In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the difference between being completely passive to life's movements, and being properly active in the moment, which involves listening intently to what the…[more]
Once we realize that our present view of self, a view that defines our reality, is a construct of a certain level of our own consciousness, we also realize the…[more]
On one hand, each of us professes to be concerned with growing and self-developing while, on the other hand, none of us ever wants to be wrong, which is a…[more]
In this short talk, Guy Finley explains what it means to wait for a "Divine touch" that makes the darkest moments into something light, bright, and right for all involved.
The reason we haven't as yet realized real rescue -- and so usually wind up trapped in a tangle once more -- is because every time we ask ourselves how…[more]
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about the importance of being present to what each moment reveals to us about ourselves.
Deliberately disconnecting yourself from whatever you think has you blocked leads to true self-liberation because you have never been trapped by anything outside of your own lack of understanding.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how a still and attentive mind perfectly reflects the "presence" moment.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about the vital importance of going beyond mere knowledge about spiritual principles and beginning the real work of integrating what we know about…[more]
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about why it is so important for all of us to learn something new and true about ourselves everyday.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about why human beings are so addicted to stress and tension, and why it is so important for us to understand that something…[more]
The true nature of anything -- whether a newly opened leaf or a fearful thought or feeling -- is inseparable from what it serves.
Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.
Seen or not, our attitude determines our altitude in life.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how any moment can be used to remember our wish to be in the presence of what is good.
Guy Finley discusses procrastination and the false sense of self-mastery and justification we receive by putting off until tomorrow what needs to be attended to now. Learn how to stop…[more]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how we can begin to transcend any limitation that we meet along the path to discovering the truth about ourselves.
The next time something dark or disturbing tries to steal into you to wreck your contentment, do not consent to be drawn into its seemingly important considerations.
The truth is that letting go is very simple and, above all, natural; as natural for you and I as it is for a tree to shed the heavy, sun-ripened…[more]
We are at our core a creature of the stars: beings whose original and celestial stuff is not only born of light, but also intended to live unbound.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how we can learn to use every moment to reach for what our heart of hearts longs for.
You have the Light to detect, dismiss, and to transcend the limiting influences of painful negative states such as doubt, worry, hatred, anger, and fear.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how any real request for something higher is proof that there already exists a relationship to the very thing that we are wishing…[more]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how real relationship with the present moment requires both receptivity and letting go.
You'll never know how forgetful of your self you are until you make the smallest effort to be self-remembering.
Learning to let go of our own constant mental chattering prepares us for the entrance of the Secret Self.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about the importance of understanding the need to awaken from spiritual sleep.
The Life of Learning Singers perform Jesu Dulcis Memoria from their album, Door of My Heart.
There may be no greater self-deception than the false notion that rushing through anything actually helps us in any way whatsoever.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how getting angry over our present limitations actually prevents us from consciously meeting and transcending them.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about the vast difference between mere ideas about spirituality and the direct perception of living spiritual principles.
When we are hurt badly, the higher lesson hidden in this trial is to recognize the time has come to let go of who and what we have been up…[more]
The person in denial of his or her own condition continues to ask for more of what didn't help the last time around.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about a bright new relationship with life that is available to us when we are willing to drop our painful demands and wait for…[more]
Outgrowing Relationships - Learn why walking the authentic spiritual path necessarily causes some relationships to fall away.
Here is a particularly vital idea for those of us who are tired of finding ourselves a surprised victim of our own actions: in this world of ours *response is…[more]
In this podcast, Guy Finley explores the true meaning and purpose of meditation, and explains why it is the most natural and practical thing you can do for yourself.
Guy Finley speaks about how it's possible to live completely free from fear, worry, and other self-limiting thoughts and feelings.
We all know what it is like to be held captive of the little things in life -- those petty concerns and small desires that steal their way into how…[more]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how a new, whole relationship with life is possible for the human being who is willing to let go of the endless struggle…[more]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the spiritual necessity of being alone in order to discover within yourself the one thing in the universe that you can always count…[more]
Never speak out of anger,
Never act out of fear,
Never choose from impatience,
But wait...
and peace will appear.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the importance of being ceaselessly attentive to the activity of your own mind, which makes it possible for you to be the one…[more]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the fact that as human beings we are intended to live as instruments of God's life, as opposed to the present-day mindset in…[more]
The missing half of our lives, explains Guy Finley, is letting go.
