Wise persistence always pays the one who serves it at least once, but usually twice. The first payoff -- and the most valuable -- is the realization that "walls" are immaterial apart from the resistance that lends them their temporary substance. The second payment comes on the other side of the "wall"... where achievement proves the value of sustained effort.

Part 1 Never fear the loss of what will, and must disappear in this world of passing time. The work of remembering this timeless (but unwanted) truth is the same as connecting yourself to the love of an all-embracing, fearless awareness... that never dies. Part 2 When you see that the emptiness you fear is full of your resistance to its appearance -- and that some unseen part of you...

Part of our possibility of growing into another order of being, of having a relationship with what is more celestial than earthly in nature, is that we're capable of seeing the world around us through eyes that are not just connected to our response to what we see but are connected to the reality behind what is seen.

Hoping to help someone who loves to be negative see the harm of being identified with dark states is like...trying to teach a bat to appreciate sunlight, or a mud hen to preen in fresh clean waters.

You can't be prepared for real life, but you can know that Real Life has already prepared within you all that you need to succeed.

Meeting life with the pretense that we already know what it's all about keeps us from discovering what we are all about.

"Not wanting" what has happened to you is not only powerless to change what happened, but actually makes you a captive of the very condition you wish to escape.

The presence of the Master is useless without one's awareness of the same.

Resisting the revelation of any existing limitation is like resenting the ocean because you never learned how to swim...

Part 1 Rushing is the pain of trying, in vain, to avoid the awareness of what we are being given in favor of trying to get on to what it is that we want! Part 2 Only the simultaneous awareness of "Yes and No" is capable of producing the sensitive energies needed to receive impressions from the objective world, to know an Intelligence that isn't divided into parts that act against each other.

In this Saturday discussion Guy explains a key misconception behind guilt and making mistakes. What is primarily at work is self-protection, the self thinks it is separate from what it just did, but feeling guilty or sorry for a mistake...

ED: Hello. I'm Dr. Ellen Dickstein, and I'm here with inner life author, Guy Finley. We're going to be talking about letting go of negative states. Guy, I was thinking about this topic today and I actually had to laugh, because I thought you'd never expect to hear two people talking about letting go of a hot pot handle. There seems to be a wisdom of the body that knows if something is causing...