Once higher self-understanding is restored to us, the painful problems that are caused by its absence effortlessly disappear.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how we are all intended to understand the purpose of this life, which is to be a conscious participate in the moment-to-moment…[more]
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about the life-saving wisdom of becoming aware of the various thoughts, feelings and states that move through us, rather than wasting our energy…[more]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the true reward that comes with being willing to stand within what the light of awareness wants to reveal to us about ourselves.
When at last we see how our present sense of self is little more than a derivative of relationships with things outside of us, and realize that most of our…[more]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the difference between merely thinking about spiritual ideas and the actual awareness of the truth of ourselves in the present moment.
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]
The present moment, where our being and our nature meet, is the instant of our destiny.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about the fact that we can grow into an ever-expanding relationship with truth because something of that truth already dwells within us.
Just as a storm in the atmosphere of the earth is born of conflicting fronts of different temperatures colliding with one another, so too must there be conflicting forces within…[more]
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how real revelation of the truth of ourselves transforms the character that has been revealed.
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.
In this short talk, Guy Finley explains why the unconscious imitation of anyone else is the repetition of the known, and why real freedom cannot be found in familiarity.
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 explains how conscious awareness of tension is the birthing ground of revelation and self-discovery.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about the importance of being present to what each moment reveals to us about ourselves.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how there is nothing in the world more practical than true spiritual principles.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how a still and attentive mind perfectly reflects the "presence" moment.
If we're to succeed in our search for wholeness, we not only require a new and higher order of self-knowledge, but one that must also take us in a completely…[more]
Listen in as Guy Finley discusses with Dr. Ellen Dickstein some of the important ideas connected to the release of his forthcoming book, The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred. Then…[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.
We are meant to go through a transfiguration on this earth, a change internally that leaves our character like nothing it was before.
The true nature of anything -- whether a newly opened leaf or a fearful thought or feeling -- is inseparable from what it serves.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about a new action we can take to find freedom from negative states.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how we can realize and enter into a higher life that is greater than ourselves.
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.
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.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how freedom from unhappiness and frustration appears naturally as we learn to let go of false purposes.
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.
The only thing of which you can be certain at any point in your life is what you are able to see about yourself in that moment. Which means the…[more]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how we are intended to use all of life's moments to grow into a more fully integrated and meaningful relationship with real life.
The "healing" we need, the sense of wholeness for which we search, has nothing to do with adding anything to ourselves.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how any beautiful moment that we experience in this life is the expression of a timeless beauty that is waiting to be discovered…[more]
We can and must begin to understand the spiritual life before we can live it. But we can't begin to understand something that is above us until we begin to…[more]
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 short talk, Guy Finley talks about how a real love for what is true and Divine requires that we agree to see ourselves as we actually are.
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.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the potential we possess to live from a higher part of ourselves that is always in a harmonious relationship with the present moment.
If we wish to have true harmonious relationships with others, then it is we who must change.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the great importance of being willing to see everything that we can about ourselves.
Real self-command dawns within us as we realize that reliving the past is powerless to change a present misunderstanding.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how a real spiritual life becomes possible for us when we begin to act on what we know is true.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how every moment is actually a divine communication that wants to reveal to us our own limitless possibilities.
Within the space of each beat of your heart, you get the exact measure of the answer you gave to life the moment before.
The only way to leave the world of feeling sorry for yourself is to deliberately leave the world of thought.
The person in denial of his or her own condition continues to ask for more of what didn't help the last time around.
Love lends her force to the entire universe, explains Guy Finley -- so don't you think that if you were to ask rightly for a bit of it that She…[more]
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]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about an altogether new kind of victory that can be ours if we will agree to see what the present moment reveals within us.
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.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how we can achieve a greatness beyond imagination through a conscious relationship with the living source of greatness itself.
Guy Finley speaks about how it's possible to live completely free from fear, worry, and other self-limiting thoughts and feelings.
