If we would ever be free... this is what we must come to see: our troubled thinking is a “racket” in both meanings of the word: (it is) a noise seeking to silence itself, in a “rigged” search that has no end...
A kite on the broken string, That's the thing I am When I've forgotten you. My mind unattended, drifting ...Unaware it's falling Because you're not there To hold it against the wind. A kite on the broken string isn't free. It's lost.
Learning to recognize the fact that most of our conclusions about life have proven themselves to be illusions helps free us of that visiting dark dread of unwanted moments when we hear fear telling us what our future will be!...
I am only as free as I am unknown, experiencing unfamiliar moments unfolding in an unknowable world...
There is no solving the mystery of ourselves without having first solved the mystery of our suffering... which is why so few become self-realized, let alone set free...
Bestselling “Letting Go” author, Guy Finley, will conduct a free live talk on Enlightened Living: Real Life Lessons in Letting Go at the Daytona Beach Regional Library, Florida. If you are in the area, please join us.
Classroom Talk: 4/6/2005 - Looking to negative thoughts, or dark emotional states, for the power to help you out of some unwanted moment in life, is like hoping that your own shadow -- cast by the sun setting behind you -- can guide you out of a desert in which you have become lost!
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Classroom Talk: 04/12/2026 - Passing time reveals the true nature of thought to be naught but grains of sand, endlessly spilling themselves out of – and back into – the nothingness from out of which they have come.
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Classroom Talk: 06/01/2025 - Show me the one who governs his or her own thoughts and feelings, and I will show you someone who lives in a world unclouded by worry and fear.
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Fear and anxiety do not exist outside of an old mind that -- moment by moment -- creates these dark states in a deeply divided space within itself.
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Classroom Talk: 7/28/2024 - Only in a sustained conscious awareness of our (own) suffering are we awakened to see, and to know, accordingly, the healing presence of a Divine Light: a living, loving intelligence that reveals and conceives -- all at once -- the possibility of perfect compassion.