Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of August 22, 2016. The more some thought or feeling prompts you to rush, or pushes you to run toward a place where some anticipated rest awaits, the more you should work to slow down that you might see -- 'I' to 'I' -- the unconscious level of self that -- with one hand -- points to a 'peace just ahead'... even as its other hand is stirring up a sense o...

The reason we resist virtually all endings in our life--wherein we feel as though something has been wrongfully taken away from us--is because these same unwanted moments leave us feeling terribly empty inside ourselves. In truth, it is this overwhelming sense of emptiness that we detest, and not the changing condition itself that we so habitually protest. So when things..."

Key Lesson: Nothing real lives outside the flow of life except for an imagined self whose sense of "I" consists of insisting that life never deviate from the direction it imagines will lead it to freedom.

True serenity, real inner repose is the same as being quietly, consciously, released from a legion of false beliefs... each of which gives rise to an equally false sense of self.

Question: What if a co-worker is a constant relentlessly negative person that looks to fault you (and most others) every single minute he can? He never shows signs of slowing down -- no matter what I have tried already.

Question: Can you help me understand the exercise "burn the wish" that you have spoken of? I have learned from your talks that insights and epiphanies are great, but they're not "It," and that I must constantly live a sacrificial life to remain in every moment. One of my most sincere wishes is to be around individuals who are interested in truth and presence, and a part of me is thinking that's a true wish.

Patient persistence in any labor, coupled with persistent patience in that effort, serves not only to perfect that task at hand, but also works in tandem to perfect the hand that undertakes the task.

In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about how children learn more from us because of who we are, from the communication of our actual nature, than from anything that we say.

We cannot fulfill who we are - all that we are created to be - in an imagined time to come, any more than a rose waits for the "right kind" of sunlight to reveal - and to realize - its natural beauty and grace.

Classroom Talk: 12/21/2022 - How can we ever hope to be at peace with life when -- for the most part -- all we know to live for is the endless struggle to carve out a piece of it for ourselves?

In this short talk, bestselling "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that to work in service to this world is to understand that every moment is bigger than our individual self-concerns.

Classroom Talk: 3/20/2022 - You will never agree to spend another moment attending to worried thoughts and feelings once you realize that they don't care about you at all!