Classroom Talk: 12/24/2004 - Whenever we can remember that we would rather smile about what life brings us than suffer over it -- that our natural preference is happiness, not hurtfulness -- then in such moments of being mindful of what we love most... can't we also strive to remember how much better it is, for everyone, to brighten the life of another rather than to darken it in our forgetfulness?

Topics covered: Feeling like something's missing from life; Real happiness is an inside job; Outgrowing moments of limitations; How to use life for an unstoppable understanding; Beliefs don't help us; Resistance confirms what is not wanted; Receive the revelation of what no longer serves you; Crisis is the seed of growth; No conscious human being can hurt him or herself; What we want always co...

Guy Finley's monthly call-in radio show "Guy Finley LIVE!" broadcast on HealthyLife.net. Topics explored in this show: You can't judge someone without feeling pain; Judgment is a defense mechanism even though it seems like an attack mechanism; Any moment spent rushing towards something to create your happiness only serves to confirm your unhappiness; No one can be true to another human being w...

Topics Covered: The kind of change we are seeking always starts with a feeling whose origin is a mystery. The change does not begin nor come about through thinking; The healing power of what is true requires a surrender to what it is showing you about yourself; Our present way of living involves investing our happiness and dreams in the idea of a better tomorrow, so that we don't live now...

Topics covered: Every action you take is the result of whatever will is present in you at that moment; Using uncomfortable moments to perfect your relationship with the divine; Do conscious invisible beings exist and do they have an affect on us; Taking a conscious risk; What causes the bittersweet feeling when we start working to give up the false self; Comparing the urgency of spiritual work...

Topics covered:  Our lives are spent trying to change our lives in an attempt to find some kind of happiness as it has been imagined. Yet after all of these years, we are still trying to change our lives; There is the kind of life spent trying to change your life, and then there the kind of life that understands the futility of struggling to change your life as you imagine it.

Topics covered: Discussion of Guy's new book on Relationship Magic; Blessed are those who cannot find peace, happiness, and consolation in this world; We are called to be in relationship with another order of being; Love brings us together so that we can see limitations in ourselves and release them; You cannot remain who and what you've been; My pain is not more important than yours; Love nev...

Whenever we put ourselves on the side of what we know is true, then the truth takes our side, lending us what is noble, needful, and divine. Truth sees to it that we are strengthened by wisdom, sheltered by light, and that our hearts know the peace of having fulfilled her plan. And the more we choose in favor of being awake to our own True Self, the sooner we will come to realize...

Topics covered: Every time we have a rude awakening, the realization is quickly covered up with a new dream; There is something in you that lives to make sure that you forget what you need to remember; The problem with our model by which we will achieve endless happiness, is that the model does not stand the test of time; Until you experience for yourself the fact that nothing dies, you will always be afraid of death.

Sometimes we feel discouraged because our past efforts to meaningfully change our lives have not prevailed over what challenges us. We think, why bother to try now? Perhaps we are disheartened because one of our main hopes for happiness suddenly proves hopeless. Maybe we get downcast some days because our body, or our mind, is no longer capable of doing what it once could in our younger years...

When you're negative, you're dead; it may feel like you're alive, but that's only because of how much you don't want to feel the painful presence of (your own) resistance... with which you have become unconsciously identified.

I am always surprised by your strength -- by how happy I am to be too weak to do anything except completely accept you. What is this power of yours? How shall I understand it? 

Are you a Gathering Force? When you come, do you collect all the parts of me that have wandered off high and low looking for you... somehow drawing them all into one place wherein their deep peace is that they once again know that they need never look for anything...