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Avoid This Trap of Torment

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Transcending Judgment

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Learn to Turn to the Eternal

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Remember Yourself and Realize Freedom

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Take Yourself Out of Harm's Way

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Sit Down to the Banquet of Truth

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Awaken to Your Spiritual Barometer

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]

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Use This Principle to Escape the Prison of Yourself

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Why Desires Never Satisfy

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A New Order of Self-Understanding

As we become more self-aware, a whole new order of understanding dawns.

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Gaze Into Your True Self

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how a still and attentive mind perfectly reflects the "presence" moment.

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Work Through Yourself If You Want to Find Yourself

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Remember Yourself and Realize Freedom

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The Powerful Possibilities of Self-Seeing

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.

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A Lesson Learned is a Day Well Earned

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.

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How to Realize New Possibilities

The way in which we grow is that we grow into the world above ourselves.

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The Reward of Being True to Yourself

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.

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Stop Sinking into Negative Thinking

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

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Learn to Wait on What is Holy

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how any moment can be used to remember our wish to be in the presence of what is good.

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The Doorway to a Higher Destiny

The wish itself -- to be a higher person -- comes to you from a higher place and is received in its inner equivalent within you.

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Catch the Ticker Tape Mind and Cut It

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]

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Treasure the Truth About Yourself

There is an inner gold you can find whose possession fulfills you, regardless of your external circumstances. We can call this inner gold "real self-knowledge."

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Liberate Yourself From the Bullies in Life

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about what it takes to liberate ourselves from any fear that wants to pull us down into its world.

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Learn to Wait on the Divine

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how we can learn to use every moment to reach for what our heart of hearts longs for.

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Stay Out of the Waves of Fear

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Get Started on the Higher Path to Selfless Living

We are meant to take part in God's life through awareness of the freedom it continually reveals.

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Stop Missing Life's Most Important Moments

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about the importance of applying and integrating the spiritual knowledge we have learned into our everyday lives.

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Secrets of the Profitable Soul

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Let Self-Knowledge Light the Way Ahead

The wise are not those most learned, but the best tempered by truths put to the test of life.

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Build a Spiritual Fire for Your Heart

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how a real love for what is true and Divine requires that we agree to see ourselves as we actually are.

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Strengthen Your Connection to the Timeless Life

You'll never know how forgetful of your self you are until you make the smallest effort to be self-remembering.

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Dismiss the Storms That Sink Your Chances to Be Happy

Whenever some dark storm appears in us, we must awaken to ourselves and bring ourselves back into the Now.

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Get Everything Done Without Doing Yourself In!

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

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A Visit to Life of Learning

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Step into an Unthinkably Confident Relationship with Life

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Courage

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The Freedom to Change Your Experience of Life

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Reclaim the Gift That Releases You From Fear

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the great importance of being willing to see everything that we can about ourselves.

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Self-Knowledge is Self-Liberation

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The Courage to Be Free

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Become a Spiritual Warrior and Win a Real Life

Guy Finley answers the question, what does it mean to be a truly successful person in this life?

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Step Out of the Chains Called Self-Control

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.

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Wait on Life in a Whole New Way

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Break the Spell of Self-Limiting Negative States

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Real Change Begins with Honest Self-Investigation

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Stand on the Unshakable Ground of Your True Self

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The Gift of Meditation

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.

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Seek the Source of True Self-Mastery

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how we can achieve a greatness beyond imagination through a conscious relationship with the living source of greatness itself.

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Be Eternally Refreshed

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Why No One is More Special Than You Are

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Practice Stepping Out of the Rush

Intentionally separate yourself from any rushing inner condition, explains Guy Finley, by voluntarily stepping out of it.

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The #1 Secret to Being Relaxed, Carefree, and In Command

There is a hidden part of you that knows, without thinking about it, how to always be perfectly relaxed, carefree, and in command. This higher intellectual and emotional intelligence is…[more]

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Remember Your Way Back Home

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

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Letting Go of Unseen Self-Limitation

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Free Yourself from Unwanted Circumstances

Guy Finley reminds us that the truth never causes pain.

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Let Life Give You What You Need

We can gain new self-knowledge, explains Guy Finley, through the observation of the fact that everything is changing.

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The Sure Cure for a Sinking Spirit

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how resistance to any negative state such as anger, anxiety, or fear does not help diminish the state, but instead actually causes the…[more]

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Let God Take You From You

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the spiritual necessity of being alone in order to discover within yourself the one thing in the universe that you can always count…[more]

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The Secret of Knowing Without Thinking

You may not be able to think your way out of a nagging problem, explains Guy Finley, but you can see your way clear of it.

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Welcome Truth's Light and Make Everything Right for You

Have you ever seen rage in yourself? Generally, we don't want to see certain states within us because we've been conditioned to think of them as bad for us. We…[more]

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Begin Becoming a Whole Human Being

No intention can be any stronger, says Guy Finley, than our ability to remember it in the moment that it is needed.

