Classroom Talk: 6/26/2019 Any sense of discouragement that would drag us down into its dark world -- where it feeds on feelings of hopelessness that it lives to create -- appears only when and as it does for a single reason: to keep us from realizing that there is no such thing as failure for anyone who will consciously walk into...

Here's why the negative sense of self is blind: it doesn't want to see the smallest thing that challenges whatever it's become identified with; and yet (it is) unable to look at anything else...Which means it is not just a prisoner of what it resists, but (is its) unconscious keeper, as well.

The only true solution to any stress, anxiety, fear or frustration -- that rears its ugly head in unwanted moments -- is to do the (interior) work it takes to outgrow an unconscious, conflicted level of self that sees its pain as proof that it knows... the true nature of peace.

In this short talk, Guy Finley discusses the need to be nourished by a new kind of understanding that appears when we can no longer tolerate giving our lives away to a mechanical nature that acts at our expense.

All acts of impatience serve to secretly deflect the one critical revelation that as long as we meet life with any unseen demand, we can't help but be painfully remanded into the hands of one of these two self-punishing states: anger or frustration. They are the bridesmaids of any desire thwarted....

Looking to your past to help you navigate your way through the challenges of present moment is like trying to drive your car on the freeway by looking only in the rear view mirror.

Topics covered: Your mind never stops looking for something that troubles or bothers it; when it's not looking, then it falls into a daydream and delivers itself into the hands of something that requires you to struggle with it; I Sweat You - ISWTUE - Instant Struggle With The Unwanted Experience; What's the unseen purpose behind every ambition? I want to be free. I'm looking for a way to end all of my struggles in life.

All who are asleep to themselves live in the same world of worry and woe, fear and frustration, regardless if they dwell in rambling shacks or richly appointed castles. The only difference between spiritually sleeping people is the temporary nature of the dream they dream from which they have no choice but to be painfully awakened.

Only when I am one and the other, in the same moment, can desire be transcended and an altogether higher order of one's self be realized.

When people fail to move fast enough to suit you, try to remember it isn't they who are in pain over the pace they keep.

Only the mind emptied of its painful need to seek something outside of itself finds lasting peace.