Guy Finley reminds us that real change itself isn't found in some new way to think about yourself but in the freedom from the need to think about yourself at…[more]
Meditation isn't just sitting someplace with your eyes closed, explains Guy Finley. Meditation is a constant, direct relationship with the sum of yourself in the moment.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the immense difference between a life spent accumulating possessions, and a life in which an individual allows something higher to take possession of…[more]
It is our own narrow mind, with its narrow view of life, explains Guy Finley, that pressurizes our events and their moments.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about prayer, which is intended to help reveal to us the whole of our character, including the parts of us that resist being…[more]
Spiritual work is always interior work first, explains Guy Finley.
Guy Finley explains the secret of letting go and how it's only through letting go that we are given something better than what life has asked us to give up.
Like a flower that emerges from rocky soil
Only on a fully moonlit night, Truth appears
And its fragrance enriches whoever waits near.
Then suddenly, just as it appears
On…[more]
We have within us a new, higher vantage point -- a very special part of ourselves within which we may be at peace regardless of what goes on around us.…[more]
(From the Introduction)
With consistent attention and persistent effort, you can release whatever now stands between you and the freedom for which your heart seeks. You can let go. Never…[more]
Guy Finley explains how and why to let go of any negativity.
In this extraordinary podcast, Guy Finley reveals the higher understanding that is necessary to Let Go and find the Truly Fearless and Free Life!
Why try and change your outer world, asks Guy Finley, when it is only a reflection of your inner life?
Once we understand that letting go is the missing half of the whole happiness our heart longs for, explains Guy Finley, everything in our life grows easier.
Peace is not true peace, explains Guy Finley, unless you are at peace wherever you are.
We can help others reach higher by simply agreeing, explains Guy Finley, to give them space to go through their changes.
Truth wants you to know, explains Guy Finley, that it is never in your best interest to unconsciously suffer.
Any time is the right time to go quiet, explains author Guy Finley.
In this podcast, Guy Finley, best-selling author of The Essential Laws of Fearless Living, reveals how every human being is created with the potential of perfectly reflecting all that is…[more]
When you know what you're looking for is what you already are, explains Guy Finley, then you stand on the threshold of Fearless Living.
To sow spiritual seeds, explains Guy Finley, means that we do spiritual work.
Life is beginning again everywhere, explains Guy Finley -- and so can we, if we are willing.
Guy Finley shows how to move beyond the harmful effects of betrayal, affairs, and infidelity by turning the hurting into healing and learning.
In this extraordinary podcast, Guy Finley reveals a fact that will forever change your relationship with Life.
In this special podcast, Guy Finley explores the popular passage "Ask and you shall receive," and discusses what it means to really ask with a whole heart.
Guy Finley explains that if our peace is built upon worldly forms, then it will be, at best, a temporary peace.
It's often said that 'silence is golden.' But very few people on earth understand why this is so, let alone the immense possibilities this idea holds for the sincere spiritual…[more]
You can let go of any painful situation or darkened state in your life starting right now! This powerful talk explains how resisting your pain actually keeps it alive. Listen…[more]
We must start to become conscious of the movement produced by our thoughts and feelings, explains Guy Finley, because it is their movement that presently drives us to seek balance.
Sometimes the greatest truths are laid right before our eyes, in the simplest of things, and yet we just can't see them. Take for instance our own hands: what a…[more]
In the early 1900s, before the age of superhighways, supermarkets, and the giant food manufacturers, things were very different, better in many ways. Small family farmers used to truck or…[more]
Guy Finley urges us to see through false illusions that keep us from letting go.
Drop whatever would define and limit you, explains Guy Finley, by bringing yourself back into the great and unconditioned Now where all is one.
Starting life over again is the key to a new you, explains Guy Finley.
Within each of us there is an expansive world of thoughts and feelings whose movements determine how we perceive and experience the world outside of us. While this inner-world of…[more]
There is nothing wrong with being a successful human being. In fact, the purpose of your life is to win. But what if, in your quest for this victory, you…[more]
Guy Finley explains that we are not meant to be the slave of any negative thought or feeling
Guy Finley explains how you don't throw a stone into a pond to get rid of a ripple.
Any human being who has to hold himself together is someone who is ready to fall apart. Trying to hold yourself together is a terrible way to go through life.…[more]
When the false self throws terrifying shadows, says Guy Finley, you must work to cast Inner Light.
When you don't -- when you consciously won't -- express some negative state, explains Guy Finley, you are literally asking for awareness of a Higher Self.
