Looking for the power to be happy is not found in a person, place, possession, idea, or belief, but through the new understanding that your higher, permanent nature needs no power outside of itself in order to be in charge of an inner or outer attacker.

Before we can learn to free ourselves from our own fearful reactions to unwanted events, we must realize just how worthless fear actually is -- especially when we turn to it to protect us from what are essentially bad dreams wrought from the darkened works of our own imagination! When it comes to these stormy moments in life, what we resist always persists. In truth, it is our not wanting to...

It's impossible to learn what the Divine would teach us about our own higher possibilities, and resist -- at the same time -- meeting that lower level of consciousness intent on keeping us from realizing them.

Awakening is the (graduated) process of negating all forms of identification; (it is) the realization that no matter how real the feel of any familiar sense of self -- for its pleasure, or pain -- nevertheless: no sensation does a “self” make...

Part 1: All around us -- and within us, as well... are those who believe this world of time is the only one; vanity is their reward, and its blind partner, self-love... their unseen prison.

Topics covered: Where you have relationship you have a magnetic connection; We're drawn to what will educate us about ourselves; There is no real practicing the presence without sacrifice; You must continually give up the time life; The real future is dying to myself now; The only thing that opposes you is your own mind; The sleeping mind only lives in one world at a time; The ultimate temptat...

I wake up every morning and this terror comes over me to the point of producing many physical symptoms. I want God's life with all my being, but I feel like I am standing on a bridge staring down into the abyss and cannot move through this. Please help. What other way is there of dealing with panic attacks if all forms of resistance are futile? Why is it that when I hear some bad news, it auto...

Classroom Talk: 03/16/2025 - It may be said that one finds freedom from suffering over oneself in direct proportion to one's realization that there is no separate self whose suffering is to be resisted.

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.

Guy Finley explains how every event in life serves to reveal the actual truth of our character, and that true reconciliation must include a higher awareness of that nature within us that resists what has been revealed.

Before we can learn to free ourselves from our own fearful reactions to unwanted events, we must realize just how worthless fear actually is -- especially when we turn to it to protect us from what are essentially bad dreams wrought from the darkened works of our own imagination! When it comes to these stormy moments in life, what we resist always persists. In truth, it is our not wanting to...

Topic: Don't Resist Revelation, Assist in the Birth of Your True Self (4/2/17 Classroom Talk) - Moderated by Guy Finley, includes short introductory talk by Guy followed by Q&A with students.