Living within us dwells an order of being that knows, without thinking about it, what is authentically good for us. The problem isn't that this higher level of being--with its natural, calm command--is actually missing just when we need it most. The real problem is that we forget it!

Unconscious resistance is a mounting suffering born of refusing to see the following: the only way to change what is -- unseen for the most part -- a string of unwanted life experiences...is to die to the level of self that lives to not want what it keeps creating for itself.

Classroom Talk: 8/7/2022 - There is only one way to be released from negative reactions, and it begins with honestly considering the truth of the following fact: how ironic is it that we fear losing control of ourselves, or over some moment we fear... when the very attempt to control any relationship is, itself, born of fear.

Classroom Talk: 7/20/2022 - Part 1: There can be no painful resistance to any moment of life that isn't born of some unseen form of insistence that it unfold only as we've imagined it should. Part 2: While it is possible to have thousands of different kinds of life experiences, there can be no possible change in the way we experience our life... that doesn't begin with transforming...

Resistance to any negative reaction accelerates it.

Classroom Talk: 4/24/2019 The more we resist -- and suffer over -- any moment that proves we don't possess the strength we imagine ourselves as having -- the further removed we are from recognizing the real healing lesson these moments bring with them: the realization that the source of this suffering -- over our alleged "weakness"...

Given what we know about resistance, what does the biblical passage mean to "resist the devil and he will flee"?...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of June 1, 2015. There is but one central problem: he is unknowingly set against himself; and so he cannot see that what he believes to be a painful struggle with life... is really taking place within himself. There is only one solution to this problem, and its virtually ceaseless suffering: he must realize the truth of his actual condition, and then wil...

Classroom Talk: 11/12/2004 - Whenever we ask another to help us with a challenge that we must face -- before we've done all we can on our own -- we rob ourselves of realizing this priceless understanding: The higher powers we need to transcend our troubles are given to us, but only as we awaken to our need for them, and stand willing to receive them not in glory, but in humility.

The first step in harmonious relationships is simple: We need only realize the spiritual truth that we cannot meet someone whom we are not like in some way.

Classroom Talk: 10/23/2022 - Part 1: There is no map to the Kingdom of Heaven that isn't out of date the moment we set out to follow it. Part 2: Consider the one most free who has learned to see, even in adversity, the Good... whose unfailing Light shines on even in the darkest night.

In this excerpt from an hour-long talk, Life of Learning Foundation founder and director Guy Finley says that the only way we can see that something is working against us is when we allow resistance to reveal it. The full replay of this class is available in Guy's Online Wisdom School, GuyFinleyNow.org, where you can join other true aspirants from around the world as we work to invite higher u...