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 importance of understanding the idea of "levels and scale" inside of our own consciousness, so that we can gradually begin to break…[more]
In this video, Guy Finley explains that the true role of a teacher is to remind students of their actual condition, which presently is an unconscious state of "spiritual sleep."…[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]
Guy Finley explains how everything exists to bring you into relationship with stillness, from out of which comes real contentment and gratitude.
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.
In this video, Guy tells an enlightening and entertaining spiritual story about a young woman who gets carried away with "dance partners" -- thoughts and feelings -- that don't have…[more]
To change our relationship with life, to realize its unlimited song, we must bravely learn what it means to hear all of ourselves.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how everything that life brings to our door is intended to show us something new and true about ourselves... if we are…[more]
Actualizing our spiritual right to live without the frustration of fearful limitations is not a question of achieving something new; it begins with choosing to end a relationship with that…[more]
Our awareness of the troubled thoughts and feelings roaming through us is the power that keeps their harmful and self-limiting influences from having control over us.
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.
Only conscious awareness of our aching can lead us to what authentically answers it.
Here's a short exercise to help you see the following fact: There's a way to know, without ever having to think about it, exactly which of your own thoughts and…[more]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how our experience of life -- the way we feel in any given moment -- is the direct result of what we give…[more]
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.
No grief or disturbance of any kind is yours.
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.
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 participant in the moment-to-moment…[more]
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 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.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the difference between being completely passive to life's movements, and being properly active in the moment, which involves listening intently to what the…[more]
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 podcast, Guy Finley talks about how we can stop being fooled into involving ourselves with fear, worry and anxiety by remembering that there are parts of us that…[more]
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]
As we become more self-aware, a whole new order of understanding dawns.
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 short talk Guy explains how each moment of life is made for anyone and everyone who is present to it. If you are not in this moment, you…[more]
We are meant to go through a transfiguration on this earth, a change internally that leaves our character like nothing it was before.
The true nature of anything -- whether a newly opened leaf or a fearful thought or feeling -- is inseparable from what it serves.
Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about a new action we can take to find freedom from negative states.
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 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]
We are meant to take part in God's life through awareness of the freedom it continually reveals.
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]
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 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.
If we wish to have true harmonious relationships with others, then it is we who must change.
The awareness of our living relationship with the present moment empowers us to know what's best for us without having to think about it.
Our attention connects us to life; it establishes our relationships with all that unfolds around and within us.
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.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how our true nature, which is fearlessness itself, is not separate from the unfathomable wholeness of real life.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about a bright new relationship with life that is available to us when we are willing to drop our painful demands and wait for…[more]
Your awareness of troubled thoughts and feelings, explains Guy Finley, is the power that keeps their harmful and self-limiting influences from having control over you.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how true faith, born out of seeing the real need for a fearless life, can point the way toward an authentic, everlasting inner…[more]
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 explores the true meaning and purpose of meditation, and explains why it is the most natural and practical thing you can do for yourself.
Guy Finley explains how to use everything that happens to us -- both painful and pleasurable -- to grow into the fearless and free individual we were born to be.
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 an uncommon kind of sensitivity that is required of the sincere spiritual aspirant who wishes to know a freedom that cannot be assailed…[more]
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 importance of being ceaselessly attentive to the activity of your own mind, which makes it possible for you to be the one…[more]
Our own mistaken perceptions, explains Guy Finley, literally produce the enemies needed to stay alive.
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]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about a beautiful kind of higher certainty that can come into your life in which it is impossible to ever again have one more…[more]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about our present level of mind that spends its energy trying to resolve the very problems that it creates.
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.
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]
We have within us, explains Guy Finley, a very special part of ourselves within which we may be at peace regardless of what goes on around us.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the immense difference between a life spent accumulating possessions, and a life in which an individual allows something higher to take possession of…[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]
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 special podcast, Guy Finley talks about how a higher awareness of "our world" makes it impossible to punish, judge or be against another person.
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 reveals what stands in the way of human beings having a real relationship with wholeness and love.
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.
If we want a whole life, explains Guy Finley, we must be whole human beings.
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]
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, 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]
In this podcast, Guy Finley explains how being true to ourselves is the same thing as not resisting what life brings to us.
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]
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.
The seemingly scary condition, whatever it may be, is not the problem, says Guy Finley. It is your reaction that is fearful.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how our minds react to what Truth is revealing within us.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how there is nothing more important than to Be Awake.
When feel pain, we tend to take it personally and feel like we are the only ones in the world who are suffering. That seems like the natural thing to…[more]
We as human beings have settled for far too little. The fact is that we do not know the unrealized potential that exists within each and every one of us.…[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.
If fall signals the retreat of nature -- as when the last leaves fall from the trees and countless creatures crawl into nooks and crannies to pass through the bone-chilling…[more]
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.
Awareness is a living and intelligent feature, explains Guy Finley, of the ever-present Now within which it dwells.
We don't ever have to worry about happy endings to any of our life stories, explains Guy Finley, if we're awake enough to refuse all unhappy beginnings.
Guy Finley explains that we are not meant to be the slave of any negative thought or feeling
**The more I think I know about true spirituality, the more I become easily aggravated by the behavior of others, especially when I hear someone make an obviously false (spiritually)…[more]
Guy Finley explains how you don't throw a stone into a pond to get rid of a ripple.
One of the most shocking and necessary discoveries along the path, explains Guy Finley, is that what we love does not love us
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]
Guy Finley speaks about spiritual balance, alignment, and the natural flow of the present moment.
Guy Finley speaks about the popular idea of a coming evolution in world consciousness.
