Don't wish for freedom; choose it. Start by challenging the false notion that, of itself, fear has any real power. It does not...

The unimaginable reward of discovering the truth about any troubling condition we meet along the path to self-liberation is as follows...

In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about the painful deception of fighting for one side in a conflict because we feel threatened by the other side. Nothing will ever change in any meaningful way by struggling on the level of the opposites. It is useless to try to change a world that is not interested in knowing what is useful to the soul.

Patient persistence in any labor, coupled with persistent patience in that effort, serves not only to perfect that task at hand, but also works in tandem to perfect the hand that undertakes the task.

Classroom Talk: 5/8/2022 - As long as our reactions are seen as choices, and the "voices" that support them as thoughts of our own, it doesn't matter what we call our life... any more than calling a circle a straight line changes the fact that all it does is go round and round.

Classroom Talk: 4/17/2022 - There is a very strange feature as concerns most human beings: we would rather feel anxious thinking about unwanted moments over which we have no power, than to practice placing our attention in the fact of that moment... where no thought is needed to build a bridge between ourselves, and a timeless peace whose Presence all of us seek.

Classroom Talk: 4/3/2022 - Practicing the Presence -- working to remember the truth of yourself -- doesn't necessarily change the kind of events that come to you; that's not how it works. But, what your inner work does change is for whom -- upon what 'I' -- will these events fall and, accordingly, the purpose they serve.

Tension is the struggle between Yes and No; the wish to stay, and the will to go. Peace is the empty space between here and there: a ladder without rungs suspended mid-air.

As goes your attention, so comes your experience. As goes your attention, so comes your possibilities; All possibilities already exist within consciousness; Instead of being aware of all of our relationships, we presently think about our relationships; We presently experience the world only from the outside-in, whereby the outside world must line up with ideas of how events should unfold...

We can either resign ourselves to the negative experience of encountering one unwanted moment after another, or we can work to see -- and free -- ourselves from an unconscious nature...

Whatever we may deny, we mistakenly affirm; and there’s no affirmation that isn’t the confirmation of a lower level of self ...an unwitting captive of the circle of fear it creates.

Seen properly, only self-liberation is possible; this highest form of freedom begins with being completely honest in all of our relationships, but especially as concerns the one we have with ourselves.