Topic: Stop Being a Prisoner of the Past (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 10/22/25)

Topic: How to Use Any Negative Reaction to Give You a Fresh Start in Life (Classroom Talk 8/7/24)

Painful thoughts, feelings of regret, the fear of some dark tomorrow: all point to a “distant fire” as the source of our suffering, even as they blow smoke in our eyes to ensure we don't see that they are what's burning us in any troubling moment.

In this short video, Guy talks about how, when it comes to our relationships, the opportunity to do the right thing always exists, even when something tells us that it is too late.

Far better than being someone who is always sorry for what their being has brought to pass in the life of others is to start, instead, the difficult interior work of actually changing our being . . . so that we no longer need to regret the mindless actions committed by a self asleep to itself.

Topic: How to Leave the Pain of the Past Behind You (Classroom Talk 2/23/22)

There is only one path that leads to a relationship with what is holy, and therefore perfectly complete... And that is to see -- without flinching, and finally without regret -- that all of the (seemingly attractive) paths through this life always end right where they began: in a too-familiar, but terrible, sense of emptiness.

It is a fool and his pride that relishes in any perfection that “proves” its value by punishing him for his imperfections.

Psychological pain is a question that cannot be answered by the one who suffers its visitation.

In this exchange with an online viewer, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about a critical stage in the inner development of spiritual aspirants in which a necessary sense of emptiness appears after letting go of painful attachments.

If you find yourself harboring resentment -- filled with angry thoughts or painful regrets -- having surrendered to the suffering induced by your own negative considerations... be warned: in the darkness of that nature is where affliction hides...