Life -- this moment and every moment -- is a school for the education of the soul.
In this short talk, Guy Finley explains how everything that exists was made for us to discover our true nature.
In this short talk, Guy Finley discusses the need to be nourished by a new kind of understanding that appears when we can no longer tolerate giving our lives away…[more]
In this short talk, Guy Finley discusses the importance of understanding the idea of "levels and scale" inside of our own consciousness, so that we can gradually begin to break…[more]
Guy Finley discusses our role in making this a better world, and how our actions do make a difference. Visit OneJourney.net for more information.
Ours is the power to choose what we will and will not give our power to.
In this short talk, Guy Finley explains how our sincere wish to act rightly in the moment will attract the authentic higher help that we need to change.
To change our relationship with life, to realize its unlimited song, we must bravely learn what it means to hear all of ourselves.
Part of the Truth's rescuing action is to reveal to us that we are not apart from what we see.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how the mind's painful struggle to understand any given moment actually prevents the true understanding of the moment from reaching us.
Darkness, in whatever form we experience it -- from a simple black, starless night, to a depressed thought or feeling -- only exists in the absence of light.
One thing that makes it so difficult to drop feeling sorry for ourselves is how real it feels when we are full of self-regret. But any perception of reality that…[more]
Self-observation is the key to a higher order of awareness; it is how we learn to become inwardly vigilant to our own thoughts and feelings, even as they pass through…[more]
The punishing pressure we feel in this life is not because of what life is but because of what we perceive life isn't.
Beginning this very moment, intentionally separate yourself from any rushing inner condition by voluntarily stepping out of it. Here's how...
Once higher self-understanding is restored to us, the painful problems that are caused by its absence effortlessly disappear.
The next time you want to go ahead with any project -- whether it's designing a rocket ship, or finally getting around to repairing your favorite rocking chair -- and…[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]
Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.
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.
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.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about our common need for a higher kind of love that releases us from feelings of fear, doubt and hopelessness.
The only way it's possible to truly deliver ourselves from the punishment of our own self-wrecking thoughts is to begin awakening to their hidden cause within us.
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 how true fearlessness is intimately connected to our sincere wish to ceaselessly discover more and more about God's life.
It's imperative to meet each moment of your life with this realization: it's only what you do right now that is the seed of change.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how it is possible for us to discover an authentically new life if we will persist with our wish to know the…[more]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how painful tension persists because we are relying on something outside of ourselves to tell us who we are.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how we are here as human beings to continually perfect our self-understanding so that we can begin to enter into an awakened relationship…[more]
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.
We can either spend our lives fearful of any unwanted event that comes along to challenge our sense of self, or we can use that same situation to help set…[more]
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about a new action we can take to find freedom from negative states.
As life pours itself out in the stream of passing time, and we run into challenges seemingly greater than our ability to answer -- each of these encounters "asks" this…[more]
Self-limiting thoughts or feelings have power over us only when we are tricked into believing that we need something we don't.
The wish itself -- to be a higher person -- comes to you from a higher place and is received in its inner equivalent within you.
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]
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]
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 short talk, Guy Finley talks about how we can learn to let go of unnecessary inner states like stress and anxiety by becoming conscious of their presence within…[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]
Anxious thoughts and feelings keep us a prisoner in the world of their empty promises.
Guy Finley discusses the resolutions necessary to make real and lasting changes in our lives. Learn what it means to use insights and higher knowledge to reach for a whole…[more]
No one is free who lives with fear.
In order for change to take place, we must be changed.
Before something genuinely new can appear in our lives, something old must pass.
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 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.
Guy Finley discusses releasing guilt, shame, regret, and remorse over harmful things we may have done in the past, as well as fears of eternal damnation for choices that may…[more]
If we wish to have true harmonious relationships with others, then it is we who must change.
No intention can be any stronger than our ability to remember it in the moment that it is needed.
In this podcast, Guy Finley explains that true self-command becomes possible when we begin to consciously interrupt the momentum of the unconscious nature that is presently in control of our…[more]
Guy Finley discusses our native right to live fearlessly, and the courage, resolution, and persistence required to prove our fears groundless. Learn more about rising above the limitations of your…[more]
It is not enough to just passively receive the lessons we are given. We must act upon their revelations and further clarify their import.
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]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the great importance of being willing to see everything that we can about ourselves.
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.
In our willingness to journey to what seems the end of us, we are gifted with the understanding that there is no ending to our True Self.
The person in denial of his or her own condition continues to ask for more of what didn't help the last time around.
You can wake yourself up, explains Guy Finley, just as many times as you're willing to catch yourself in daydreams where you're the star.
It is impossible to feel ourselves a "failure" without having first condemned ourselves for some shortcoming, explains Guy Finley.
Guy Finley explains how to learn to ask for a happy, new life by refusing to relive what's been tearing at you.
Outgrowing Relationships - Learn why walking the authentic spiritual path necessarily causes some relationships to fall away.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about what it would mean for us to let real life sound its essential notes within us without the unnecessary dissonance of our resistance.
