ED: Hello. I'm Dr. Ellen Dickstein and this is a Fireside Chat with bestselling inner life author, Guy Finley. I thought that today we would explore the topic of regret. Most people have things in their life that they regret. Memories come up of embarrassing experiences or lost opportunities, or maybe mistakes that they made or things that they're sorry over... and these things that may have h...

The only thing valuable about any fearful state is seeing how worthless it really is and then -- along with the false self that loves to scare itself -- just letting it go.

50% of our fear in life is born out of suspecting just how impermanent everything is around us, and then trying to prove otherwise in spite of the facts; the other half of our fear appears when, despite all that we do, our suspicions prove true.

The secret of letting go -- of a life without the fear of unwanted events -- is knowing, without thinking, that you'll always be given something better than whatever life asks you to give up.

There is a way past this part of yourself that would rather hold on than get out. However, to really let go of these fears, we must first go through them. *** The only thing you lose when you let go of something you are afraid to live without is the fear itself. *** Real freedom is the absence of the self that feels trapped, not the trappings that self acquires to make it feel free. ***...

Whoever serves any form of fear, as when one struggles to keep some relationship in life that compromises their integrity, what he or she fails to see is that all they win for their service is to become more fearful.

One of the problems that we face as human beings is that our senses separate us from what we see. If you have ever been physically sick, you know that prior to being sick, you were virtually unaware of the fact that you were healthy. So were it not for physical sickness, we would never know gratitude for health. Health and sickness are not separate things. We usually resist, reject, and refus...

Learning to let go of our own constant mental chattering prepares us for the entrance of the Secret Self.

We can spend our time struggling, in vain, to make others into what we want them to be, or we can see the inherent flaw in thinking this way and -- rather than trying to change others to suit our needs -- see through the false idea that someone else is responsible for our fulfillment.

The more we learn to let go and give ourselves to the greater Good, the more Good we will find in everything we are given to go through in this life.