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 difference between merely thinking about spiritual ideas and the actual awareness of the truth of ourselves in the present moment.
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 talks about how real revelation of the truth of ourselves transforms the character that has been revealed.
On one hand, each of us professes to be concerned with growing and self-developing while, on the other hand, none of us ever wants to be wrong, which is a…[more]
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.
As we become more self-aware, a whole new order of understanding dawns.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about the vital importance of going beyond mere knowledge about spiritual principles and beginning the real work of integrating what we know about…[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.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how we are all seeded with the potential to be a perfect reflection of all things good and true.
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]
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 podcast, Guy Finley talks about how true fulfillment is connected to using our life for the purpose that it was given to us.
Almost every kind of unhappy feeling is the result of mistaking the partial for the whole.
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.
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]
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."
The next time something dark or disturbing tries to steal into you to wreck your contentment, do not consent to be drawn into its seemingly important considerations.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how we can begin to transcend any limitation that we meet along the path to discovering the truth about 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]
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]
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 podcast, Guy Finley talks about how any real request for something higher is proof that there already exists a relationship to the very thing that we are wishing…[more]
The wise are not those most learned, but the best tempered by truths put to the test of life.
In order for change to take place, we must be changed.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how real relationship with the present moment requires both receptivity and letting go.
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.
No intention can be any stronger than our ability to remember it in the moment that it is needed.
Our willingness to see the difference between real and false strength brings about an inner change that puts us in an entirely new relationship with life.
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 the great importance of being willing to see everything that we can about ourselves.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how self-knowledge is essential for any human being who longs to be in relationship with a higher order of life that is everlastingly…[more]
Every time we accept a negative state we compromise ourselves and increase the level of conflict for ourselves and everyone we meet.
Guy Finley speaks about topics related to his new book The Courage to Be Free including fear and fearlessness, beauty, kindness, love, and the authentic path to an enlightened heart…[more]
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.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how we can begin to understand that what we call "unwanted moments" are actually life's invitations for us to discover more about our…[more]
Guy Finley explains that events do not exist as negative events except for our perception of them.
Outgrowing Relationships - Learn why walking the authentic spiritual path necessarily causes some relationships to fall away.
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 we can learn to be conscious participants in this grand symphony called the present moment.
The only power dark, discouraging states hold over us, explains Guy Finley, is that they get us to identify with feelings of being powerless.
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 need never answer any part of ourselves, explains Guy Finley, that wants to punish us, intimidate, or otherwise drag us down.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how true beauty is never absent from our lives, even in the midst of a troubling moment.
Our own mistaken perceptions, explains Guy Finley, literally produce the enemies needed to stay alive.
Guy Finley reminds us that you do not have to accept any condition that compromises your happiness.
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 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 conflict is born in those moments when our expectations about how life ought to unfold meet reality.
Use your fear to come awake to yourself, says Guy Finley.
Why try and change your outer world, asks Guy Finley, when it is only a reflection of your inner life?
We must be willing, explains Guy Finley, to taste the bitterness of our negative states before we would feed them to others.
If we want a whole life, explains Guy Finley, we must be whole human beings.
Guy Finley urges us to find the places in our lives where we can take conscious, spiritual risks.
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 explains how being true to ourselves is the same thing as not resisting what life brings to us.
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]
In this extraordinary podcast, Guy Finley reveals the higher understanding that is necessary to find the Truly Fearless Life!
The false self is trying endlessly to get your attention, explains Guy Finley, in order to point out to you that there is something missing in your life.
We all naturally resonate with Truth and Beauty when it is being expressed. When we know we have heard something true, why does it stir us? In this podcast, Guy…[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 how you don't throw a stone into a pond to get rid of a ripple.
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]
Guy Finley explains that true prayer must begin with a genuine request.
Guy Finley speaks about spiritual balance, alignment, and the natural flow of the present moment.
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]
Real self-knowledge, explains Guy Finley, provides a glimpse of the expansive world that awaits us.
Find your True Purpose in life and how your connection to Real Love can be realized and lived in every moment.
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.
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.
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]
What would you think of a mother or father who starts yelling at their 5 year-old son because he didn't prepare dinner? It would be a terrible thing. Intuitively we…[more]
Guy Finley discusses the daily disturbances that run through our lives and how we unconsciously take part in the conflict they create. Learn about a new kind of strength and…[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.
If we could only become quiet enough to listen anew, explains Guy Finley, we would learn that peace is a gift given freely to each of us, right where we…[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.
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.
A special writing by Guy Finley revealing the path to true change. Originally presented at a classroom talk given on 11/13/05.
Guy Finley reminds us that happiness, love, peace, compassion, and contentment are timeless states of being in the Now.
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]
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.
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.
No one ever feels small in life, explains Guy Finley, who hasn't first been fooled into believing that there is nothing bigger than those small thoughts and feelings through which…[more]
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]
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]
This new poem by Guy Finley subtley reveals how the inner quest for self-freedom has already been won. And it goes one step further by highlighting the special responsibility required…[more]
*(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 describes for us how a higher conscious awareness empowers us to be one with all that exists in the kingdom of creation.
Each time we listen to -- and work with -- that part of us which knows what is right and true, explains Guy Finley, we strengthen our relationship with all…[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]
Choose not to let dark disturbances take hold of you, encourages Guy Finley, but to instead let them pass you by as you would any unwelcome guest.
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.
Guy Finley explains that the only lasting way to change our experience in life is to change our own life-level. At last the secret of real change!
The path to the higher ground within you, explains Guy Finley, is found through your persistent willingness to see that the path you are currently on leads nowhere.
Guy Finley shows us that it is through self-correction, not self-improvement, that true growth takes place.
Those who choose, explains Guy Finley, to stay the course over staying in negative, painful places find themselves that much closer to True Freedom.
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]
In this key lesson Guy Finley encourages us to see through the false nature that would keep us from moving forward through any uncertainty and doubt.
Guy Finley explains how by meeting unwanted moments with negativity we only serve to further cement the darkness within us.
Kindness is something we all value and wish we are known for. Learn how to make kindness alive in your life.
In this key lesson Guy Finley explains that our own only weakness is in what we have not yet discovered about ourselves, and our one strength is the realization that,…[more]
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]
A short writing by Guy Finley showing how Higher Freedom comes to us in direct proportion to what we are willing to learn about ourselves
Guy Finley shows how we can reclaim our natural internal energy by seeing where it is that we are currently wasting them.
Guy Finley reveals how the misleading fear of emptiness (failure) keeps us from knowing true success.
In this excerpt from the Intimate Enemy you will discover a new understanding to heal the pain that arises out of our own misperception.
Guy Finley explains how to be in the right inner place when the moments of real self-change make themselves known to us.
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.
Guy Finley shows how we can use the appearance of pressure and stress within us to shake ourselves awake.
A poem by Guy Finley on the condition of the awakening soul.
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.
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.
How to develop True Character by dropping self-defeating habits!
Learning to recognize genuine truth. It is always simple, always good.
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]
Here are seven separate Higher Facts about the proof and the possibility of the Fearless Life.
Bring an end to the struggle to quiet the mind!
Real secrets for stress-free living. The answers really do exist!
Be Fashioned by the Master Jeweler's Hand
Learn about your individual level of inner freedom.
A thousand journeys, but one Path. A thousand lovers, but one Thee.
While experience may serve as the path to self-knowledge, still it remains the lesser half of the path to self knowing.
Heal the hurting in you.