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.
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]
Intentionally separate yourself from any rushing inner condition, explains Guy Finley, by voluntarily stepping out of it.
In this podcast, Guy Finley tells a timeless story that underscores the need we have as human beings to know our true nature.
Guy Finley reminds us that the truth never causes pain.
In this revealing podcast, Guy Finley talks about how attending to the true needs of others also allows us to discover our own limitless possibilities.
We can gain new self-knowledge, explains Guy Finley, through the observation of the fact that everything is changing.
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 absolute fact that it is never too late to open yourself up to the possibility of being a better human being and…[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]
The missing half of our lives, explains Guy Finley, is letting go.
The weakness that blames others, explains Guy Finley, blinds you to your real inner condition.
By deliberately slowing yourself down when everything in you seems to be screaming, "Rush," you will become inwardly awake, explains Guy Finley.
Stress, explains Guy Finley, is a result of a false or incomplete view of reality imposed upon us by our own unenlightened nature.
In this short talk, Guy Finley explores how a true spiritual warrior is not someone who imagines future victories to come, but is the individual who is willing to step…[more]
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]
It is our own narrow mind, with its narrow view of life, explains Guy Finley, that pressurizes our events and their moments.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about what it means to be properly responsive to the present moment, as opposed to getting lost in worried thoughts about what action to…[more]
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.
In this podcast, Guy Finley explains why it is so important to stand in the real light of awareness and become truly conscious of the parts of ourselves that supply…[more]
Guy Finley reminds us that seen or not, our attitude determines our altitude in life.
Guy Finley addresses concern about responding to the current financial crisis and stress over job loss, encouraging us to remain as receptive as we can to the lessons meant to…[more]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the unseen connection between lying and having enemies.
In this extraordinary podcast, Guy Finley reveals the higher understanding that is necessary to Let Go and find the Truly Fearless and Free Life!
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.
Love is a latent interior "hunger" we all feel through our longing to know -- deeply -- someone or something to which we are drawn. And Love understands that whatever…[more]
The following six lessons contain special understanding about the nature of invisible pressure-filled states that cause human beings to run themselves ragged. The clearer we can see the reasons for…[more]
Why try and change your outer world, asks Guy Finley, when it is only a reflection of your inner life?
Guy Finley discusses the "Lighter" -- secretly bright -- side of uncertainty, and reveals how our True Nature can lift us above the fear and worry that would pull us…[more]
If we want a whole life, explains Guy Finley, we must be whole human beings.
Never again look for a way out of any anxious condition, explains Guy Finley. Look instead for a way to see through it.
In this podcast, best-selling author Guy Finley talks about what it really means to be yourself.
True freedom is not an achievement, explains Guy Finley; it is our awakened relationship and participation with the genesis of real life.
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]
As we are coming to see, within each of us dwells a Light -- an awareness capable not only of observing the host of invisible forces that forge life itself,…[more]
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.
What we really want isn't power to control the dark conditions around us, explains Guy Finley, but to be part of a new brighter and higher world within ourselves where…[more]
The light from one small moment of honest self-inquiry, explains Guy Finley, is more powerful than the accumulated darkness of a million years of doubt.
Guy Finley explains that when you want what life wants, your wish is for life itself.
Guy Finley explains that if our peace is built upon worldly forms, then it will be, at best, a temporary peace.
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.
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]
Starting life over again is the key to a new you, explains Guy Finley.
Guy Finley explains that nothing in life can stop you from starting your life all over.
Guy Finley explains that true prayer must begin with a genuine request.
Guy Finley discusses how to keep alive the zeal for awakening and self-work, and to persist on the path to self-knowledge. Learn about the self-honesty that allows you to overcome…[more]
Whenever we find ourselves in some "unwanted" part of ourselves, perhaps reliving an old heartache or caught in the throes of some irrepressible anger, old fear, or unyielding worry, part…[more]
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 speaks about spiritual balance, alignment, and the natural flow of the present moment.
Who you really are, explains Guy Finley, is an endless learning ground, a limitless possibility for higher and higher self-discovery.
The object of any desire, explains Guy Finley, is powerless to bring an end to the desire that created it.
Fighting the storm by resisting its winds and rain, explains Guy Finley, will do no good.
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]
Nothing can grow true, strong, and healthy that lives under the dark shadow of abuse -- whether it's an abusive relationship or the abuse inflicted by mean-spirited thoughts and feelings.…[more]
A special writing by Guy Finley on what it truly means to be a peaceful and peace-filled human being.
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]
Learning to step out of the rush, explains Guy Finley, is the same as learning how to step into your own life.
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.
Guy Finley explains the power in seeing that we are actively involved with unseen thoughts and feelings that compromise us.
Here is the secret to releasing physical tension and mental pain from your life forever. Learn these three simple steps and you will never be the same again.
