Classroom Talk: 12/20/2002 - Who serves only himself in this life may be first to find a seat at the table, but he eats from a plate filled only with emptiness.

Classroom Talk: 10/23/2002 - Whoever struggles to protect himself from his perceived fear does not banish his enemy but secretly breeds the dark seeds of its life.

Classroom Talk: 03/30/2025 - No one wins freedom who hasn't first realized the invisible relationship between resistance and revelation, and how one cannot appear without the other; wherein to see that they secretly serve one another, is to put both in your service.

Classroom Talk: 6/9/2021 - There can be no end to what we fear, only an end to fear itself.

Classroom Talk: 5/23/2021 - Since no desire can complete itself - by itself - through anything it imagines - its only recourse is to imagine "more of" whatever failed to satisfy it the first time around. This unseen cycle is the mainspring of all forms of addiction, as unconscious desire keeps trying to fill a bucket with no bottom by pouring...

There is no greater feature that we human beings have than the presence of a living Light within us whose very nature knows what is our own and what is not our own. When at last we let go of all that is not our own -- all the mistaken conclusions and the painful contusions they cause as we anxiously search to remedy what ruins us -- we find that we already have everything we have ever needed.

Either we live in the freedom that we know is real -- choosing to embody it in the moment, regardless of the cost -- or we wave a flag called "liberty tomorrow" and suffer the indignity of serving what has already betrayed us.

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how real freedom is finally found when we are willing to go through the pain of doing what is right.

In the end there is only one real freedom... and that is whether or not we give ourselves -- freely -- to what each moment asks of us.

Part 1 Pollution, fraud, war, greed -- whatever and wherever the waste we see -- virtually every problem in our world today has its invisible root in the insatiable act of trying to escape ourselves. Part 2 You can no more run out of truths to discover about yourself than it's possible to count the stars in a midnight sky.

There are those who will tell you why it is wise to never forget the pain of the past . . . but if you look closely at the anger, sorrow, and bitterness that has hardened their faces, then you will also see why learning to forgive is the better of the two paths.

Part I: Who serves only himself in this life may be first to find a seat at the table, but he eats from a plate filled only with emptiness. Part II: If we must dream, let us long for that life beyond ourselves; for who desires things already known, or otherwise imagined in forms reconfigured from fantasies too well worn? Behold! It is the Unknown Life that calls to us from a Desire untold;...