Topics covered: Our experience in life, moment to moment, is a direct reflection of what we are in relationship with; My consciousness can't be separated from the experience it is giving itself in that moment; My resistance to any condition is the secret repetition of it; Allowing revelation to release me from painful patterns; Awareness is intelligence; Our awareness is supplanted by desires;...

Any sense of 'delay' in life is nothing other than resistance to the interval that appears between a pleasure spent and the next one imagined. Once this is understood, it's also clear that no pleasure 'to come' is created by the mind that doesn't come pre-loaded with some kind of pain over what's taking it so long to arrive.

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...

Dear Bro. Finley: Please tell me how to stop identifying with fearful thoughts and fearful bodily sensations. I have read so many of your writings. I know what the Bible says. I believe I am complete in Christ. I just don't seem to "get it" as far as when thoughts come "don't resist them." If a thought is there how do you continue on, not resist it and just let it be and move on? Thank you. (S...

Classroom Talk: 5/19/2019 - Being able to realize, and then release one's resistance to any unwanted moment does more than just help change the "dark tide" of that event; it reveals that within us already dwell the untroubled "waters" of a celestial harbor: the timeless shelter of an eternal Self that becomes the same as our own...

Despite our resistance to it, no unwanted moment in passing time -- in and of itself -- is ever "wrong", or "out of place." Our incomplete understanding of the reason for its appearance not only tends to color such moments "dark," but our unconscious identification with this false conclusion then acts to drag us down into that same imagined darkness.

Classroom Talk: 10/6/2004 - Not wanting events to unfold as they do often feels like a measure of control over unwanted moments, but any negative reaction to reality is only an unseen form of self-punishment and not the rescuing power we mistake it to be. The only thing our resistance to life adds to us is the weight of a self-induced suffering born of a needless worry. 

Topics covered:  Resistance to the moment does not prove that you know what the moment is about; You believe that you can get away from yourself. But the object that the mind is trying to get to does not exist without the subject that makes it; Perfect love casts out fear because it takes you out of the equation. Love comes when the self ends. Knowing is antithetical to love.

Topics covered: Why do we deflect unwanted moments instead of using them as a point of reflection? What is the teacher other than the moment that we don't want?; In the end, what we are looking for in all of our searching is ourselves; Everything in creations longs to touch and to be touched; It isn't life that is overwhelming us... we are overwhelmed by our unconscious resistance to life...

Topics covered: I'm stuck in a pessimistic attitude about my life; Is resistance natural; Why do we get further away from innocence and true being as we grow into adulthood; Working with the exercise to consciously look another person in the eyes; Why is there a part of us that doesn't want to be in the present moment; Understanding spirit, reincarnation, and karma; Why do we personalize darkn...

I work consciously every day with many of your suggestions to overcome inner resistance, doubts, etc., but I have one problem I don't know how to crack... as a 7 year old kid I developed juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Until age 21 I followed medical protocol but since then I have wanted to work with this illness mainly as an emotional, energetic problem. Twenty years later I have had mostly go...

Topics explored in this dialogue: When it comes to letting go, we need to start seeing what we're holding onto; Resistance is an automatic, natural, necessary feature which is for our development -- but it becomes a hindrance when it's rejected; The moment you envision being free once you get this or do that, you put yourself in a time capsule of captivity; Real freedom is the freedom to grow...