Stop struggling to escape the pain of the past; it can't be done. Why? Because it is the dark creation of an unconscious nature intent on remembering, and then reliving what it always claims it would give anything to forget.

Classroom Talk: 9/3/2023 - Creating, and then identifying with its own negative reactions is one of the ways the "false self" works to hide the truth of its essential nothingness... from itself.

In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley talks about the imperative to observe the nature of negativity itself instead of complying with whatever the negativity is telling you to do.

Classroom Talk: 9/1/2021 - Learn to be still and listen... the less we talk to ourselves about life's unwanted moments, the more Life will speak to us, telling us things that ears can't hear.

In this short video, Guy talks about how revisiting the past is a present pain that produces more unnecessary, useless suffering. Catch the temptation to revisit the past and realize a life that is being fulfilled and completed in the present moment.

Classroom Talk: 5/2/2021 - You can't heal the pain of the past by talking to yourself about it... any more than you can collect spilled milk, and coax it back into the bottle.

Classroom Talk: 3/3/2021 - The mind, emptied of its attachments, fears nothing, while the mind full of wanting and not wanting spends all of its time afraid of... everything.

Student Talks: 10/11/2019 - Key Lesson: It's impossible to resist the revelations inherent in our day-to-day interactions with life, and to realize the lessons they bring with them at the same time.

A quiet mind is one that literally lives at a different level ofunderstanding than does a mind that never stops talking to itself.

Fulfilling your true purpose in life -- finding unshakable strength and lastingcontentment -- has nothing whatsoever to do with anything that can beplanned.