Classroom Talk: 9/13/2023 - Trying to change any unwanted condition without first awakening to, and then realizing the nature of the consciousness responsible for creating it... is like blaming a mirror for what you don't like seeing (in it).

Guy Finley's monthly call-in radio show, Guy Finley LIVE! Topics explored in this dialogue: What does it mean to reach for excellence in moments of disturbance and when I least feel like it; Excellence is a state of being, from which all things manifested come; We have a primal, archetypal urge to explore ourselves; Instead of trying to attain excellence we must live it; Our pain isn't caused...

Our lives are meant to be bright, noble, and ever ascending. This promise of our true potential is made good in us by fulfilling our possibilities and not through the interminable struggle of trying to prove what is impossible. Most of our sorrows are the stressful offspring of trying to be something we have no real need to be; they are born for attempting to do...

Better to see where we have been blind in this life -- toward others and about ourselves -- than never to see at all; otherwise, we'll just go on blaming whatever "walls" we walk into for getting in our way!

Classroom Talk: 8/2/2023 - There is no new resistance; regardless how "fresh" the nature of a negative state -- be it fear, anger, frustration or regret -- the only thing that's actually changed in any seemingly new painful moment is what's being blamed for its appearance.

Exercise: Make it your intention to observe the 'wants' that push you to rush, blame, etc. By producing a pause before you act, you will bring an awareness of the 'wanter' into the moment and will see the need to die to that self.

Our resolve to live a real life, an awakened life, is strengthened when our self-study reveals that at any moment we're not consciously in command of ourselves, a mechanical nature is in charge of us, directing us to look for someone, something to blame for our pain.

Remastered Classic Talk: 8/19/15 - When we stop blaming the darkness, or ourselves, for having been walking in it, and decide, instead, to thank the Light for showing us the truth of our actual estate... then we turn the corner in our work to awaken conscience.

Classroom Talk: 05/11/2025 - The only thing good about any negative reaction is the revelation of how useless is that (level of) suffering to change anything about our present nature, let alone the condition it convinces us to blame for its pain.

Trying to change any unwanted condition without first awakening to, and then realizing the nature of the consciousness responsible for creating it... is like...

Classroom Talk: 12/12/2018 - Part 1: We fear whatever we don't understand, and then blame the thing feared... Instead of seeing the real source of it: (unconscious) self-ignorance. Part 2: There is no fear now.

Struggling to reconcile what disturbs you about the world unfolding around you, while averting your eyes from the world within you, is a lot like overeating... and then blaming your stomach for getting upset.