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Browse this sub-directory of Guy Finley's top self-improvement and spirituality articles, poetry, and inspiration quotes by Guy Finley

Topic > Spiritual Principles > Attention

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  • Awaiting the Divine (Writing - 9/22/02)

    Anticipation is a special kind of awareness where one is united with the spirit of what comes prior to its arrival

  • Feeling Overwhelmed (Writing - 2/23/03)

    Learn to see through any anxious condition of feeling overwhelmed.

  • Stress (Writing - 2/23/03)

    Learn why the most powerful tool for stress you have is True Silence!

  • Going Beyond the Limitations of Thoughts (Writing - 1/24/03)

    Going Beyond the Limitations of Thoughts

  • Pull Yourself Out of the Worlds Pull on You (Writing - 8/23/02)

    What is our purpose in life?

  • Thought (Writing - 5/1/03)

    Guy Finley shows you a whole new way to live that is free from the punishment of self-wrecking thoughts.

  • The Secret of Seeing Through Defeat and Discouragement (Writing - 6/16/03)

    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]

  • Leave Troubling Thoughts and Feelings Where You Find Them (Writing - 3/8/04)

    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]

  • Attention (Writing - 2/1/05)

    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]

  • Sure Steps Towards a Silent Mind (Writing - 2/26/05)

    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]

  • Take the Steps to the Stressless Life (Writing - 4/17/05)

    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.

  • Diet (Writing - 7/1/05)

    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]

  • Fulfill the Higher Plan for Healing Whatever Pains You (Writing - 11/20/05)

    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]

  • Find New Strength in Awakened Attention (Writing - 1/22/06)

    Guy Finley illustrates that wherever you place your attention, you give life to that seed of thought.

  • You Can Conquer Any Condition (Writing - 10/16/06)

    The only power negativity has over us, explains Guy Finley, is the power we give it.

  • Solve Yourself and Help Save the World (Writing - 7/30/07)

    **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]

  • Wake Up to a New Order of Wholeness (Audio 1:48 - 12/31/07)

    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.

  • The Real Secret is: Seeing is Your Being (Audio 3:23 - 1/3/08)

    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]

  • Proof That Pain is Impersonal (Audio 14:34 - 1/17/08)

    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]

  • Find New Strength in Awakened Attention (Writing - 7/7/08)

    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.

  • Stop Self-Stalling and Become Self-Starting (Writing - 9/7/08)

    Never again look for a way out of any anxious condition, explains Guy Finley. Look instead for a way to see through it.

  • The Cultivation of Love (Audio 19:57 - 12/3/08)

    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.

  • Learn to Be the Instrument of Life (Audio 4:08 - 6/22/09)

    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]

  • Stop This Unseen Source of Suffering (Audio 2:10 - 9/11/09)

    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.

  • Stop Animating What Makes You Ache (Writing - 10/12/09)

    Our own mistaken perceptions, explains Guy Finley, literally produce the enemies needed to stay alive.

  • Where's "Waldo"? (Audio 11:10 - 10/18/09)

    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]

  • The Freedom to Change Your Experience of Life (Writing - 9/24/10)

    Our attention connects us to life; it establishes our relationships with all that unfolds around and within us.

  • The Powerful Possibilities of Self-Seeing (Writing - 11/7/11)

    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.

  • Let Truth Tell You Who You Are (Audio 3:41 - 3/31/12)

    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]

  • The Web of Life (Audio 5:30 - 4/30/12)

    In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about the life-saving wisdom of becoming aware of the various thoughts, feelings and states that move through us, rather than wasting our energy…[more]

  • Prepare Yourself for the Timeless Life (Video 3:50 - 5/15/12)

    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.

  • The Sure Cure for Whatever Disturbs You (Writing - 8/20/12)

    No grief or disturbance of any kind is yours.

  • The Seed is the Deed (Audio 5:37 - 8/31/12)

    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]

  • The Complete Story of Sorrow in a Simple Lesson (Audio 2:09 - 1/24/13)

    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]

  • Find Strength in the Silent Force (Writing - 4/22/13)

    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]