Classroom Talk: 11/30/2022 - The often-painful experience of any personal limitation is our awareness of a difference between some higher ideal we feel drawn to actualize... and our (present) inability to fulfill that possibility; but, to be clear, this pain is not -- though it often seems to be -- proof that we've gone as far as we can go! In truth, the revelation of any limitation is a Divine invitation to walk into...

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.

We all have experienced feeling angry and hurt when someone speaks their mind to us and is disrespectful. Being tolerant and nice only works to a point, and then we find ourselves unable to contain our feelings and helpless to deal with the anger we feel. In this Q&A Guy Finley reveals that the real question isn't, how do I stop getting angry with people, but rather, what can I discover about my own anger?

The solution to escaping our dissatisfaction with life is unimaginable, because there’s only one way beyond it: we must stop imagining that if we just keep reliving the same old hopes and dreams...

Question: Childhood experiences -- with all the dramas -- seem to set up a blueprint for the rest of our lives. The same issues seem to keep repeating over and over. How do we break away from these patterns? I keep blaming my parents for forming my personality, and I (in turn) blame myself for my children's personalities. How do we get out of this hell?

Whoever fails to try what his heart would have him do -- because his mind tells him, “This you cannot do” -- fails to hear the ever-present Voice of Heaven forever shouting...

No matter how it appears -- even in the midst of some unwanted moment -- life is never falling apart, never falling down on you. In truth, real Life is always falling into place...

What man or woman, by running away from some disturbance -- be it fear, worry, or sorrow -- can hope to transform, let alone transcend their pain? The solution to suffering is...

Nothing makes us more common, more like all those we constantly judge, than being identified with a false sense of self that would have us believe that -- by some “act of God” -- we're so much better than all we see.

Topics covered: The reason the world is the way it is, is because we who are the world are responsible for the world we experience; The 'I' used to address some conflict it experiences is one and the same thing as the conflict it addresses; This work is about what happens when a man or a woman no longer wants to delay the inevitable discovery that they are at war again; Take no thought for tomorrow...

True compassion -- a patience that never punishes -- is our yet realized right to “love our neighbor as ourself.” But this Grace belongs only to those who have seen...

Unconscious identification with any pain from the past -- especially as it involves, or otherwise lends support to some negative perception of oneself -- is a slow-acting poison that, once ingested, soon darkens the soul and leads to its destruction.