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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

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  • Care Of The Soul (Writing - 7/7/02)

    Within solitude and silence should we weigh those matters concerning the care of our soul.

  • See the Light (Writing - 5/26/02)

    Awake and See the Light

  • Merciful (Writing - 9/1/02)

    Be Relieved of the Burden of Being Me

  • Recovery (Writing - 2/23/03)

    In Recovery the Light from one small moment of honest self-inquiry is more powerful than the accumulated darkness of a million years of doubt.

  • Awakening (Writing - 2/23/03)

    Awakening: How to change our destination and arrive at that Higher World!

  • How to Defeat What's Defeating You (Writing - 12/6/02)

    How To Defeat What's Defeating you

  • Self-Awareness (Writing - 7/1/03)

    Guy Finley addresses common questions on the topic of self-awareness.

  • Preparing the Vessel (Writing - 11/12/03)

    A special writing by Guy Finley explaining the work we must do to prepare a vessel that can be filled by real life.

  • Rushing (Writing - 6/1/04)

    Guy Finley suggests specific exercises to help you step out of the rush and stop being driven by anxious states. Learn new ways to wake up and develop self-command.

  • Turn Any Dark Condition Into a Healing Light (Writing - 8/3/04)

    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]

  • An Inner Exercise to Change Your Life (Writing - 6/19/05)

    All interior practices, explains Guy Finley, begin with the wish to meet our lives from a new understanding of ourselves granted us through new knowledge about ourselves.

  • Illusions (Writing - 9/28/05)

    Understand the power illusions have over your life and learn how to break free from what wants to keep you captive.

  • The Warrior's Soul (Writing - 11/28/06)

    A beautiful poem explaining how God's Life replace the endless circle of wants.

  • Transcend the Limitations of Self-Centered Love (Writing - 7/2/07)

    One of the most shocking and necessary discoveries along the path, explains Guy Finley, is that what we love does not love us

  • Depression (Writing - 12/4/07)

    Guy Finley discusses the source of sadness and depression, and the most effective ways to free yourself from sinking into psychological darkness.

  • Awaken the Love of Light (Audio 8:22 - 2/26/08)

    In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how our minds react to what Truth is revealing within us.

  • Spiritual Evolution: True or Not? (Audio 20:10 - 4/28/09)

    Spiritual evolution is not something that is going to just happen by mere accident. It is something that requires an inner effort on the part of the human being. In…[more]

  • Remember Your Way Back Home (Writing - 12/27/09)

    Guy Finley explains that there are those who, having once tasted the wine of truth, can never again be satisfied again with any other.

  • Step Out of the Chains Called Self-Control (Writing - 5/28/10)

    You can wake yourself up, explains Guy Finley, just as many times as you're willing to catch yourself in daydreams where you're the star.

  • The Courage to Be Free (Video 4:40 - 7/29/10)

    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]

  • 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.

  • Get Everything Done Without Doing Yourself In! (Writing - 11/22/10)

    There may be no greater self-deception than the false notion that rushing through anything actually helps us in any way whatsoever.

  • Catch the Ticker Tape Mind and Cut It (Audio 5:15 - 4/28/11)

    In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about why the mind is always so busy thinking about itself, and how becoming aware of its mechanical activity is the beginning of…[more]

  • Stop Sinking into Negative Thinking (Writing - 5/16/11)

    No intelligent, conscious person would ever intentionally hurt themselves or others.

  • A Lesson Learned is a Day Well Earned (Audio 6:32 - 9/6/11)

    In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about why it is so important for all of us to learn something new and true about ourselves everyday.

  • Remember Yourself and Realize Freedom (Video 8:58 - 11/7/11)

    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]

  • Awaken to Your Spiritual Barometer (Audio 6:13 - 12/20/11)

    In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about why we must come to realize the need to shake ourselves awake as often as possible if we want to be free…[more]

  • Why Desires Never Satisfy (Writing - 12/5/11)

    If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that is never satisfied.

  • What to Do When Life is Picking on You (Audio 6:56 - 8/20/12)

    In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how we are introduced to our own higher possibilities whenever we are willing to be awake to what the present moment wants…[more]

  • Depart from the World of Unconscious Pain (Audio 1:49 - 4/11/13)

    In this short talk, Guy Finley explains how "waking up" spiritually includes an awareness of how much it hurts to remain "asleep."

  • The Role of a Spiritual Teacher (Video 3:36 - 4/23/13)

    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]