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  • The Way His Will Works (Writing - 1/19/03)

    Find strength, peace and quietude in God's Will

  • Success of the Soul (Writing - 12/15/02)

    The Soul is created to transcend itself, beyond what we think possible

  • The Right Request for Spiritual Rebirth (Writing - 11/10/02)

    Let Go of Self and Experience Spiritual Rebirth

  • Where the Heart Belongs (Writing - 12/1/02)

    Leave Your Heart in God's Good Keeping

  • Peace of Mind (Writing - 2/22/03)

    When you want to know peace of mind and the powers that circulate through a quiet mind, you must take yourself to that place where this Silent Strength can make…[more]

  • Salvation (Writing - 2/23/03)

    Learn why heaven and salvation is not a time to come!

  • Meditation & Prayer (Writing - 2/23/03)

    Meditation & Prayer can show you how to let go and know that Life is complete and so are you!

  • Indecision (Writing - 2/23/03)

    Tips for fearlessly stepping into indecision and the unknown.

  • Life Changes (Writing - 2/23/03)

    Ending disturbances by learning to understand the nature of life changes.

  • Renewal (Writing - 2/23/03)

    Taking full pleasure in life's joyful, renewal of experiences.

  • Lessons Only Love Can Teach (Writing - 9/20/02)

    Love never dies. She cannot. She is life itself.

  • The Secret of Having Everything You Want (Writing - 12/13/02)

    Guy reveals a powerful secret for peaceful living through learning to want what Life wants.

  • Finding the Love You Long For (Writing - 7/7/03)

    Guy Finley offers encouragement to those who find themselves alone on the Spiritual Path, and who long for some form of companionship.

  • Self-Justification (Writing - 3/1/04)

    Guy Finley discusses how to get past justifying weakness and negative states through awareness of our pained condition and surrendering ourselves to a higher strength.

  • The Flicker That Would Be a Flame (Writing - 2/12/05)

    We have yet to realize, explains Guy Finley, that our hearts are not only capable of forbearing the depths of our loneliness but are also meant to soar to heights…[more]

  • Spiritual Solutions for True Self-Healing (Writing - 4/11/05)

    We are not created to be self-filling beings, explains Guy Finley, but instead are meant to empty ourselves in order to be filled by our Higher purpose.

  • The Secret Seed of True Harmonious Relationships (Writing - 6/12/05)

    When we resist what life would show us about ourselves, explains Guy Finley, we effectively close the door on the Light that wants to help transform us by showing us…[more]

  • Break Through the Barrier Between You and True Peace (Writing - 6/24/05)

    To enter the silent world of peace, explains Guy Finley, requires that we learn the secret of being still.

  • Let Your Relationships Set You Free (Writing - 7/10/05)

    The path to a more compassionate life, explains Guy Finley, is found in our willingness to try to understand the moment instead of needing to be understood in it.

  • Ask God to be in Charge of Your Life Without Telling How (Writing - 9/25/05)

    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]

  • Helping Others to Help Themselves Go Higher (Writing - 11/12/05)

    The best to way to help others, explains Guy Finley, is to give them room in which to grow.

  • Three New Choices That Dismiss Dark Conditions (Writing - 1/7/06)

    Guy Finley sheds light on the fact that negative reactions to unwanted events do nothing to cure them.

  • What Love Demands (Writing - 5/8/06)

    Guy Finley explains that each of us must do what Love asks of us individually.

  • Disturbance (Writing - 7/1/06)

    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]

  • Solve the Mystery of Your True Self (Writing - 1/1/07)

    Each moment of the day -- no matter what comes your way, explains Guy Finley -- let what you remember as being true about Love always be your guide.

  • A Wise and Winning Way to Look at Your Life (Writing - 5/7/07)

    efore we can enter, and live in, the higher realm of the Free Mind, explains Guy Finley, we must learn to see our life through its eyes.

  • The Beginning of True Self-Seeing (Writing - 5/20/07)

    Guy Finley explains that true prayer must begin with a genuine request.

  • Letting Go Into the Power Flow (Writing - 11/5/07)

    In the early 1900s, before the age of superhighways, supermarkets, and the giant food manufacturers, things were very different, better in many ways. Small family farmers used to truck or…[more]

  • Be True to Yourself (Audio 6:44 - 8/7/08)

    In this podcast, Guy Finley explains how being true to ourselves is the same thing as not resisting what life brings to us.

  • Take the Leap into All that You May Be (Writing - 9/25/08)

    Guy Finley urges us to find the places in our lives where we can take conscious, spiritual risks.

  • Invite the Light to Liberate Your Life (Audio 9:48 - 11/5/08)

    In this podcast, Guy Finley describes what it takes to let go and let a higher intelligence reconcile the sense of dissatisfaction we feel in our lives.

  • Let Love Lead You Home (Writing - 12/22/08)

    Love is a latent interior "hunger" we all feel through our longing to know -- deeply -- someone or something to which we are drawn. And Love understands that whatever…[more]

  • Let Truth Bring You To Tremble (Audio 3:11 - 6/15/09)

    In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about prayer, which is intended to help reveal to us the whole of our character, including the parts of us that resist being…[more]

  • Enlarge Your Life with Compassion and Consideration (Writing - 7/27/09)

    Guy Finley explains why we need to change the balance sheet of our lives so that for every measure of impatience and intolerance there may be at least an equivalent…[more]

  • The Essential Laws of Fearless Living (Video 3:24 - 6/1/10)

    Guy Finley speaks on themes from his best-selling book The Essential Laws of Fearless Living.

  • Discover the Difference Between Real Strength and False Strength (Writing - 10/15/10)

    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.

  • Walk Through This World Without Fear or Worry (Video 14:17 - 2/3/10)

    Guy Finley speaks about how it's possible to live completely free from fear, worry, and other self-limiting thoughts and feelings.

  • The Secret Prayer That Renews You (Writing - 12/6/10)

    Before something genuinely new can appear in our lives, something old must pass.

  • Real Faith and True Freedom (Writing - 1/10/11)

    No one is free who lives with fear.

  • Participate in the Fulfillment of Real Life (Audio 3:09 - 3/2/11)

    In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how we are intended to use all of life's moments to grow into a more fully integrated and meaningful relationship with real life.

  • Letting Go of the Little Things in Life (Writing - 4/4/11)

    We are at our core a creature of the stars: beings whose original and celestial stuff is not only born of light, but also intended to live unbound.

  • The Secret of Letting Go of Dead-End Relationships (Writing - 4/11/11)

    The truth is that letting go is very simple and, above all, natural; as natural for you and I as it is for a tree to shed the heavy, sun-ripened…[more]

  • Empower Yourself to Make New and Higher Choices (Writing - 6/13/11)

    Seen or not, our attitude determines our altitude in life.

  • Receiving What's True Begins with Giving Yourself to Truth (Audio 5:09 - 3/19/12)

    In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how our experience of life is directly connected to our understanding of the immutable spiritual laws that govern all things.

  • Practice the Pause that Spiritually Strengthens (Writing - 2/4/13)

    Negative emotions cannot exist without having something to blame for their punishing presence.