Meekly submitting to any negative emotion in the hopes it will run its course and leave us alone just invites it to subjugate us again.

Student Talks: 10/18/2019 - Key Lesson: Whoever fails to try what their heart of hearts would have them do -- because their mind tells them, "This you cannot do" -- has failed to hear the ever-present Voice of Reality forever shouting to all those who would dare: "No sincere effort ever goes without being rewarded."

Guy Finley explains that everything you need to succeed and to change the kind of human being you are is already provided for you.

Student Talks: 10/25/2024 - Key Lesson: United we see, and are free; divided we struggle...and fall.

Here is a great spiritual truth: The only time we ever "fail" at anything in our lives is when we walk away from some challenging moment before we've allowed it to teach us its lessons.

Remastered Classic Talk: 3/09/16 - It is virtually impossible to consciously bear the unpleasant manifestation of any other human being until we have awakened to the same manifestation in ourselves, and learned to consciously suffer it. In other words, we can only bear in someone else what we have learned to bear in ourselves... which means none can be truly compassionate until we know what it means to suffer ourselves for the sake of something greater than ourselves.

Topics covered: Enlightenment is not waiting for you someplace, or born out of a knowledge you acquire, or an action that you take. Enlightenment is everywhere; Correct action at the right time is wisdom, and that wisdom is freedom; All confusion is born out of insistence. If I insist, I can't see. If I can't see, I struggle. What do I struggle with? What’s right in front of my eyes that I can’t see. That's confusion...

In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that what we don't like about other people is what we want from them. If we didn't want something, then there would be no problem with another person's bad behavior. The task is to see that we have lived unconsciously from a nature that rejects anything that doesn't meet its approval.

Topics covered: Everything in life moves in two directions at once; Light is an order of our own being; Within us is something we call conscience; It's not our job to change ourselves; The journey to authentic self-realization is a threefold path; There is no such thing as compulsive pleasure; What it means to have a real inner life; Changing the world we experience; Sexual energy; Completing...

Classroom Talk: 11/13/2002 - The continuing unconscious comparison of who we think ourselves to be, in contrast with who we imagine we ought to be, is the unseen movement of misery seeking new company without ever leaving the house of itself.

It is never what we see -- the event, person, or seeming problem -- that causes us to feel so negative, but rather it's that we don't see the low level of the seer the sleeping "self" that is ultimately responsible for ruining all of our moments.

Classroom Talk: 1/20/2019 - Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 28, 2019. While it's impossible to be free of "my" psychological body, including the elements inherent in the ceaseless appearance of its conditioned reactions, I am free to change my relationship to that body and -- in so doing...