In this video blog, Guy talks about why it is so important to work at spending more and more time each day attending to our interior lives.
Once higher self-understanding is restored to us, the painful problems that are caused by its absence effortlessly disappear.
The Living Light never shows us anything in ourselves that it hasn't already started to change for us.
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 short talk, Guy Finley explains how conscious awareness of tension is the birthing ground of revelation and self-discovery.
The more we imagine a fearless life created by conditions outside of us, the more compelled we feel to try and control those same conditions.
In this short talk, Guy Finley explains how each moment of life is made for anyone and everyone who is present to it. If you are not in this moment,…[more]
The foundation of self-observation is a higher self-awareness that puts you in direct contact with a new and superior Intelligence, a silent wisdom that immediately goes to work in your…[more]
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 why we must come to realize the need to shake ourselves awake as often as possible if we want to be free…[more]
One sure measure of spiritual growth is found in our developing awareness that each and every present moment of our lives is a special kind of spiritual looking glass.
Regardless of when in time, or where on earth, a truth appears, its effect is always the same.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how the 'presence' moment always gives us everything that we need in the moment that it is needed.
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.
The way in which we grow is that we grow into the world above ourselves.
We are meant to go through a transfiguration on this earth, a change internally that leaves our character like nothing it was before.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about why nothing is more valuable than true self-knowledge.
When you begin to be for God before you're for yourself, then God will begin to be there before you.
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]
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 why the mind is always so busy thinking about itself, and how becoming aware of its mechanical activity is the beginning of…[more]
There is an inner gold you can find whose possession fulfills you, regardless of your external circumstances. We can call this inner gold "real self-knowledge."
If we wish a life that is whole and loving, one that is filled with new light, then we must sow the eternal seeds of Truth within ourselves.
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]
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.
We are meant to take part in God's life through awareness of the freedom it continually reveals.
When you begin to doubt everything you believe about your suffering, you will see that you never had to remain in the path of those destructive storms at all.
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]
Anxious thoughts and feelings keep us a prisoner in the world of their empty promises.
The wise are not those most learned, but the best tempered by truths put to the test of life.
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.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about the importance of understanding the need to awaken from spiritual sleep.
In this special short talk, Guy Finley talks about what it means to be truly receptive to the gifts that life wants to give us in each and every moment,…[more]
Whenever some dark storm appears in us, we must awaken to ourselves and bring ourselves back into the Now.
A video collage of Southern Oregon and Life of Learning Foundation, Guy Finley's self-realization school. Opening shots, in order: Oregon Coast, Redwood Forest, Crater Lake, Mt. McLoughlin (Cascade Volcano), Rogue…[more]
The true purpose of self-study is to invite something Good into our lives that then provides us with the unshakable goodness we were previously unable to give ourselves.
Guy Finley explains how we are held ever apart from what we love by the very fact that we would clutch it to our breast.
Guy Finley speaks on themes from his best-selling book The Essential Laws of Fearless Living.
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 talks about an extraordinarily special kind of relationship we can have with real life if we are willing to let each moment reveal to us…[more]
Learning to love what is good, explains Guy Finley, begins with being truthful about what we presently love.
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 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 we can experience truer, brighter, more meaningful relationships with everyone we meet once we learn to put the needs of others before…[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]
Have you ever seen rage in yourself? Generally, we don't want to see certain states within us because we've been conditioned to think of them as bad for us. We…[more]
Never speak out of anger,
Never act out of fear,
Never choose from impatience,
But wait...
and peace will appear.
Make it your moment to moment practice to stay awake, says Guy Finley, and to watch for all the opportunities that your own now presents.
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]
I can think of no greater encouragement in this life than the self-evident truth that within each of us dwells something Extraordinary. By "Extraordinary" I don't mean any one condition…[more]
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]
Guy Finley reminds us that the Living Light never shows us anything in ourselves that it hasn't already started to change for us.
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 explains that we should do what's in our power and refuse to be discouraged about anything else.
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]
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 talks about how our experience of life is a direct result of what we spend our time attending to.
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.
