How do we find others who are also searching for their true selves?
In this short talk, Guy explains how we cannot fail if we will persevere through our darkest moments, because the light never fails to illuminate what presently hides in the…[more]
In this video, Guy Finley explains that true love reveals to us what we need to see about ourselves so that we can develop a more perfect relationship with what…[more]
Guy Finley explains that everything you need to succeed and to change the kind of human being you are is already provided for you.
In this short talk, Guy Finley discusses the mind's compulsive habit of judging other people, which is an unfortunate waste of time and energy that would better be spent attending…[more]
Guy Finley talks about the importance of never meeting a child's negative state on the same level of negativity. To truly help a child who is negative we must observe…[more]
Looking for the power to be happy is not found in a person, place, possession, idea, or belief, but through the new understanding that your higher, permanent nature needs no…[more]
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.
Instead of putting our attention on what others have done or said, we must turn our attention inward.
Our spiritual task, assuming we are stirred to seek this truth of ourselves, is to awaken ourselves to the Light that first invites us, and then unites us with its…[more]
Choosing to keep the company of truth is the same as choosing to lose all the false "friends" that presently limit you.
No grief or disturbance of any kind is yours.
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]
Our present experience of life, for its happiness or sorrow, is nothing more or less than what certain unconscious parts of us tell us it is. This means that before…[more]
The fear of being alone in life feels real, no doubt; but it belongs to an imagined self.
There may be no greater self-deception than the false notion that rushing through anything actually helps us in any way whatsoever. After all, if anxious thoughts and feelings had any…[more]
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 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]
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.
The Living Light never shows us anything in ourselves that it hasn't already started to change for us.
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]
We all know what it's like to find ourselves unhappy and in conflict with someone who just isn't giving us what we want or need from him or her. Whenever…[more]
Our task, if we want to be free human beings -- if we want a life in which we no longer carry around with us "what he did," "what she…[more]
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.
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]
We have not been given this precious life in order to go through it resisting everything that doesn't suit us; rather we are created to grow through whatever we meet…[more]
If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that is never satisfied.
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 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.
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 podcast, Guy Finley talks about why nothing is more valuable than true self-knowledge.
It is never the people we are around that cause us negative reactions. These reactions arise out of what we secretly want from people.
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]
There is nothing in the universe that can stop us from growing, except our habitual, mechanical nature.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how our level of happiness is ultimately determined by our level of self-understanding.
The wish itself -- to be a higher person -- comes to you from a higher place and is received in its inner equivalent within you.
Real compassion has to do with realizing that conscious relationship is the root of our existence, trying to get us to wake up a little bit and enter into those…[more]
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]
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.
Higher inner awareness grants you patience and new forms of consideration, because now you realize just how much pain everyone is really in.
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.
Whatever suffering you agree to shoulder not only helps to lighten the load of those in need, but also serves to awaken within you the strength you need to be…[more]
In order for change to take place, we must be changed.
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]
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]
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.
We have been the unwitting servants of a thought nature whose appetite is unappeasable.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how we can use everything that we encounter in our relationships with others to change ourselves.
It is not enough to just passively receive the lessons we are given. We must act upon their revelations and further clarify their import.
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.
We want to be free, and to be free means to understand what the path of freedom is about.
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.
Discussion of gratitude and the secret to recognizing the Love behind everything that happens to us. Find out more about expressions of thankfulness including tithing, being grateful for the difficult…[more]
Time and time again, we come to the same spiritual lesson: no one can give us that which can only be found within our Self.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about why we must not be afraid to discover everything that we need to know about 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.
The company we keep, explains Guy Finley, refers both to the kinds of people outside of us and the presence of accompanying thoughts and feelings circulating within us.
Guy Finley speaks on themes from his best-selling book The Essential Laws of Fearless Living.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how our awareness of the true needs of other human beings heralds within us the birth of true compassion.
Outgrowing Relationships - Learn why walking the authentic spiritual path necessarily causes some relationships to fall away.
Guy Finley explains that the Truth asks us to give it its way in our lives.
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.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how our experience of life is a direct reflection of the kind of psychological company that we keep.
Learning to love what is good, explains Guy Finley, begins with being truthful about what we presently love.
There is a hidden part of you that knows, without thinking about it, how to always be perfectly relaxed, carefree, and in command. This higher intellectual and emotional intelligence is…[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]
The weakness that blames others, explains Guy Finley, blinds you to your real inner condition.
In this valuable podcast, Guy Finley talks about the higher intention and purpose behind the idea of "remembering yourself". Listen closely and learn about a beautiful, timeless principle that you…[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.
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 how whatever weight we seek to place on the backs of others simply falls back on our own.
Guy Finley explains that any part of us trying to drag us into a heated stew over "who" or "what" should be blamed for our pain is secretly working to…[more]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how any kind of blame is actually an avoidance of seeing yourself as you actually are in the present moment.
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.
Guy Finley encourages us to look inward instead of outward for a reason why we're suffering.
Use your fear to come awake to yourself, says Guy Finley.
Guy Finley reminds us that each time we compromise ourselves without knowing it, we are asleep in that moment to what we are in relationship with.
Guy Finley explains how and why to let go of any negativity.
A big part of our inner work in all of our relationships involves remembering this key idea: whenever we are not present and properly attentive to ourselves, we may be…[more]
Why try and change your outer world, asks Guy Finley, when it is only a reflection of your inner life?
Our real "problem" with others, explains Guy Finley, isn't that they won't or can't give to us what we want from them.