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]
Do you ever experience a nagging feeling that something is missing in your life? In this talk Guy Finley explains why this feeling exists and what you can do to…[more]
If we will courageously examine every frightening thought that goes through our minds to see if it is based in reality, explains Guy Finley, we will eventually discover that there…[more]
We are create, explains Guy Finley, with the capability of realizing the timeless truth of ourselves.
A special writing by Guy Finley which poignantly expresses the path we must take if we are to find God's Love. Originally presented at a classroom talk given on 8/2/06.
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.
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]
Anything that you have to control, explains Guy Finley, controls you.
We live in a world, explains Guy Finley, that is established for us to succeed in realizing that within us dwells an Intelligence beyond fear.
It's only what you do right this moment, right Now, explains Guy Finley, that's the seed of personal change.
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.
A young woman once decided that her best chance of getting hired by a company doing geological survey work in the Alaskan wilderness was to earn a private license to…[more]
Guy Finley explores how it is that you can make yourself miserable but you can't make yourself happy.
Events may happen to you, explains Guy Finley, but you are not the event.
To succeed spiritually, to discover the new man or woman waiting within us, explains Guy Finley, requires going beyond being the thought-based, self-conceived creatures we are at present.
Guy Finley explains that our experience of life moment-to-moment is, in fact, what we have asked for.
Learn why persistence is such a critical part of your spiritual work.
Guy Finley helps us to see that "scary" life-moments are as powerless to punish us as is a make-believe monster on the movie screen.
In pure barrenness, explains Guy Finley, there dwells an honest beauty.
It is not our life that must change, explains Guy Finley, but our view of our life.
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.
Nothing in life, explains Guy Finley, can stop you from starting your life all over, at anytime.
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]
Guy Finley gives insight into how to get past feeling overwhelmed by what needs to be done and set about the task of doing our work.
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]
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.
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.
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]
Learn to look at all difficult moments as opportunities to come awake to yourself, explains Guy Finley, and a place from which you can practice stepping outside of stressful thoughts.
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.
Guy Finley discusses the nature of true empowerment and how we can overcome stress in our lives by realizing a new kind of inner strength that never fails us.
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]
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]
Guy Finley shows us that, no matter how hard it seems to start fresh or learn something new, who you really are is greater than any part of yourself which…[more]
Guy Finley outlines the ten traits of a True Spiritual Warrior.
This special writing complementing Guy's talk of November 21st, 2004, contains hidden treasures that hint at an entirely new way of living.
Guy Finley describes for us how a higher conscious awareness empowers us to be one with all that exists in the kingdom of creation.
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]
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.
By rising above any self-righteousness that wants us to blame others for how we feel, explains Guy Finley, we gain an entirely new perspective on this useless reaction and learn…[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.
The only thing that holds us down is what we don't yet know about ourselves. This insight explains why our ability to learn the truth about ourselves, to increase our…[more]
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.
The greatest, most abundant resource on planet Earth is also its least understood and utilized. Its unlimited supply is found virtually everywhere, anytime, and under all circumstances, even though few…[more]
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]
Kindness is something we all value and wish we are known for. Learn how to make kindness alive in your life.
Guy Finley explains that staying on the path to a truly awakened life requires continually saying NO to those unconscious parts of us that are full of doubt and darkness.
In this key lesson Guy Finley explains how the now is meant to always be new.
In this lesson, Guy Finley illustrates how we can begin to become aware of the unconscious chain of pain and conflict that we pass along to others when we are…[more]
Guy Finley shows how we can reclaim our natural internal energy by seeing where it is that we are currently wasting them.
Guy Finley shows how our experience of life is a direct result of who and what we are, and how we can begin today to bring about a new experience…[more]
Guy Finley shows how we can begin enjoying True Success by agreeing to accept the lessons life has for us.
Guy Finley explains how to step out from under the pressure of surging thoughts and feelings that would otherwise keep us caught in the cycle of rushing.
A lesson revealing the extra effort needed on our part to realize True Freedom.
Guy Finley shows how we can use the appearance of pressure and stress within us to shake ourselves awake.
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]
In Recovery the Light from one small moment of honest self-inquiry is more powerful than the accumulated darkness of a million years of doubt.
How to make a truly Fresh Start starting over!
Real transformation is a task that takes intentional sustained inner work.
Ending disturbances by learning to understand the nature of life changes.
Taking full pleasure in life's joyful, renewal of experiences.
Seeing through self-destructive anxiety.
Learn to see through any anxious condition of feeling overwhelmed.
Learn why the most powerful tool for stress you have is True Silence!
Your conscious participation in inner exercises, such as these five practices, is the only way to awaken the will you need so that one day you never have to answer…[more]
Real secrets for stress-free living. The answers really do exist!
Guy reveals a powerful secret for peaceful living through learning to want what Life wants.
Let Higher Facts Free You From a Painful Past
Learn about your individual level of inner freedom.
Life will fill whatever you empty. Be hollow. Let the winds of change play you instead of punish you.
Find Balance, Find Perfect Peace
