Classroom Talk: 12/11/2019 - It's said: Truth sets us free. So, welcome this Truth... and watch how it keeps its promise: The only thing we really fear (in life) is our own weakness... and this is only because we haven't yet realized another Truth: Whatever the weakness we may fear is NOT ours.

I am listening to one of your tapes on the freedoms we don't have when we want to say things to people. It came across to me that I don't say what's on my mind at times. But when I'm annoyed or sometimes tired, I say what's on my mind without any hesitation! (Student correspondence, 2/19/07)...

Classroom Talk: 02/01/2026 - Giving yourself empty things to do can't fill the emptiness you feel inside, so…risk leaving that space empty; allow it to be filled with something you can't give yourself: freedom from the fear of feeling empty.

Topics covered:  An awakened individual represents for us the possibility of an entirely different order of existence; You can't wait to make something of yourself. That is the reason for all of the planning and hoping and dreaming; The problem is that we live in a consciousness that has made a world in its own image; The problem with life's changes is that they do not agree with the static images that we identify with.

Topics covered:  So much of the pain that we have in life is not because of what life present to us. The pain is in our ambition to prove that we are what we have imagined ourselves to be; Real life is a process of discovery. Real discovery is not the enlargement of oneself. Rather, it is the realization that real life is immeasurable; We have a perpetual internal scoreboard that is always measuring how we are doing in the moment. It doesn't want to come out of the moment thinking that it has lost. It wants other people to know that they have lost. It is a set of eyes that measures life instead of meeting it.

Topic: The Right Answer to Reconcile Every Moment of Life (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 10/15/25)

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

Guy Finley's monthly call-in radio show, Guy Finley LIVE! Topics covered: Why we blame outside events for feeling stuck; The great hope is in changing our relationship to ourself; Resistance is the root of all negativity; How we respond to the moment of feeling stuck is actually the stuckness itself; Real change begins in recognizing what we are stuck in internally; Fearing unknown inner exper...

I sense a need in myself to step up the intensity of my spiritual work, but this "sensing" normally follows my realization that I am quite lazy and comfortable where I am. Is there a way to wake up to what I need to do next rather than to merely react in disgust at my own lack of direction? We cannot help but increase our inner efforts as it becomes clear to us that our spiritual sleep is dr...

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

Student Talks: 12/16/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1: There is no solving the mystery of ourselves without having first solved the mystery of (our) pain... which is why so few become self realized, let alone set free. Part 2: The higher purpose of suffering is to ground us in the Existence and Presence of an altogether higher order of (our own) being... where neither passing time, nor its pain holds a claim on us.

Just as a squirrel checks the quality of a nut before burying it for later...so too should we examine any thought we pick up before putting it away in our mind. Learn this lesson and stop driving yourself nuts!...