We must be willing, explains Guy Finley, to taste the bitterness of our negative states before we would feed them to others.
We can help others reach higher by simply agreeing, explains Guy Finley, to give them space to go through their changes.
If we want a whole life, explains Guy Finley, we must be whole human beings.
It is our fear of being alone, explains Guy Finley, that compels us to seek the approval of others.
Compassion starts with the understanding that every human being on the planet looks different from us -- because physically we are different -- but inwardly we all live in the…[more]
True freedom is not an achievement, explains Guy Finley; it is our awakened relationship and participation with the genesis of real life.
The first step in harmonious relationships is simple: We need only realize the spiritual truth that we cannot meet someone whom we are not like in some way, even if…[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]
When I look at you,
I am looking at me . . .
In a time or place
I have been, or will be.
The fear of being alone in life, explains Guy Finley, belongs to an imagined self.
Choosing inner seeing over the wish to be seen by others in a complimentary light, explains Guy Finley, stops the cycle of self-sabotage.
In this extraordinary podcast, Guy Finley reveals the higher understanding that is necessary to find the Truly Fearless Life!
Our experience of any passing event -- for the pain or pleasure of it, explains Guy Finley -- is the product of how we see it.
Right within us, as an unseen aspect of our True Nature, resides the entire range of relationships that the universe has to offer.
We all know the sting of not getting the approval we seek from other people. And when we don't receive the approval, we double our efforts and try a different…[more]
If we wish to live without resentments that linger in our hearts and rid ourselves of fear with all of its debilitating limitations, we must shed the skin of our…[more]
One of the most shocking and necessary discoveries along the path, explains Guy Finley, is that what we love does not love us
Guy Finley explains that true prayer must begin with a genuine request.
Guy Finley speaks about the popular idea of a coming evolution in world consciousness.
The object of any desire, explains Guy Finley, is powerless to bring an end to the desire that created it.
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]
The less pain we have over what life appears to deny us, explains Guy Finley, the more at peace we naturally become with ourselves.
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]
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.
Guy Finley explains the power in seeing that we are actively involved with unseen thoughts and feelings that compromise us.
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.
What we put first in our lives, explains Guy Finley, is our first relationship with life.
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.
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 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]
Many times the very thing we want from the person we are with, explains Guy Finley, is the very thing that we ourselves either lack at the moment or otherwise…[more]
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.
The gradual higher awareness of others' pain, explains Guy Finley, is the birth of true compassion in us.
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.
The best to way to help others, explains Guy Finley, is to give them room in which to grow.
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]
A poem by Guy Finley which expresses gratitude for Higher Love.
The path to a more compassionate life, explains Guy Finley, is found in our willingness to try to understand the moment instead of needing to be understood in it.
When we resist what life would show us about ourselves, explains Guy Finley, we effectively close the door on the Light that wants to help transform us by showing us…[more]
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]
Nothing in the universe, explains Guy Finley, can prevent a man or a woman who wants to know Love -- who wants to rise to the next level -- from…[more]
We are spiritually free, explains Guy Finley, when not one part of us harbors any hatred or resentment for any other human being.
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 gives us ten ways to see through the false thoughts that would have us believe we must suffer because of them.
In order to give others the space they need in which to grow, says Guy Finley, we must first make room within ourselves.
Growth, explains Guy Finley, is the marriage of something that already exists with something within us readied for that Union.
Guy Finley discusses a new approach to breaking the cycle of negativity involved in divorce where we take the focus off the other person and place our attention on a…[more]
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]
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 discusses the purpose behind the seasonal changes of our inner life and how we can embrace them as the spiritual teachings meant for us.
**I know someone who drives me crazy, and I want to help him by sharing the truths I am learning. Without using interfering tactics, how can we help others to…[more]
Guy Finley discusses what it means to have forgiveness and compassion for others, and the evidence of God's compassion for this world through request and response.
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 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.
By working with our resistance to others, Guy Finley explains that we ultimately learn about our own true nature, out of which compassion is born.
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]
Understanding our spiritual weakness is the key to following through on our good intentions.
Guy Finley discusses how we can raise our relationships to a higher level by understanding that the other person is never the problem when we feel hurt. It is not…[more]
Guy Finley shows how we can begin enjoying True Success by agreeing to accept the lessons life has for us.
A lesson revealing the extra effort needed on our part to realize True Freedom.
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 how we can invite the unknown Love and Understanding that is capable of perfecting our relationships.
Understanding true peace and security.
The Secret of Pefecting Relationships
How to see without judging others!
Step back to see the thoughless nature of conflict and fighting.
Nurturing Love: How to be in True Relationship with another human being!
Using relationships for inner development.
True self-help through transcendence, not struggle.
Real transformation is a task that takes intentional sustained inner work.
How to make a truly Fresh Start starting over!
Ending disturbances by learning to understand the nature of life changes.
Taking full pleasure in life's joyful, renewal of experiences.
The whole of our lives is relationship. The whole of our inner discovery takes place within relationship. Nothing can speed up our inner work better than working with someone who…[more]
The true spiritual path begins and ends with what you already are. Use these 10 insights to tell the world you've lost interest in being you.
10 Exercises for increasing your spiritual memory. Remember that every effort you make to remember to remember God increases His interest in you.
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]
Learn about your individual level of inner freedom.
How to be for yourself by being for the Truth.
It does not matter how you take the road. All that really matters is that you take it.
Cling Fast to Your Aim and Strive to Be True
