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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 > The Opposites

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  • The Place of Perfect Peace (Writing - 6/2/02)

    Find Balance, Find Perfect Peace

  • The Opposing Self (Writing - 7/28/02)

    Seeking fulfillment it empties itself. Seeking importance it compromises itself. This is the self that opposes itself.

  • Let Nothingness Happen (Writing - 7/21/02)

    Allowing nothingness its life slays both the illusion of emptiness and the self so fearful of it.

  • Insights & Instructions Along the Timeless Path of Self-Knowing (Writing - 8/11/02)

    While experience may serve as the path to self-knowledge, still it remains the lesser half of the path to self knowing.

  • Psychology (Writing - 2/22/03)

    The psychology of knowing which of your own thoughts and feelings are your friends.

  • Seeking Approval (Writing - 2/23/03)

    Learn Why Approval May Be Awarded but Never Sought!

  • Let Go and Know Peace (Writing - 2/7/03)

    Discover an altogether new kind of peace in your life as you learn to let go.

  • The Secret to Overcoming All Opposition (Writing - 9/6/02)

    Understanding of the opposites is essential for your spiritual growth.

  • Make The Fear Of Being "No One" Fade Away (Writing - 2/28/03)

    Powerful insights to help you break free from the punishment inherent in seeking the approval of others.

  • Two-In-One Undone (Writing - 10/13/04)

    A short yet powerful poem by Guy Finley that reveals the wrong pursuits we get caught in each time we try to escape from understanding our real interior condition. If…[more]

  • The Path to Peace Already Present (Writing - 6/28/05)

    A stirring writing by Guy Finley revealing the real path to peace. Originally presented at the 2005 Talks in the Pines Series, "The Illusion of Limitation: The Liberation of Self."

  • Realize the Bright, Noble, and Ever-Ascending Life (Writing - 5/29/06)

    When we attempt to do what is not within our power, explains Guy Finley, we only succeed in making ourselves miserable.

  • Enlightening is Better than Igniting Yourself! (Writing - 12/10/07)

    Guy Finley explains how rising above the blame game is the same as learning how to be in total command of yourself.

  • Withdraw from the World of Fear and Worry (Writing - 3/31/08)

    What we really want isn't power to control the dark conditions around us, explains Guy Finley, but to be part of a new brighter and higher world within ourselves where…[more]

  • Go Beyond the World of Positive and Negative Forces (Audio 7:03 - 8/12/08)

    In this podcast, Guy Finley reveals how individuals can cease being distressed by the ups-and-downs of life by becoming aware of the opposites in action.

  • Make the Divine Discovery About Your True Self (Audio 8:01 - 9/4/08)

    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]

  • Some Notes on Natural Detachment from Negative States (Audio 19:13 - 10/27/08)

    In this extraordinary new podcast, Guy Finley talks about the difference between real freedom and the search for freedom born out of trying to escape a negative state.

  • Start Healing the One Source of All Heartache (Writing - 11/24/08)

    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]

  • Stop Taking Part in Unseen Self-Punishment (Audio 5:27 - 5/26/10)

    In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how we can stop cooperating with what wants to drag us down and open ourselves up to a greater life that is free…[more]

  • End the Dark Cycle of Discontentment (Writing - 10/1/10)

    We have been the unwitting servants of a thought nature whose appetite is unappeasable.

  • The Secret Precursor to True Spiritual Power (Audio 2:58 - 10/10/11)

    In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how resisting any weakness that we may see within ourselves is the same as rejecting the possible flowering of real spiritual strength.

  • Uncover the Ever-Changing Truth of Yourself (Audio 16:27 - 11/28/11)

    In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how we are not meant to be held captive by thoughts and feelings that do nothing but repeat themselves over and over…[more]

  • Enter the World Beyond Right and Wrong (Audio 5:59 - 3/5/12)

    In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how real revelation of the truth of ourselves transforms the character that has been revealed.