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The Cost of Conscious Peace

Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.

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Enter the Place of Power

Make it your moment to moment practice to stay awake, says Guy Finley, and to watch for all the opportunities that your own now presents.

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Awareness is the Law

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]

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The Secret for Successful Living

Guy Finley reminds us that real change itself isn't found in some new way to think about yourself but in the freedom from the need to think about yourself at…[more]

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Let Life Touch You

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.

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Learn Where to Look for the Extraordinary Life

I can think of no greater encouragement in this life than the self-evident truth that within each of us dwells something Extraordinary. By "Extraordinary" I don't mean any one condition…[more]

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A Short Commentary on Remembering Yourself

In this valuable podcast, Guy Finley talks about the higher intention and purpose behind the idea of "remembering yourself". Listen closely and learn about a beautiful, timeless principle that you…[more]

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Transformational Living

Discover the authentic spiritual and esoteric secrets for truly transformational living.

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Claim the Higher Vantage Point of Conscious Presence

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.

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Have a Happier Relationship with Life

Spiritual work is always interior work first, explains Guy Finley.

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Spiritual Stages Along the Way

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the subtle difference between becoming the embodiment of a thought or feeling that passes through you, and being fully aware of its presence…[more]

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Six Eye-Opening Insights to Start True Self-Healing

Guy Finley reminds us that the Living Light never shows us anything in ourselves that it hasn't already started to change for us.

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Spiritual Evolution: True or Not?

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]

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An Up-Close Look at Karma

In this podcast, Guy Finley reveals how we can forever break free from anything that compels us to relive painful moments from the past.

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Awaken to a New and Higher World Within Yourself

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.

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Keys to Claiming Your Celestial Birthright

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]

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Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time

(From the Introduction) With consistent attention and persistent effort, you can release whatever now stands between you and the freedom for which your heart seeks. You can let go. Never…[more]

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Be Stronger Than Anything That Frightens You

The seemingly scary condition, whatever it may be, is not the problem. It is your reaction that is fearful. This is why if you will become conscious of your condition…[more]

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Take the Weight of the World Off Your Shoulders

Why try and change your outer world, asks Guy Finley, when it is only a reflection of your inner life?

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Let Love Be Your Life

If we want a whole life, explains Guy Finley, we must be whole human beings.

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What Can I Learn About Myself From You?

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]

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Hypocrisy

Guy Finley sheds helpful light on certain forms of painful hypocrisy that live in us. Also revealed is how we can awaken to and dismiss spiritual weakness in ourselves, as…[more]

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Detect, Stop, and Drop Inner "Voices"

Any time is the right time to go quiet, explains author Guy Finley.

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Welcome the Freedom that Comes with Being Fearless

As we are coming to see, within each of us dwells a Light -- an awareness capable not only of observing the host of invisible forces that forge life itself,…[more]

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Find New Strength in Awakened Attention

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.

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Panic Attacks

Guy Finley discusses panic attacks and the fearful, mechanical thoughts that terrorize an unawakened mind. Learn the secret of knowing that all is well when you realize the truth that…[more]

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Challenge Fear's Right to Rule Your Life

The seemingly scary condition, whatever it may be, is not the problem, says Guy Finley. It is your reaction that is fearful.

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The Great Lesson Behind Self-Liberation

We are created -- and each of us is intended, explains Guy Finley -- to discover the truth of ourselves within ourselves.

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Awaken the Love of Light

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

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Why You Should Feel Encouraged

The light from one small moment of honest self-inquiry, explains Guy Finley, is more powerful than the accumulated darkness of a million years of doubt.

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How the Awake State Helps Heal the Ache

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how there is nothing more important than to Be Awake.

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Unmask the Three Thieves of Peace

One reason why negative states sneak in so easily to steal our peace, explains Guy Finley, is that we have been conditioned to believe in their right to punish us.

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Discover a Peace that Never Goes to Pieces

Guy Finley explains that if our peace is built upon worldly forms, then it will be, at best, a temporary peace.

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The Real Secret is: Seeing is Your Being

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]

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Discover the Treasure of Your True Nature

Awakening to who we are created to be, explains Guy Finley, is the first step in letting go of all that holds us captive.

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Realize the Self Greater than Any Dark State

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]

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Enlightening is Better than Igniting Yourself!

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

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Depression

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

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Rise Above the Negativity of Others

One of the important aspects of this Work, explains Guy Finley, is beginning to employ its principles in our everyday lives.

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Lift Yourself Into a Brand New World

Within each of us there is an expansive world of thoughts and feelings whose movements determine how we perceive and experience the world outside of us. While this inner-world of…[more]

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The Secret Starting Place for All Happy Endings

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.