Guy Finley discusses the true nature of responsibility to ourselves and to others and how we can begin to lay down the weight of the false responsibilities and beliefs that…[more]
To agree to sleep our way through life is to lose everything, explains Guy Finley, because it rules out the possibility of our soul's awakening.
In this podcast, Guy Finley tells a timeless story that underscores the need we have as human beings to know our true nature.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how nothing but good can come to those who place the love of light before all else.
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]
In this special podcast featuring music performed live at Life of Learning Foundation in Southern Oregon, Guy Finley talks about the music and rhythm of life itself, and how we…[more]
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 next time you run into some familiar blockage or begin to feel unsuited to face some new and difficult personal challenge, don't do what you've always done before. *Don't…[more]
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 what it would mean to allow every impression that touches your heart and mind to stir you as it is intended.
No human being needs control over life, explains Guy Finley, because in reality, no one is apart from it.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the choice we have to either passively exist -- having our lives lived for us -- or to become conscious that we are…[more]
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.
We must stop trying to create conditions for ourselves, explains Guy Finley, through which we hope to escape the fear of our own emptiness.
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.
Everyone wonders whether or not there is one Great Secret for truly successful living. Guy Finley explains that there is.
You do not need to remain the victim of fear, explains Guy Finley.
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]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how conflict is born in those moments when our expectations about how life ought to unfold meet reality.
The real gifts given to us by Truth are more plentiful that our minds could possibly imagine. In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about what the healing action of truth…[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]
On one hand we are made to live out our physical existence in the world of passing time. This is the world we are all familiar with. It is the…[more]
In this podcast, best-selling author Guy Finley reveals what stands in the way of human beings having a real relationship with wholeness and love.
Our purpose in life, explains Guy Finley, should be to challenge and rise above every wrong feeling by finding the higher ground within.
Guy Finley explains that it's what we do inwardly -- with what takes place outwardly -- that alone has the power to transform our lives.
In this podcast, best-selling author Guy Finley talks about what it really means to be yourself.
Any time is the right time to go quiet, explains author Guy Finley.
In this podcast, Guy Finley explains how being true to ourselves is the same thing as not resisting what life brings to us.
What good is the light of any lamp in the dark, asks Guy Finley, if we forget to take that lamp with us out into the night?
To sow spiritual seeds, explains Guy Finley, means that we do spiritual work.
Right within us, as an unseen aspect of our True Nature, resides the entire range of relationships that the universe has to offer.
Tired of going in painful circles in your life? In this talk Guy Finley reveals the secret of finally moving out of what may feel like a meaningless existence into…[more]
Guy Finley explains that we are not here to make something of ourselves, but rather are meant to allow the Light to make of us what it will.
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.
efore we can enter, and live in, the higher realm of the Free Mind, explains Guy Finley, we must learn to see our life through its eyes.
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.
Guy Finley speaks about spiritual balance, alignment, and the natural flow of the present moment.
We can never hope to be free, as Guy Finley explains, as long as any part of us struggles with, or suffers over what others are doing, have done, or…[more]
Each moment of the day -- no matter what comes your way, explains Guy Finley -- let what you remember as being true about Love always be your guide.
It is not what life has brought to you that you don't like, explains Guy Finley. It is your reactions that turn the gift of life into the resentment of…[more]
In this talk Guy Finley describes why inner tension, fear, and a sense of limitation exist, and then gives the listener an amazing but simple exercise to move beyond all…[more]
We are create, explains Guy Finley, with the capability of realizing the timeless truth of ourselves.
Guy Finley explains that before you can have a different life -- before you can be happier, wiser, more at peace, and in quiet command of yourself -- you must…[more]
It is not negative to see the negative in us, explains Guy Finley, since it is the perfectly positive that makes this kind of seeing into ourselves possible.
