In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains that every sleeping human being is a narcissist, seeing nothing but him or herself in everything that happens, and then not wanting anything that challenges the glorified self-image. Freedom comes from the seeing of these facts.

Guy Finley explains that we always give our attention to what we value most. We can't "look" for the path to the Divine. The path is right here, right now. Our work is to attend and "listen" for the Divine, moment to moment. That is the true path to peace and freedom.

Discover what it means to break free from borrowed ideas and opinions that tell us what happiness is and how to go about attaining it. Join best-selling self-realization author Guy Finley as he reveals the way to the inner source of true freedom that never fails us...

Part 1: The avoidance of any form of psychological pain -- no matter how cleverly construed, or thoroughly masked -- is not the same as freedom from its suffering. Part 2: Nothing is more empty of higher possibilities than a mind filled with resistance to the revelations of life.

Attending to, completing what the present moment asks of you is the business of Real Life. In the silence of this relationship is revealed and received, at once, a faith no fear can shake, an innocence no temptation can break, and a freedom that no unwanted moment in life can ever take from you.

Classroom Talk: 8/9/2023 - Real life never stops starting over; but, before we can step foot in this timeless new kingdom -- and know any portion of its unencumbered freedom -- we must agree to step out of the world of dreams, and leave behind us their endless illusion of a "better time" to come.

Topics covered: What is real freedom and fearlessness; Everything that happens to us happens for us; Every moment is a possibility for change; The fear of losing oneself; Natural spiritual separation from fear; Remembering that the Divine is only good; All moments and events serve to reveal personalized lessons; Choose to awaken to the revelation.

The end of suffering is not found in the pursuit of freedom from suffering, but in seeing through the very nature of desire that generates the suffering to begin with. The problem is not what we desire, but the identification with desire itself, and the endless cycle of division it creates.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of August 27, 2018. Spiritual attention is the beginning of humility. Humility is the seed of devotion. Devotion is obedience to the Divine. (Divine) obedience is the origin of freedom.

As human beings we form relationships and then, when the form or dynamic of these relationships change, as they must, we blame these unwanted changes for our loss of peace. Such behavior is like getting mad at the wind that catches our hat and whisks it away. Our sense of lost peace, along with feeling the loss of one's freedom that was tied to it, has never had anything to do with peace with...

The next time you run into some familiar blockage or begin to feel unsuited to face some new and difficult personal challenge, don't try to think your way around it.

The sooner we see the secret relationship between how certain we are over what we think we know, and the extent of our suffering over the same, the sooner we will realize the true liberation that comes only with winning freedom from the known.