regret, blame, disappointment, disappointed, betrayal, betrayed, annoyed, annoyance, hatred, hate, jealousy...

Guy Finley explains that when strong energetic forces such as anger, rage, and anxiety appear in us, we can either deliberately use them for our spiritual growth, or they will be unconsciously misused and squandered through resistance.

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about the only true solution to anger, which is to atone for it in the moment by allowing the light of revelation to transform it, instead continuing to feed it through unconscious resistance.

We're often led to act against ourselves by an undetected weakness that goes before us -- trying to pass itself off to others -- as a strength. This is secret self-sabotage. It sinks us in our personal and business relationships as surely as a torpedo wrecks the ship it strikes. Any person you feel the need to control or dominate -- so that he or she will treat you as you "think" you should b...

The real thing that's unwanted in any moment is not the event we blame for our pain. The actual source of (our) suffering is in having identified with a negative reaction, and then mechanically resisting this unconscious state now rooted in the darkness of our mind. In other words: resistance is the source of (our) pain, and not the event we blame for it. Once we see our complicity in the crea...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 21, 2016. Part 1: What is the weight of any unwanted moment... other than our resistance to it? Which means the real reason it's so difficult to set this suffering down is because, to do so, demands that we must also lay down the strong sense of self that doesn't exist without what it resists. Part 2: The real, but unsuspected problem with on...

Student Talks: 10/17/2025 - There is no painful state of psychological resistance to any given moment that isn’t preceded by some form of unseen demand that we have brought with us into that moment. 

 

Topics covered: Resistance never relieves a moment, it always exacerbates it; ASES - Automatic Self-Enlarging Syndrome; No pattern perfectly repeats itself, which gives us the one chance we have as human beings.

The first step in harmonious relationships is simple: We need only realize the spiritual truth that we cannot meet someone whom we are not like in some way, even if we don't actively express what we don't like seeing in him or her. The deception is that we're sure we're unlike everyone except for those who match the images we have of ourselves. And so it goes that we live from -- see our lives...

There are no enemies without someone, or something to blame for our pain...

Classroom Talk: 8/13/2023 - Negative reactions -- in fact any form of painful resistance -- prevail only when we fail to remember it is -- at once -- our Divine right, and our work to transform, and transcend them.

Topics covered: Questions from Guy's webinar on procrastination and inertia; What is the relationship between presence and attention; Why is it so easy for me to go along with the divided mind; Does awareness have the ability to comprehend things without thinking; How do I stay grounded during the day when I'm unable to do my spiritual practices in the morning; How do we protect ourselves agai...