Topics covered: One of the miracles of genuine interior work is that we come to no longer be afraid of our own pain; Every moment contains within it a revelation of the consciousness that you have entered into the moment with; We have to understand what it means to not just meet the psychological pain, but to go beyond it; We end up in more psychological pain every time we avoid that kind of pain...

Topics covered: When you are afraid and you listen to what that fear tells you to do, then fear is your guide and your god; Until you know what is beyond fear, you will not know what is beyond death, because there is a connection. If you live in fear of death your whole life, then you do not have a life; Human beings are the very source of the thing they say makes them suffer.

There is no new resistance; regardless how “fresh” the nature of a negative state -- be it fear, anger, frustration or regret...

Classroom Talk: 4/14/2004 - No weakness of ours persists that is not fueled by the unconscious fear we have of it; so to wake up and face this fear is the first step in erasing the weakness that it protects.

Classroom Talk: 6/6/2003 - The truth is that the only time we ever really "fail" at anything in our life is when we mistakenly walk away from it before we've allowed it to teach us its secret ways.

Stop overthinking and start seeing! In this helpful Q&A with Guy Finley he addresses the question of why we need to stop overthinking about how to solve the problems in our life and instead use disturbances to see the real problem, which is that we're addicted to thinking about ourselves.

The seeds of "what will be" are planted in the here and now, a fact of life that guarantees one thing: unless we do the inner work to be aware of ourselves in the present moment... yesterday will be our tomorrow.

The more we dwell on something that we wish wasn’t so, the more we soak ourselves in negative energies created by our own resistance. The longer we soak, the more we suffer...

The more we dwell on something we wish wasn't so, the more we soak ourselves in negative energies created by our own resistance. The longer we soak, the more we suffer; the more we suffer, the more we resist what seems to be the unwanted event when, in truth, what we are really drowning in are the dark waves of our own uninvestigated consciousness.

Learn to exchange resistance to unwanted moments for being receptive to the lessons they bring with them, and soon you will rule not only yourself, but the universe itself.

Resistance to any negative reaction accelerates its burning sensation that, in turn, serves to accentuate one's certainty that something outside of him or her must be to blame for these flames.

Part 1: The more spiritually asleep one is...the more instantly angry one becomes for having been awakened.