We must learn what it means to become unfixed from negative states, and we will when we realize that the sense of self we derive from them is worthless. It's not based on anything real, and it has no permanence because with time all states pass. We value negative states because of the strong sense of self we get from them. This may be very difficult for us to see, but a strong light...

Part 1 It may be said one finds freedom from suffering over oneself in direct proportion to one's realization that there is no separate self whose suffering is to be resisted. Part 2 All unconscious suffering is... consensual.

Here's the real reason why talking to yourself about what you resent in someone, or otherwise resist about some event is so exhausting: it's very hard work to make something (so big) out of what really amounts to nothing.

Unseen by those who feel empty, rejected by those full of regret, and feared by those who resist change...is this inescapable spiritual fact concerning emptiness, sorrow, or fear: our lives are full of what we fill them with!...

Life of Learning Foundation founder and director Guy Finley Guy Finley reveals what we must do to change our experience of life and enter into a relationship with Freedom itself. 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 understandi...

ED: Hello. I'm Dr. Ellen Dickstein. Welcome to a Fireside Chat with best-selling inner life author, Guy Finley. Guy, in your new book, Let Go and Live in the Now, you relate a special idea that really deserves deeper attention. You tell a short story whose moral is expressed by this short poem: "The feel is real, but the why is a lie." So many of us would say we feel the pain of suffering, bu...

Resisting what feels like an unwanted moment seems natural; but, refusing to accept it... is not...

It is a celestial Law: whatever we resist, we cannot overcome. But there is a still greater Divine Law that the Light that creates shadows is empowered -- before their time began -- to transform and dispel them.

This life -- if it is anything -- is a school for our higher education. We can either accept the lessons that life brings or we can reject them, but we cannot escape the consequences of our actions in the moment of choice.

What's the first thing we see when we hear news that runs counter to what we want? The evidence suggests we don't really "see" anything at all; instead, our attention is seized, absorbed by a familiar negative reaction whose only wish is that the unwanted moment just go away. This resistance acts within and upon our consciousness as a "blinding" and binding force, so all we can "see" is our own negativity over what we wish wasn't...

Resisting any unwanted or otherwise painful state ensures that its concealed cause in our consciousness won’t be revealed. Further: whatever remains concealed in us cannot be healed...

Only your willingness to patiently observe the presence of a negative state can render its pain powerless... by coming to see it as the blind creation of an unconscious nature that causes this suffering while resisting it at the same time.