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]
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.
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.
Truth wants you to know that it is never in your best interest to unconsciously suffer.
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.
We can begin to free ourselves from negative states when we understand the truth about their power over us.
In this short talk, Guy Finley explains how conscious awareness of tension is the birthing ground of revelation and self-discovery.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how a truly fearless and happy human being is one who understands that our lives are not meant to be spent serving only…[more]
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about the importance of being present to what each moment reveals to us about ourselves.
In this short talk, Guy Finley explains how real compassion is the fruit of the mind that awakens to where it is harming itself.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how there is nothing in the world more practical than true spiritual principles.
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]
We are meant to go through a transfiguration on this earth, a change internally that leaves our character like nothing it was before.
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.
No intelligent, conscious person would ever intentionally hurt themselves or others.
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]
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about what it takes to liberate ourselves from any fear that wants to pull us down into its world.
We are at our core a creature of the stars: beings whose original and celestial stuff is not only born of light, but also intended to live unbound.
In this 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 are intended to use all of life's moments to grow into a more fully integrated and meaningful relationship with real life.
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]
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.
In order for change to take place, we must be changed.
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.
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.
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 a real spiritual life becomes possible for us when we begin to act on what we know is true.
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.
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]
Outgrowing Relationships - Learn why walking the authentic spiritual path necessarily causes some relationships to fall away.
Nothing seems harder to accept than the fact that we are responsible for so much of what proves to be unnecessary suffering. But we must challenge this involuntary, often intractable…[more]
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.
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 revealing podcast, Guy Finley talks about how attending to the true needs of others also allows us to discover our own limitless possibilities.
Guy Finley shares secrets to help heal the global pain and suffering of the world. Learn how darkness in the world serves, in time, to glorify the Light...and how the…[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]
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]
Everyone wonders whether or not there is one Great Secret for truly successful living. Guy Finley explains that there is.
In this podcast, Guy Finley examines the life and death of Christ, and shows how that story is not simply an historical event, but is actually intended to be a…[more]
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 the day of our awakening is the same as the delightful date of our departure from a bankrupt world filled with beggars dressed as kings and…[more]
You do not need to remain the victim of fear, explains Guy Finley.
As difficult as it may be, explains Guy Finley, we must begin to doubt our own suffering.
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.
In this podcast, Guy Finley reveals how we can forever break free from anything that compels us to relive painful moments from the past.
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]
Our purpose in life, explains Guy Finley, should be to challenge and rise above every wrong feeling by finding the higher ground within.
Why try and change your outer world, asks Guy Finley, when it is only a reflection of your inner life?
There is one essential reason why there is so much constant heartache and war on this earth, and why conflict has continued as it has down through the ages. The…[more]
Guy Finley explains that it's what we do inwardly -- with what takes place outwardly -- that alone has the power to transform our lives.
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.
Truth wants you to know, explains Guy Finley, that it is never in your best interest to unconsciously suffer.
Your experience of this world, explains Guy Finley, is determined by how you think toward it.
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]
Real power, explains Guy Finley, is knowing we already possess everything we need to succeed in the moment, as we would wish it.
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?
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]
It's often said that 'silence is golden.' But very few people on earth understand why this is so, let alone the immense possibilities this idea holds for the sincere spiritual…[more]
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.
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]
Awareness is a living and intelligent feature, explains Guy Finley, of the ever-present Now within which it dwells.
Guy Finley explains how our perception produces what we experience.
Guy Finley explains that true prayer must begin with a genuine request.
Our responsibility, explains Guy Finley, is only to remain aware in the moment and to allow ourselves to be guided by and within that awareness.
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]
We punish ourselves with unhappy feelings, explains Guy Finley, because we've been tricked into thinking self-hurt is self-help.
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.
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.
When we attempt to do what is not within our power, explains Guy Finley, we only succeed in making ourselves miserable.
The quality of our life, explains Guy Finley, is first and foremost an expression of the level of our understanding.
It's only what you do right this moment, right Now, explains Guy Finley, that's the seed of personal change.
Taking conscious risks can be such a powerful catalyst for inner change, explains Guy Finley, and involves making a choice to do what's true, in spite of what that choice…[more]
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.
Negative emotions cannot exist, explains Guy Finley, without having something to blame for their punishing presence.
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.
A special writing by Guy Finley revealing the path to true change. Originally presented at a classroom talk given on 11/13/05.
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]
When we think about any painful event, be it three minutes or thirty years old, we look at nothing more than a shadow of what once was -- something that…[more]
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.
Guy Finley speaks about understanding the nature of discontentment and how to rise above its limiting influence.
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.
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]
As we awaken, explains Guy Finley, to see the false workings in our mind, we also see there is only one possible solution to end the suffering they cause: we…[more]
Any direction we take to get away from some misery, explains Guy Finley, is the continuation of that distress.
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.
*(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]
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]
When we don't understand our negative states, when we have yet to realize how they trick us into doing their bidding, they have the power to make us jump through…[more]
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]
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.
Inside each of us, explains Guy Finley, resides a seed to be nurtured by something higher.
**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]
By changing the ingredients of our life recipe from false images and negativity to awareness and understanding, we discover a new sweetness in life.
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.
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]
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.
Guy Finey looks at the condition called "anger" and how it is possible to escape dark inner conditions once we realize the part we play in the visiting of that…[more]
Guy Finley offers a powerful spiritual declaration of independence for those who have grown weary of compromising themselves for a false freedom that always betrays.
Guy Finley shows how we can begin enjoying True Success by agreeing to accept the lessons life has for us.
A special writing by Guy Finley showing that the secret to real self-transcendence resides within one's willingness to be what one is.
A lesson revealing the extra effort needed on our part to realize True Freedom.
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.
Shedding light on dark attacks.
How to Dismiss Any Darkness as it Rises Up Within can lead to True Christianity!
Step back to see the thoughless nature of conflict and fighting.
If we refuse to run from the battle we face, victory appears!
Find the Secret Solution to Help End World Suffering!
The secret for dismantling the grief felt from the death of a loved. The same can be applied to the pain felt whenever a part of ourselves experiences a "death"…[more]
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.
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]
Most of our heartaches and sorrows are the offspring of trying to be something we have no Real need to be.
Healing the cause of all pain and suffering!
Transcending the Soul through Suffering
Find strength, peace and quietude in God's Will
Be Fashioned by the Master Jeweler's Hand
Put God First
Leave Your Heart in God's Good Keeping
Wake Up and Take Part in God's Great Symphony
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.
It does not matter how you take the road. All that really matters is that you take it.
Take these steps to make fear and worry disappear
To dare to see. To die to be.
What is our purpose in life?
Use this list of ten powerful insights to begin choosing in favor of your True Self.
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.
Linger in the great mystery of moments untold. Wait there for the unspeakable invitation to live there.