The reason why discouraging states hold us captive as they do is that they convince us that the limited darkness of their reality is all there is for us to live within! But such small states only have this last word about the world we live in as long as we agree with what they tell us is true about our possibilities. We can do better than consent to live like this, and here are the steps that...

Topic: The Power to Make Discouraging Thoughts and Feelings Disappear for Good! (7/29/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 8/8/2021 - Part 1: Any sense of discouragement that wants to drag us down into its dark world, where it feeds on the feelings of hopelessness that it loves to create -- appears when, and as it does -- for a single reason: to keep us from realizing that there is no such thing as failure for those who will consciously walk into...and then through whatever may be their...

Student Talks: 8/13/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Any sense of discouragement that wants to drag us down into its dark world, where it feeds on the feelings of hopelessness that it loves to create -- appears when, and as it does -- for a single reason: to keep us from realizing that there is no such thing as failure for those who will consciously walk into... and then through whatever may...

In any given moment there's always something higher to do with your life than sit there and suffer over what you think you can't have, do, or be.

Life of Learning Foundation founder and director Guy Finley talks about the liberating idea that all discouragement is unnatural. Life brings us to painful points to actually help us transcend them once and for all. 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 highe...

Classroom Talk: 6/26/2019 Any sense of discouragement that would drag us down into its dark world -- where it feeds on feelings of hopelessness that it lives to create -- appears only when and as it does for a single reason: to keep us from realizing that there is no such thing as failure for anyone who will consciously walk into...

Topics covered: song, music, when you walk through a storm hold your head up high, hanging your head down, discouragement, discouraged, high notes and low notes, energy enters into you through the top of your head and travel down your spine, feeling defeated, bowing under the pressure, folding...

Persistence of the conscious kind proves discouragement to be a lie. Only in the light of this revelation is the deception of discouragement seen for what it is in reality: the shadow of an unconscious self...

Classroom Talk: 7/5/2002 - Turn this knowledge into spiritual power to help dismiss any discouraging thought: Those parts of us that whisper to us from some unseen corner of our heart, that tell us that our effort to know the Truth of ourselves is useless -- or that our wish for more Light is a waste, these thoughts and feelings are nothing but the dark voices of uselessness and waste themselves. These negative states must try to denigrate...

Classroom Talk: 1/12/2020 - The pain of any dark moment that makes life feel pointless is, at best a lie. Ours is always the right to exchange any form of discouragement for the realization that nothing about it -- neither its doubt, nor its attending sense of despair -- is native to our True Self.

Topics Covered: In the moment of realization, something that was disconnected before is integrated; Discouragement is dishonesty; We must be willing to make mistakes for the purpose of revelation; Thought that we identify with that is allowed to run unconsciously kills the possibility of rebirth; We are born with the capacity to see our consciousness no matter what level it is at...