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]
What would you think of a mother or father who starts yelling at their 5 year-old son because he didn't prepare dinner? It would be a terrible thing. Intuitively we…[more]
Guy explains that one of the primary reasons why we don't change is because there's no space in our life. He shows how real change requires we agree to the…[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.
The quality of our life, explains Guy Finley, is first and foremost an expression of the level of our understanding.
There is no moment, explains Guy Finley, in which the whole of the turning of the universe isn't producing a corresponding turning in the soul.
Guy Finley explores how it is that you can make yourself miserable but you can't make yourself happy.
Anything within you that tells you there is no point in beginning to do something that you would love to do, explains Guy Finley, is not just your enemy but…[more]
Guy Finley explains that our experience of life moment-to-moment is, in fact, what we have asked for.
In pure barrenness, explains Guy Finley, there dwells an honest beauty.
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]
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]
Guy Finley reminds us that just as the sun never quits the sky but only waits for the earth to turn and face the light, so, too, must we turn…[more]
Each of us has a secret character hidden away in us, explains Guy Finley, that is created for just the alchemical purpose of transforming any dark influence into a beneficial…[more]
Guy Finley discusses the concerns of householders with regard to fulfilling responsibilities while on the spiritual path.
If we can see, explains Guy Finley, how positive inner states lead to positive life experiences, then we can also see that negative inner states must attract negative results.
We are spiritually free, explains Guy Finley, when not one part of us harbors any hatred or resentment for any other human being.
This beautiful 8 line verse by Guy Finley reveals the essence of the real Spiritual Path.
This special writing complementing Guy's talk of November 21st, 2004, contains hidden treasures that hint at an entirely new way of living.
*(The following short set of questions and answers is taken from special sections following the end of each chapter in Guy Finley's newest book, **Let Go and Live in the…[more]
Leading by example, explains Guy Finley, is often accomplished by what we don't do, such as by not passing negativity on to others but instead bearing it within ourselves.
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]
Guy Finley discusses the purpose behind the seasonal changes of our inner life and how we can embrace them as the spiritual teachings meant for us.
Our willingness to see the difference between real and false strength, explains Guy Finley, is what allows us to achieve a whole new kind of life.
Inside each of us, explains Guy Finley, resides a seed to be nurtured by something higher.
Persistence and faith on our inner journeys, explains Guy Finley, will be rewarded with enough spiritual gold to last an eternity.
Guy Finley explains that a new and true future begins with planting seeds of change in the now.
Our life on Earth is a spiritual path. Our life is our path. There is no other. The path to the perfected life, to fulfilling the promise of our True…[more]
In this short writing Guy Finley explains how we must revisit the same painful lessons over and over again until we begin to put the Truth first in our lives.…[more]
Guy Finley shows how we can reclaim our natural internal energy by seeing where it is that we are currently wasting them.
A poem by Guy Finley on the wonders of contemplation.
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]
Insights in the the nature of real spiritual success.
Prayer in Action: Seven silent prayers to turn your life around
Meditation & Prayer can show you how to let go and know that Life is complete and so are you!
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!
Find your true purpose in life!
Our Life's Purpose and the reason we were created is to fulfill the possibility of purpose and promise in our lives.
The 10 voluntary exercises below are for would-be Angels who want to develop their wings. Each is designed to help increase higher self-awareness.
Find strength, peace and quietude in God's Will
Be Fashioned by the Master Jeweler's Hand
Spiritual Practices and the Presence of God
What Love Has Made Me
The Soul is created to transcend itself, beyond what we think possible
Put God First
Leave Your Heart in God's Good Keeping
Wake Up and Take Part in God's Great Symphony
Let Go of Self and Experience Spiritual Rebirth
Life will fill whatever you empty. Be hollow. Let the winds of change play you instead of punish you.
It does not matter how you take the road. All that really matters is that you take it.
What is our purpose in life?
Cycling of vanity with life-in-vain goes on until you see the cost of a self-filling self. Then you commence on the good work of giving yourself up.
Find Balance, Find Perfect Peace
