks for something to blame outside of the consciousness that cannot escape from itself; We are predisposed to blaming the experience for the pain, instead of seeing that the reaction to the experience IS the experience; "I don't deserve this" is the general feeling behind any reaction that blames the experience for the pain that you are in.

Nature's creations are not conscious of the sacrifice they make for the sake of something greater than themselves; their limitation is that they have no choice in what they serve; our (limitation) is that we choose wrongly.

Part 1: All attachments are secret heartaches disguised as lovers. Part 2: Psychological suffering is not the effect of some unwanted change in the way events unfold; rather this pain is born of wanting nothing to change that challenges our false assumptions about life that, once rattled, shake our sense of self.

There is no "my" in Real "I".

Like a child who loses interest in an old pair of shoes that are no longer comfortable to wear, troublesome parts of ourselves can't be outrun, only outgrown.

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about an idea that, if understood properly, has the power to forever change the way we respond to situations that usually instigate a painful conflict of one kind or another.

When sitting in judgment of others, look to your own eyes for whatever darkness you see.

Waiting on others to approve a change you know you must make in your own life -- an action you must take that will likely lessen your dependency upon them, and perhaps drive them to make changes in their habitual choices -- is like hoping that a snow man looks forward to a spring thaw.

In this Saturday discussion Guy explores what it means to take proper action in our inner work. Presently we are improperly active or passive toward negative states which leads to unconscious identification with the self that blames the feeling on exterior events...