In this short talk, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley discusses the necessity of learning how to properly use two of the most important gifts we have been given: our time and our attention.

Topics covered: Student observations from practicing the free-memory attention exercise; The most valuable moments of your life are the ones that are the most excruciating; A psychological shock leads to a stop which leads to the possibility of real 'I'; You can't create the shocks that are necessary for your transformation but you can agree to put yourself in the situations where they take pl...

Trying to make yourself feel better by imagining a happier time to come is like hoping to make the pain of being hungry go away by reading a menu.

Here’s why no rest can be found in the thought (of any time to come) regardless how temporarily comforting it may seem: there is no end to the thinker’s desire to resolve the angst inherent in its own conflicted thinking...

The problem is you don't live in the world that you think you do; on the other hand, the problem is... you live in the world you think you do.

One of the chief reasons so many of us feel all alone and isolated so much of the time is because we spend so much of our time thinking only about ourselves.

Here's a simple inner life exercise guaranteed to change the consciousness of anyone willing to work at it: Try to notice how much better you feel when you aren't thinking about yourself.

The secret of letting go -- of a life without the fear of unwanted events -- is knowing, without thinking, that you'll always be given something better than whatever life asks you to give up.

To gain sure entrance into that quiet and safe space that lives between thoughts only becomes possible as you lose interest in the familiar sensations of self produced by mechanical self-centered thinking.

If... You serve only yourself, You serve nothing. If... You love only yourself, You love nothing. If... You cling only to yourself, You hold nothing. If... You wish to please only yourself, You please nothing. If... You have only things as pleasures, You have nothing. If... Your thoughts wrestle with tomorrow, You struggle with nothing. If... You strive to amass o...

Saying "I" to the painful resistance you feel at the outset of any unwanted moment is like turning on a blender, wrapping your hands around it, and then thinking that your name is slice and dice!...

Rushing to reconcile the unconscious considerations of a mind asleep to its own thinking is like trying to dry yourself off and get warm while standing out in the middle of a rainstorm.