Topics covered: sorry, apology, apologize, regret, remorse, spite, compassion, thoughtlessness, inconsiderate, seeking approval, looking for approval, approval...

We are a peculiar race of beings. On one hand, each of us professes to be concerned with growing and self-developing while, on the other hand, none of us ever wants to be wrong. This is a paralyzing contradiction. If we are always right, or at least afraid of being wrong, what have we to learn? Couched in our hidden attitude is that we already know everything. This is a serious problem if we a...

Guy Finley talks about how we must risk persisting with what we know to be true even when the sun is not shining.

Never run from what you don't understand, as it will be waiting for you every time you come to a stop.

Agreeing to walk into the "flames" of resistance is the only way to find real and lasting freedom from their illusory nature.

Stop talking to yourself about what you're so afraid of... and in no time at all you'll stop feeling scared!...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 10, 2018. Part 1: There is but one relationship one can have with the wind-blown events of this world that isn't a part of all the useless, unconscious suffering they create... and that is to be a conscious witness of them.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 22, 2013. There are three ways to get what one wants from life: cunning, industry, or love. The 'crafty' ones inevitably trap themselves. Industry is good, but at best, conditional, for it is subject to the passage -- and ravages -- of time. Love, on the other hand, liberates; and it is timeless. In the end, the love of something is its own rewa...

Fulfilling your true purpose in life -- finding unshakable strength and lasting contentment -- has nothing whatsoever to do with anything that can be planned.

In this short talk, Guy Finley explains that any state which we call "love" that does not include some kind of sacrifice is actually a secret form of self-glorification.

Guy Finley explains in this brief talk that the wish to run away from psychological pain prevents us from being the true explorers of our lives that we are meant to be.

It is impossible to dismiss any negative thought or feeling without first doubting -- and then consciously challenging -- its right to darken your heart and mind.