Any lingering sadness, explains Guy Finley, is an unnatural life-form kept breathing by the false self's reluctance to let it go.
Guy Finley shows us that any desperate attempt to escape a trouble usually leads us right back into more trouble.
Guy Finley explains that life is always stirring and producing moments in which we are asked, in essence, to be more than we are.
The only power negativity has over us, explains Guy Finley, is the power we give it.
Learning to let go and to live in the Now, explains Guy Finley, is the same as catching ourselves holding onto what limits us and then deliberately dropping these self-imposed…[more]
By deliberately slowing yourself down, explains Guy Finley, when everything in you seems to be screaming, "Rush," you will become inwardly awake.
The real act of letting go, explains Guy Finley, is first an interior action, followed, if needful, by a wiser exterior action.
When it feels as though the world is whirling around us, explains Guy Finley, what we need to understand is that the whirling is not outside of us but is…[more]
Forget this world with its intermittent streams, whose waters begin and end. Search out the Ocean, and stand in Her surge until the waves wash away the shores of your…[more]
We have a chance, explains Guy Finley, to actually begin to recognize and realize what it would mean to be able to sit in a room and not have our…[more]
Anything that you have to control, explains Guy Finley, controls you.
When we attempt to do what is not within our power, explains Guy Finley, we only succeed in making ourselves miserable.
The following short set of questions and answers is taken from the "Ask the Masters" sections that follow the end of each chapter in Guy Finley's newest book, *Let Go…[more]
Taking conscious risks can be such a powerful catalyst for inner change, explains Guy Finley, and involves making a choice to do what's true, in spite of what that choice…[more]
If we could only become quiet enough to listen anew, explains Guy Finley, we would learn that peace is a gift given freely to each of us, right where we…[more]
We must no longer lend ourselves, explains Guy Finley, to the will of any dark state looking to use us as its vehicle.
Guy Finley explains that our experience of life moment-to-moment is, in fact, what we have asked for.
Guy Finley sheds light on the fact that negative reactions to unwanted events do nothing to cure them.
It is not our life that must change, explains Guy Finley, but our view of our life.
Letting go is about learning to die to ourselves psychologically, explains Guy Finley, so that something higher, something "undiminishable" can stand in for us.
A special writing by Guy Finley revealing the path to true change. Originally presented at a classroom talk given on 11/13/05.
We must learn what it means to reach for a whole new place within ourselves, explains Guy Finley, from where it's possible to see that our present thoughts and feelings…[more]
When it comes to letting go and living in the Now, explains Guy Finley, no sincere effort goes unrewarded.
One of the most powerful forces in the universe, explains Guy Finley, is Silence.
The type of prayer that brings true fulfillment, explains Guy Finley, starts not with asking God for what you think you need to be fulfilled, but instead asking God to…[more]
Understanding that we are not our thoughts and feelings, explains Guy Finley, is the first step towards stopping them from ruling our lives.
It is an illusion to believe, explains Guy Finley, that the world our senses reveal is the whole of reality.
Each time, explains Guy Finley, that we actually come to the end of what we know to do and stay there without punishing ourselves or hating life for finding ourselves…[more]
All interior practices, explains Guy Finley, begin with the wish to meet our lives from a new understanding of ourselves granted us through new knowledge about ourselves.
The difference between living Now and living "then," explains Guy Finley, is the difference between living in a thought nature vs. living in our True Nature.
This Now, the real Now, explains Guy Finley, is a perfect integration -- a dynamic mutual convergence of all the creative forces, which is always stirring.
The foundation of self-observation, explains Guy Finley, is a higher self-awareness that puts you in direct contact with a new and superior Intelligence.
Negative states born of nothing other than conflict-filled, comparative thinking, explains Guy Finley, steal into us to squander our peace one hundred times a day.
We are spiritually free, explains Guy Finley, when not one part of us harbors any hatred or resentment for any other human being.
True silence is not just the absence of noise, explains Guy Finley; it is a kind of spiritual medium in which not only are we able to discern what is…[more]
Drop whatever would define and limit you, explains Guy Finley, by bringing yourself back into the great and unconditioned Now where all is one.
This beautiful 8 line verse by Guy Finley reveals the essence of the real Spiritual Path.
The reason why Truth sets you free, explains Guy Finley, is because it alone reveals that what you are held captive by has no reality outside of your wish to…[more]
Each glimpse we get of any character shortfall within us, explains Guy Finley, invites us to walk the one true path towards its perfection.
