While it's impossible to be entirely free of a psychological body -- including the elements inherent in the constant appearance of its deeply conditioned reactions -- we are free to change our relationship to that body...
We want to be free of negative states, but refuse to bear our share in carrying the weight of them, a necessary act of self-sacrifice that is the mandatory interim stage between being burdened by the false self... and being set free from it.
Show me the one who governs his own thoughts and feelings, and I will show you that rarest of individuals who lives in a world unclouded by worry and fear.
Finding a way to encourage others to persist with their wish to be free -- especially those from whom you can expect no "thank you" for the time you take from your own life to do so -- is the same as the work of setting yourself free.
Classroom Talk: 2/2/2005 - That strong sense of urgency -- that pressurized feeling that comes with struggling to obtain or resolve whatever is imagined as being critical to your sense of contentment -- is one of the ways the false self makes the essentially meaningless seem incredibly meaningful for as long as it's pursued.
Classroom Talk: 10/25/2002 - Life itself has never weighed-in so heavily upon us as to hurt us; rather it is we who -- in ignorance of reality -- carelessly attribute weight to events that are essentially without substance, causing ourselves to suffer nothing less than the fervent magnitude of our own imagination.
We have no idea about the nature of real power. It isn’t the ability to control or otherwise resolve the outcome of some conflicted relationship in life...
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Classroom Talk: 11/23/2022 - No one has freedom of speech who -- for fear of being isolated, cast out and left alone -- feels unable to speak the truth they would, or to question what they see as false. And how much more so does the above hold true when it comes to the freedom to see oneself as one is... without endless self-judgment, and all of its painful justification...
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In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley talks about owning your own attention for the purpose of observing the painful tendency to blame everything outside of yourself as the cause of whatever is disturbing you.
In this video clip, Life of Learning Founder and Director Guy Finley tells us that the only thing we're captive of is not understanding who and what we are and why we are on this planet. The full replay of this class is available in Life of Learning Foundation's Online Wisdom School, GuyFinleyNow.org, where you can join other true aspirants from around the world as we work to invite higher und...
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[Video] The moment you've been waiting for is here. It's your turn to be one of the very few men and women -- perhaps 1 in 100,000 -- who have found the greatest treasure on earth. Announcing the worldwide release of best selling author Guy Finley's new book "The Secret of Your Immortal Self: Key Lessons for Realizing the Divinity Within." Here's your chance to master an extraordinary kind of...
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In this short talk, Guy Finley explains how each moment of life is made for anyone and everyone who is present to it. If you are not in this moment, you are not alive within the life that gives this moment, which is a vital expression of a timeless presence.