Guy Finley speaks about topics related to his new book The Courage to Be Free including fear and fearlessness, beauty, kindness, love, and the authentic path to an enlightened heart and mind.

Classroom Talk: 2/20/2022 - Before we can see that "love is the answer" we must learn to be present to -- aware of -- and above all else willing to go to the heart of the one question that life never stops asking us in 10,000 ways, each and every day.

The first act of higher love must come in the form of personal sacrifice; (it is) made through our agreement to bear into the light of ourselves those bitter, angry, unconscious and ungrateful parts of us that would rather fight with revelation than allow it to help set us free.

Part 1 When we go though life giving of ourselves the bare minimum to get by, it should come as no surprise to us that life returns to us the same! Excellence is the child of effort, whose parents are known as Patience and Love. Part 2 The difference between quitting a task, as opposed to reaching the end of our possibilities with it . . . is this: Whenever we quit..

Student Talks: 2/25/2022 - Key Lesson: Before we can see that "love is the answer" we must learn to be present to -- aware of -- and above all else willing to go to the heart of the one question that life never stops asking us in 10,000 ways, each and every day.

The reason perfect love casts out fear is because any unwanted condition willingly embraced loses its power over us. No one is a captive of what is agreed to, nor does he wish for a time to come when he will be free. Only when we are no longer driven to imagine a freedom apart from what the moment holds for us, will we find that we are free now.

Topics covered: unconditional love, feeling empty, emptiness, dry, unmotivated, acceptance, sacrifice, persistence...

Classroom Talk: 12/20/2020 - Part 1: True compassion, unconditional kindness is our Divine, but largely unrealized capacity to "love our neighbor as our Self." These gifts of Grace are one and the same as (our) awakening to realize that, in reality, there is no separate self. Part 2: Any painful compulsion to teach someone else his or her...

Classroom Talk: 7/9/2004 - When we go through life giving of ourselves the bare minimum to get by, it should come as no surprise to us that life returns to us the same! Excellence is the child of effort, whose parents are known as Patience and Love.

Classroom Talk: 4/10/2020 - Part 1: Love is an endless journey nestled into a self-perfecting plan that can't be "seen," only lived; its never-ending path unfolds within a timeless Kingdom wherein everyone -- and everything -- we meet along the way is our traveling partner. Part 2: The vast majority of humanity views the idea of spiritual rebirth...

Classroom Talk: 7/9/2004 - When we go through life giving of ourselves the bare minimum to get by, it should come as no surprise to us that life returns to us the same! Excellence is the child of effort, whose parents are known as Patience and Love.

Topics Covered: Re-experiencing, reliving a memory; Mind wanting to escape the sound of itself; Real love doesn't punish the one who loves; Love doesn't separate; Love doesn't suffer over what was; Agree to consciously suffer our own consciousness; Remain the witness of consciousness instead of trying to change it; Being in the crucible of the crisis; See that the promise of...