A special message from Guy Finley about how to make the holiday season better and brighter. Guy explains how it's possible to stop hurting ourselves and the world around us…[more]
This specially crafted poem by Guy Finley complemented his classroom talk on November 7th, 2004.
This special writing complementing Guy's talk of November 21st, 2004, contains hidden treasures that hint at an entirely new way of living.
When we learn to "self-disconnect" we gradually, explains Guy Finley, break down the painful circle-of-self that is repeatedly formed by asking a problem for its solution.
If we are ever to realize, explains Guy Finley, the integrity and consistent kindness of our True Nature, if we long to know something of heaven while we live on…[more]
If we wish to find peace we must understand something of its life. Here are a few such facts: Peace is the natural radiation of a living Now; it is…[more]
The first part of these new lessons in learning to live from your Higher Self and the prayer exercises that attend them is that the next time you feel yourself…[more]
Unconscious conflicts, in dialogue form, play themselves out in our mind by painfully reenacting various scenes from our past; moments gone by in which we either know, or sense, we…[more]
How to deal with the death of a loved one.
The key to rising above our present limitations, explains Guy Finley, is to look beyond our old answers for new and higher understanding.
By transcending the thoughts that keep us a captive of our suffering, explains Guy Finley, we discover that we are already within a higher realm of understanding.
Guy Finley shows us that it is through self-correction, not self-improvement, that true growth takes place.
Inside each of us, explains Guy Finley, resides a seed to be nurtured by something higher.
Deliberately dare to slow down your life when everything in you -- or around you -- is screaming "Rush."
Why is this bold action a prayer? Every person knows what…[more]
Guy Finley explains that a new and true future begins with planting seeds of change in the now.
A special writing by Guy Finley showing that the secret of letting go hinges on the realization that the means in our lives are not really different from the ends.
In this key lesson Guy Finley explains how the now is meant to always be new.
Guy explains how we can begin developing true fearlessness by refusing to follow the commands of the internal pressure that jumps in and immediately tells us what we must now…[more]
Helpful insights from Guy Finley on choosing the higher life we are meant to be a part of.
A short writing by Guy Finley showing how Higher Freedom comes to us in direct proportion to what we are willing to learn about ourselves
Guy Finley explains how to make a fresh start by learning our lessons and dropping regrets instead of carrying painful past experiences forward into our lives.
8 essential spiritual truths that must be learned along the Path to Real Life.
A poem by Guy Finley on the wonders of contemplation.
Discover the hidden Truth about negative states such as fear, worry, anger, and depression. Guy Finley reveals that the reason these states hold us captive is because of our willing…[more]
Guy Finley reveals the unknown treasures hidden in spritual stillness.
Understanding true peace and security.
Helpful ideas about what is required of us if we wish to realize our True Nature, and offering specific examples of how to do the inner work necessary to align…[more]
Learn to let go of any painful past condition!
Letting go of painful resentments.
Real transformation is a task that takes intentional sustained inner work.
The real miracle of letting go.
Meditation & Prayer can show you how to let go and know that Life is complete and so are you!
The secret for dismantling the grief felt from the death of a loved. The same can be applied to the pain felt whenever a part of ourselves experiences a "death"…[more]
Prayer in Action: Seven silent prayers to turn your life around
Learn why the most powerful tool for stress you have is True Silence!
Who we are - the stuff of our soul - is being transformed continuously by the nature of the company we keep, the toxic People.
Real secrets for stress-free living. The answers really do exist!
Whatever dominates us in the moment is what is first in our lives and is useless thinking.
When you want to know peace of mind and the powers that circulate through a quiet mind, you must take yourself to that place where this Silent Strength can make…[more]
Bring an end to the struggle to quiet the mind!
Most of our heartaches and sorrows are the offspring of trying to be something we have no Real need to be.
New knowledge for escaping the punishment of dark thoughts and feelings.
Discover an altogether new kind of peace in your life as you learn to let go.
Listen for God's Voice and Know Freedom
Self-Correction is Self-Elevation
Spiritual Practices and the Presence of God
What Love Has Made Me
Contact With The Secret Self
Put God First
Leave Your Heart in God's Good Keeping
Let Go of Self and Experience Spiritual Rebirth
Take Time Alone and Find Freedom
Life will fill whatever you empty. Be hollow. Let the winds of change play you instead of punish you.
How to deal with negative states.
Anticipation is a special kind of awareness where one is united with the spirit of what comes prior to its arrival
Heal the hurting in you.
Be Receptive to God's Hand at Work in You
