Topics covered: You're not going to find what you really want outside of yourself; Unless we have an actual love of something, we usually take the path of least resistance; Limitation is always an invitation to revelation; We always do what we value; Becoming is an illusion because it requires imagination; Keep it RRRIL - Relationship, Revelation, Realization, Integration, Liberation...
Topics covered: Feeling tested and running into limitation; What is spiritual growth; We feel inconvenienced by life; In the same way we have a physical appetite we also have a psychological appetite; We are human ruminants; You see but don't see, you hear but don't hear, you touch but don't touch; Nature uses resistance for her perfection...
In this short video, Guy Finley talks about the necessity of remaining as conscious as possible to any kind of inner psychological pain in the moment that it appears. Guy explains that, in spite of us believing that we do not want the pain, something within us will not let go. Our work is to find out what it is that seems dedicated to holding on.
The only thing (in life) that goes from zero to a million miles per hour -- in a single painful movement -- are negative reactions...
Topics covered: Spiritual wisdom is in discovering the mastery of God. Within us lives this mastery; Every time someone does not agree with you, you experience the fear of death. Anxiety is the avoidance of the fear of death. Anger hides the fear of death; Behind every form of psychological resistance is the fear of death.
Student Talks: 04/18/2025 - Painful reactions are born of an unseen resistance (to life). This means our suffering isn’t created by the unwanted situation blamed for it, rather it is the negative effect of being identified with a lower level of consciousness that believes the best way to deal with unwanted moments...is by not wanting them!
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Classroom Talk: 5/3/2023 - There is no thought, no memory from the past that of itself can cause us pain; the only reason we suffer for their appearance is because we don't want to relive the unwanted experience they remind us of... not to mention how -- for our resistance to that same recollection -- we become its unwitting captive.
Topics covered: You cannot be aware of what's going on in another person's consciousness without being aware of your own; There is a field of awareness in which there is no separation between the observer and the observed; When you resist something that you see, what you are actually resisting is the content of your own consciousness.
Topics covered: Reality, inner and outer, is a lot bigger than our thoughts about it; We have an innate longing to belong to something greater than ourselves; Thought is the limitation, not the way to transcend limitation. Identification with thought stops exploration and discovery; The greater our resistance to any unwanted moment, the bigger that moment seems...
Topics covered: Resistance arises from fear of an identity being threatened; We are born into a world of comparison which causes illusions and identifications; Each event we identify with strengthens the illusion of identification; We are meant to enter into a relationship with another order of consciousness; Fear arises when we challenge a belief; There is no psychological fear without negati...