The only true antidote for antagonistic feelings towards others seen as being unlike we are, is to realize this simple -- but largely unwelcome truth: just like ourselves, everyone -- everywhere in the world -- is doing the best they know how to do with the pain that they have been given.

Classroom Talk: 8/17/2005 - The emphasis on learning to "see" -- to work at being watchful -- is not to acquire power to resolve our disturbances; it is the way through which we end of the illusion of either having power, or of needing it.

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how everything that life brings to our door is intended to show us something new and true about ourselves... if we are willing to accept the lesson.

Before anyone finds him or herself the captive of some painful pattern, they are first someone who has refused to change.

Conscious persistence transforms unconscious resistance into Revelation...

Student Talks: 03/20/2026 - 

Part 1: I can't speak to you of life without speaking to you of death; not the death we fear, but the fear we have of it. For to live in fear is to die in slow motion.

Part 2: Our principle fear is not what any moment may or may not bring, rather what we really fear in any unwanted moment is our reaction to it.

Topics covered:  Nothing that is divided will find wholeness in whatever it looks for to bring an end to its divided state; Hell promises Heaven if we will just do what it says to do in order to escape the conflict. Hell is what the mind makes when it looks for the Heaven it has imagined; You can't love the image that your mind has made of Heaven without fearing and wanting to escape from the Hell that has been imagined.

Topics covered:  Whenever are carried away by a fear, regret, worry, or any other negative state, we are being swept away by the past. We are swept away by the past because, presently, we live in its realm; Within the realm of the past are all of the imaginings of better a time to come; We see the present moment we are in through the shadow of the past. We see the present moment through the eyes of the past.

Whatever happens in life happens, as it must in that moment. So our efforts should not be with struggling to control the way things unfold, but rather in working to awaken from our own sleeping nature that punishes us each time it is not allowed to live out the dream that it has divined!...

Learning to make use of everything that we are given in life is the sure way to discover that nothing exists that is useless, including our own dark states. We must learn to use all that we are if our hope is to realize that we have been given all by God.

The size and strength of any anxious, or otherwise tormenting reaction is no bigger or stronger than the extent of our resistance in the moment of its appearance...