Student Talks: 04/18/2025 - Painful reactions are born of an unseen resistance (to life). This means our suffering isn’t created by the unwanted situation blamed for it, rather it is the negative effect of being identified with a lower level of consciousness that believes the best way to deal with unwanted moments...is by not wanting them!

Topics Covered: Every mechanical psychological reaction is ignorance passing itself off as intelligence; There is no intelligence in an unconscious, mechanical reaction; There is no finding liberation through avoidance; Our habitual reaction in an unwanted moment is inseparable from the painful pattern that the reaction blames and resists; Something in us always knows what it wants...

The real adversary in our lives, that proverbial thorn in our side that leaves us aching and angry, and then sends us looking for someone to blame, is not what we have always believed. It is not something "out there." It's something "in here": an intimate enemy.

Guy Finley's monthly call-in radio show "Guy Finley LIVE!" broadcast on HealthyLife.net. Topics explored in this show: Our minds have been shaped by unconscious experience (in school, by adults, etc.) to an enormous degree; We're so quick to punish ourselves, blame others, get depressed when a moment comes that seems greater than us...

Classroom Talk: 4/25/2003 - Just as we know that we're responsible when a thief steals our car because we left it unattended with the keys in the ignition, so should we realize that we have no one else to blame for how bad we feel whenever we permit negative states to steal into our heart and drive off with it!

Topics covered: The sleeping mind convinces us that something outside of us is to blame for whatever feeling -- "good" or "bad" -- is coursing through us at any given moment; The sleeping mind is always trying to find itself in conditions outside of itself; Resistance nullifies all of the higher qualities and faculties that we have the potential to be in relationship with...

Classroom Talk: 7/16/2023 - Part 1: Whenever you make someone else's karma your own, you'll always blame them for it. Part 2: An incomplete mind creates incomplete actions; incomplete actions have consequences. Part 3: Word made flesh... or, "war" made flesh; that's the question that sits at the heart of every moment of life, whether it is wanted, or not.

Topics covered: We change for the better only in proportion to our willingness to accept what is revealed to us about ourselves; There cannot be any useless suffering without unconscious identification; The root of all suffering is within consciousness, not within the thing outside of ourselves that is blamed for the pain; There is no intelligence in identification with a reaction...

Classroom Talk: 4/24/2022 - It is a distinct stage in the development of the aspirant when -- rather than being easily distracted by some imagined consolation for his pain, or by concluding who is to blame for it -- his first and real preference in that dark moment is to increase his awareness of his condition, and not to find ways around it.

Classroom Talk: 1/10/2021 - Hoping to end the fear that accompanies us in so many of the unwanted moments in our life without first realizing the unconscious "machinery" that creates it is worse than useless; it's like blaming the path we're on for the pain we feel while walking it... when the truth is there's a stone in our shoe!

Topics covered: Relationship is the crux of life; We are meant to be self-developing human beings; Relationship is revelation; Three stages of love; For love to grow, we have to grow; What we call compromise in our relationships is kicking the can down the street; Love never blames or separates; In your patience, possess ye your soul; Perfect love casts out fear...

When events do not go according to our expectations, we often light ourselves on fire with anger, blaming life for not having fulfilled our expectations. Then the mind will say, "That's it. I have figured it out. I will live the rest of my life without any expectations." But this one-sided mind does not see that thought as being an expectation in itself. Setting the expectation to have no fut...