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]
Guy Finley explains how living from a mind that automatically assumes suffering is real, gives you no choice other than to remain a perpetual victim.
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.
The less pain we have over what life appears to deny us, explains Guy Finley, the more at peace we naturally become with ourselves.
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]
Working with self-observation, we can actually see, explains Guy Finley, that these self-compromising thoughts are just that: thoughts.
The discontented nature, explains Guy Finley, always requires that something be wrong in order for it to set it right.
Learning to step out of the rush, explains Guy Finley, is the same as learning how to step into your own life.
The only power negativity has over us, explains Guy Finley, is the power we give it.
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 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.
Learn the truth aboout the law of attraction.
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]
Guy Finley explores how it is that you can make yourself miserable but you can't make yourself happy.
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]
We must no longer lend ourselves, explains Guy Finley, to the will of any dark state looking to use us as its vehicle.
Guy Finley illustrates that wherever you place your attention, you give life to that seed of thought.
In pure barrenness, explains Guy Finley, there dwells an honest beauty.
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]
Guy Finley reminds us that happiness, love, peace, compassion, and contentment are timeless states of being in the Now.
Guy Finley explains how to be elevated to a Higher life starting right now. Discover the extraordinary power hidden in our awareness and how it literally can transform our life.
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]
Guy Finley discusses our relationship with the food we eat and how unconscious appetites keep us from developing a love for the one relationship that can fulfill our need for…[more]
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.
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.
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]
Guy Finley discusses the power of attention -- how problems are aggravated through the wrong use of attention and how we can stop animating our suffering by consciously withdrawing our…[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]
This beautiful 8 line verse by Guy Finley reveals the essence of the real Spiritual Path.
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 discusses the draining energy of negative imagination and how images drawn from our memories seem to validate our discouragement.
A special message from Guy Finley about how to make the holiday season better and brighter. Guy explains how it's possible to stop hurting ourselves and the world around us…[more]
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.
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.
As we begin to see, explains Guy Finley, that keeping company with fear, worry, and stress is actually what allows those negative states to remain firmly lodged in our hearts,…[more]
The first part of these new lessons in learning to live from your Higher Self and the prayer exercises that attend them is that the next time you feel yourself…[more]
In our quest to win freedom from the ties that bind, we spend most of our lives struggling to overcome vague foes that fade in and out, like the shadows…[more]
True freedom, explains Guy Finley, is found through awareness that clinging to our past experience is all that holds us captive.
We must learn to detect and reject the old content of ourselves, explains Guy Finley, if we are to enjoy the true freedom that awaits us.
Guy Finley explains that choosing to bear, rather than reciprocate, the pain of others, is the only way to end the circle of suffering.
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 discusses the purpose behind the seasonal changes of our inner life and how we can embrace them as the spiritual teachings meant for us.
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]
As Guy Finley explains, as we let go of our identification with negative feelings we also let go of their associated pain.
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 how by meeting unwanted moments with negativity we only serve to further cement the darkness within us.
In this key lesson Guy Finley explains how the now is meant to always be new.
Guy explains how we can begin developing true fearlessness by refusing to follow the commands of the internal pressure that jumps in and immediately tells us what we must now…[more]
Guy Finley shows that to win authentic spiritual strength one must see through the illusions he has mistaken for that strength.
Guy Finley shows how we can reclaim our natural internal energy by seeing where it is that we are currently wasting them.
Guy Finley addresses common questions on the topic of self-awareness.
Guy Finley explains how to be in the right inner place when the moments of real self-change make themselves known to us.
The more you know, the farther you can see, so take as long as you need with the following Higher Lesson and allow yourself to see something new about the…[more]
Guy Finley shows you a whole new way to live that is free from the punishment of self-wrecking thoughts.
An excerpt from Seeker's Guide explaining how to break our relationship with negative states.
Guy Finley reveals how we can invite the unknown Love and Understanding that is capable of perfecting our relationships.
Guy Finley reveals the unknown treasures hidden in spritual stillness.
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]
Learn to see through any anxious condition of feeling overwhelmed.
Learn why the most powerful tool for stress you have is True Silence!
It is in your power to be awake to the fearful voices that either project some doom or denouce you for making mistakes.
Learn to let go of any painful past condition!
Breaking out of old painful patterns, habits, and recuring problems.
Nurturing Love: How to be in True Relationship with another human being!
Selfless Living: How to Enter Into Perfect Communion Where God is Your Life!
Learn to Be A Self-Starting Individual Instead of a Self-Stalling One!
Learn how dark forces (devils) are always against you while Angelic forces (angels) are for you in every meaning of the word!
Meditation & Prayer can show you how to let go and know that Life is complete and so are you!
How to overthrow the addiction, the tyrant of dark domination!
How to see without judging others!
Consciousness of any unwanted condition in us must precede its correction, just as the rising sun dismisses the fear hiding in the darkness of night.
The answers to all of life's questions can be found WITHIN you. Three ways to start asking the right questions.
Going Beyond the Limitations of Thoughts
Special Insights into Making a Fresh Start in Life
The Soul is created to transcend itself, beyond what we think possible
How To Defeat What's Defeating you
Be Aware of the Content of Your Own Heart
How to be for yourself by being for the Truth.
How to deal with negative states.
Anticipation is a special kind of awareness where one is united with the spirit of what comes prior to its arrival
Understanding of the opposites is essential for your spiritual growth.
What is our purpose in life?
Allowing nothingness its life slays both the illusion of emptiness and the self so fearful of it.
Find Balance, Find Perfect Peace
Awake and See the Light