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, author Guy Finley reveals how you can stop being pushed around by the back-and-forth movement of the opposites, and at the same time discover who you really…[more]
Any time is the right time to go quiet, explains author Guy Finley.
True peace, explains Guy Finley, doesn't exist outside of the "now" from out of which it is always unfolding.
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]
We literally give negative states a place to live in our psychic system, explains Guy Finley, by trying to rid ourselves of them in the usual ways.
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?
In this extraordinary podcast, Guy Finley reveals the higher understanding that is necessary to find the Truly Fearless Life!
Guy Finley discusses panic attacks and the fearful, mechanical thoughts that terrorize an unawakened mind. Learn the secret of knowing that all is well when you realize the truth that…[more]
Real Life never disappears! In this special Memorial Day podcast, Guy Finley talks in detail about how Real Life is found in loving what IS.
To sow spiritual seeds, explains Guy Finley, means that we do spiritual work.
There is never a need to rush anywhere, explains Guy Finley, for all that we can hope to be already lives inside of us.
In this podcast, Guy Finley explains how every human being is meant to be a unique expression of the Intelligence of our Living Universe.
We are created -- and each of us is intended, explains Guy Finley -- to discover the truth of ourselves within ourselves.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how our minds react to what Truth is revealing within us.
The unsure self that not only looks for, but attaches itself to codependent relationships -- cannot possibly be the real you. Let's see why this statement has to be true.…[more]
Guy Finley explains that when you want what life wants, your wish is for life itself.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how there is nothing more important than to Be Awake.
Real hope for the world, explains Guy Finley, begins with discovering what it takes to become a new human being.
Popular today is the phrase "be true to yourself." But what in the world does that actually mean? In this podcast, Guy Finley explains the True meaning of this popular…[more]
Awakening to who we are created to be, explains Guy Finley, is the first step in letting go of all that holds us captive.
In this audio clip, Guy Finley reveals why it is so important to wake up and come back to the present moment, instead of being lost in a dream.
Drop whatever would define and limit you, explains Guy Finley, by bringing yourself back into the great and unconditioned Now where all is one.
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]
One of the most shocking and necessary discoveries along the path, explains Guy Finley, is that what we love does not love us
If inner dialogues were left to themselves as they popped into our mind, explains Guy Finley, they'd be as powerless to disturb us as an echo is to change its…[more]
Counter to popular opinion, real success is not measured by the amount of our possessions. Simply stated, the truth is that real success -- ultimately the only success -- is…[more]
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.
There is no substitute, explains Guy Finley, for seeing the truth of our actual spiritual situation.
Any lingering sadness, explains Guy Finley, is an unnatural life-form kept breathing by the false self's reluctance to let it go.
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]
Real self-knowledge, explains Guy Finley, provides a glimpse of the expansive world that awaits us.
Guy Finley shows us that any desperate attempt to escape a trouble usually leads us right back into more trouble.
As we learn how to listen to the sounds of life within ourselves, explains Guy Finley, we open up to life's endless relationships.
Guy Finley explains how one's inner nature determines one's experience of the outer life.
Like the invisible winds that move the branches on the trees, explains Guy Finley, we live in a world of an unseen, but ceaseless, flood of thoughts and feelings.
Every step along the way to a higher independent life, explains Guy Finley, is both the challenge and the reward.
By deliberately slowing yourself down, explains Guy Finley, when everything in you seems to be screaming, "Rush," you will become inwardly awake.
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.
No one can give us the approval we seek, explains Guy Finley, because it isn't his or hers to give
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]
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]
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]
Guy Finley reminds us that no negative state wants what is right for you.
It's only what you do right this moment, right Now, explains Guy Finley, that's the seed of personal change.
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]
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.
It's only what you do right now that is the seed of change, explains Guy Finley.
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]
The first step in the right rebellion to reclaim your own life, explains Guy Finley, is to learn what it means to think about yourself instead of from yourself.
A poem by Guy Finley which expresses gratitude for Higher Love.
Guy Finley discusses the Bible as a revelation of Truth and a resource for living the awakened life.
Before we can learn to free ourselves from our own fearful reactions to unwanted events, explains Guy Finley, we must realize just how worthless fear actually is.
