As difficult as it may be to see, always strive to remember the following truth: The way you feel about any given moment is because of what you think you know about that moment. In other words, while it may seem that you're frustrated because you want to understand your experience, the truth is, it's your present level of being that's creating your frustration as well as the..."
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In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that a feeling of frustration with another person is the downstream effect of carrying around an image of ourselves as being perfect. Never blame another human being for how you feel. The condition that you blame for the painful feeling of impatience is not outside of you.
The real reason for our impatience is not the condition upon which we blame it: impatience -- along with its dark fraternal twin, frustration -- is born of our refusal to realize some present limitation and to remain conscious of it until it can be outgrown and transformed.
There is a way to understand and use our inevitable frustration in life so that we don't continue to make the habitual angry response with all its harmful results. Instead of runaway forces taking charge of us, we would be in control...
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Freedom is what remains when we see -- with new eyes -- that we have never been anything else.
Student Talks: 07/03/2026 - Some things must be seen as true before they can awaken within us a new and higher will…that sets us free.
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In this short talk, self-realization author Guy Finley talks about how we have been deceived into thinking that we need to control everything in our lives in order to meet the world's standards of success and happiness. But as Guy explains, if we feel a painful compulsion to control everything we see outside of us, then it is fear that is in control.
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Classroom Talk: 1/16/2019 - The priceless Gift of Life can't be freely received -- as it is forever being freely offered -- as long as we meet it with any demands upon it.
We go through life looking for approval from others. This unending search for approval runs deep inside of us as we unknowingly nurture a relationship with the idea that if we could just be accepted, then little by little we would come to know who we are. We actually buy into the notion that if we could get enough people to approve of us, then this ache in our soul that is always trying to fig...
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Classroom Talk: 06/28/2026 - Some things must be seen as true before they can awaken within us a new and higher will…that sets us free.
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Classroom Talk: 12/11/2024 - There is no greater power for healing than the love of what is True; by its light we see and discover that every moment of our life bears a message just for us, and that if we will attend to that lesson, as honestly as we can, we are that much freer than the moment before. Persist with your wish to know the truth of yourself; use everything, and everything will serve your wish.