To enter the silent world of peace, explains Guy Finley, requires that we learn the secret of being still.
Guy Finley discusses the path to true self-transformation, of growing beyond the nature in us that re-configures itself based on images from the past.
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.
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]
Guy Finley reminds us that we do not have to share a single moment with the memory of anything that we don't want to, including painful memories, disappointments or regrets.
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]
We are not created to be self-filling beings, explains Guy Finley, but instead are meant to empty ourselves in order to be filled by our Higher purpose.
We are spiritually free, explains Guy Finley, when not one part of us harbors any hatred or resentment for any other human being.
Drop whatever would define and limit you, explains Guy Finley, by bringing yourself back into the great and unconditioned Now where all is one.
In order to change what we currently get from life, explains Guy Finley, we must first learn that we cannot separate our answers from our actions and our actions from…[more]
Guy Finley discusses how we can fulfill the promise and potential of our lives and realize true success through living the awakened life and by developing self-seeing in the present…[more]
Guy Finley gives us ten ways to see through the false thoughts that would have us believe we must suffer because of them.
*(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]
Looking for ourselves in the eyes of others throws us behind the walls of a psychic prison. The door slams shut each time we find ourselves feeling good about ourselves…[more]
Guy Finley suggests a test for evaluating your own level of inner freedom. Learn to drop discouragement over any limitations and to awaken the secret part of you that has…[more]
Instead of letting fear lead you off the path and into the dark, explains Guy Finley, remain true to your course and watch it disappear.
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.
The true answer to any problem we find ourselves in is not found in our thoughts about it, but rather in our willingness to allow new light to reveal its…[more]
Seeing that thoughts do nothing more than keep us firmly entrenched in pyschic slumber, explains Guy Finley, is the first step to learning to live in the untroubled Now.
Guy Finley shows us that it is through self-correction, not self-improvement, that true growth takes place.
When we practice, explains Guy Finley, at not using our own thoughts to tell us what's happening in any given situation, we allow the circumstances of the event to be…[more]
Guy Finley discusses how to get past justifying weakness and negative states through awareness of our pained condition and surrendering ourselves to a higher strength.
Guy Finley teaches us that as we begin to remember our true intentions in the moments when we need them most, we break the repetitious circle of Self that never…[more]
The present moment, where our being and and our nature meet, is the instant of our destiny. But how to get there?
Guy Finley explains that a new and true future begins with planting seeds of change in the now.
A comprehensive list from Guy Finley of keys to knowing you're on Freedom's Path.
In this lesson Guy Finley explains how we can either choose to get negative about other people's bad behavior (which doesn't help us), or we can choose a different kind…[more]
Understanding our spiritual weakness is the key to following through on our good intentions.
Guy Finley addresses common questions on the topic of self-awareness.
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]
A writing by Guy Finley extracted from The Secret of Letting Go revealing the secrets of what it takes to take control of our lives.
Understanding true peace and security.
Awakening: How to change our destination and arrive at that Higher World!
True self-help through transcendence, not struggle.
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.
Meditation & Prayer can show you how to let go and know that Life is complete and so are you!
Teach others in a right way about spritual principles.
Learn to Be A Self-Starting Individual Instead of a Self-Stalling One!
10 Exercises for increasing your spiritual memory. Remember that every effort you make to remember to remember God increases His interest in you.
New knowledge for escaping the punishment of dark thoughts and feelings.
Being Present to Ourselves in the Now
Going Beyond the Limitations of Thoughts
Find strength, peace and quietude in God's Will
Discover ten powerful new ways to begin changing your view of your own life. Plus learn the one power greater than any disturbance.
Put God First
Let Higher Facts Free You From a Painful Past
We are born with a nature that can meet life new every moment
Bring more light into your life by patient inner investigation.
You need never suffer again.
How to be for yourself by being for the Truth.
Face challenges with the key that unlocks the door to a free mind.
It does not matter how you take the road. All that really matters is that you take it.
Anticipation is a special kind of awareness where one is united with the spirit of what comes prior to its arrival
Cling Fast to Your Aim and Strive to Be True
Heal the hurting in you.
Don't Settle for a Stream When the Ocean Belongs to You