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Transform the World Within You and Around You

If we wish to live without resentments that linger in our hearts and rid ourselves of fear with all of its debilitating limitations, we must shed the skin of our…[more]

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Stop Struggling with Others

When we're angry or resentful for what has happened in our lives, the real enemy is not ouside of us, explains Guy Finley -- it's what we don't yet know…[more]

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Coming to the End of Codependency

The suffering inherent in any condition created by unconscious codependency, explains Guy Finley, is due to our having forgotten who we really are.

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Realize Your True Self in the Pool of Wisdom

Guy Finley explains how you don't throw a stone into a pond to get rid of a ripple.

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Transcend the Limitations of Self-Centered Love

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

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A Winning Solution to Ending Dark Inner Dialogues

If inner dialogues were left to themselves as they popped into our mind, explains Guy Finley, they'd be as powerless to disturb us as an echo is to change its…[more]

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Journey Beyond Fear

Counter to popular opinion, real success is not measured by the amount of our possessions. Simply stated, the truth is that real success -- ultimately the only success -- is…[more]

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A Wise and Winning Way to Look at Your Life

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.

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Spiritual Weariness

Guy Finley discusses how to keep alive the zeal for awakening and self-work, and to persist on the path to self-knowledge. Learn about the self-honesty that allows you to overcome…[more]

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Leave the "Victim Level" of Life Behind You

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.

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How to Be a Friend of Truth

What we become in this life, explains Guy Finley, is very much determined by the kind of "interior" company we keep.

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Let Go of Any Negative State and Reclaim Your True Nature

Guy Finley explains how one's inner nature determines one's experience of the outer life.

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Solve the Mystery of Your True Self

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.

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Step Up and Away from Punishing Feelings

We punish ourselves with unhappy feelings, explains Guy Finley, because we've been tricked into thinking self-hurt is self-help.

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True Revolution

A special writing by Guy Finley on what it truly means to be a peaceful and peace-filled human being.

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Start Planting the Seeds of Peace

Guy Finley explains if we are ever to realize the integrity and consistent kindness of our True Nature, if we long to know something of heaven while we live on…[more]

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The Warrior's Soul

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

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The Secret of Perfect Relationships

The less pain we have over what life appears to deny us, explains Guy Finley, the more at peace we naturally become with ourselves.

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Abolish Harmful Inner Voices

Working with self-observation, we can actually see, explains Guy Finley, that these self-compromising thoughts are just that: thoughts.

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The Power to Dismiss Discontentment From Your Life

The discontented nature, explains Guy Finley, always requires that something be wrong in order for it to set it right.

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Step Out of the Rush and Into Your Own Life

Learning to step out of the rush, explains Guy Finley, is the same as learning how to step into your own life.

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Dealing with Healing Ourselves

Guy Finley explains the power in seeing that we are actively involved with unseen thoughts and feelings that compromise us.

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The Little Boy Who Laughed Away the "Haunted" House

If we will courageously examine every frightening thought that goes through our minds to see if it is based in reality, explains Guy Finley, we will eventually discover that there…[more]

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An Advanced Lesson in Letting Go

The real act of letting go, explains Guy Finley, is first an interior action, followed, if needful, by a wiser exterior action.

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Enlarge Your Relationship with Real Life

What we put first in our lives, explains Guy Finley, is our first relationship with life.

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A Magical Prescription for More Positive Living

It is not negative to see the negative in us, explains Guy Finley, since it is the perfectly positive that makes this kind of seeing into ourselves possible.

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The New Self-Understanding that Makes You Unstoppable

We live in a world, explains Guy Finley, that is established for us to succeed in realizing that within us dwells an Intelligence beyond fear.

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Stop This Secret Self-Sabotage

We're often led to act against ourselves by an undetected weakness that goes before us -- trying to pass itself off to others -- as a strength. This is secret…[more]

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Discovering the Depths of Your True Self

The following short set of questions and answers is taken from the "Ask the Masters" sections that follow the end of each chapter in Guy Finley's newest book, *Let Go…[more]

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Law of Attraction

Learn the truth aboout the law of attraction.

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The Right Choice That Keeps You Safe

Guy Finley reminds us that no negative state wants what is right for you.

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Build the Foundation of a Fearless Life

It's only what you do right this moment, right Now, explains Guy Finley, that's the seed of personal change.

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Turn Dark Tunnels into Bridges of Light

Taking conscious risks can be such a powerful catalyst for inner change, explains Guy Finley, and involves making a choice to do what's true, in spite of what that choice…[more]

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Discovering the Impersonal Nature of True Peace

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]

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The Great Law that Governs Harmonious Relationships

Many times the very thing we want from the person we are with, explains Guy Finley, is the very thing that we ourselves either lack at the moment or otherwise…[more]

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Use the Ground of Discovery to Realize Your Self

To succeed spiritually, to discover the new man or woman waiting within us, explains Guy Finley, requires going beyond being the thought-based, self-conceived creatures we are at present.

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A Great Lesson in Letting Go

We must no longer lend ourselves, explains Guy Finley, to the will of any dark state looking to use us as its vehicle.

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Find New Strength in Awakened Attention

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

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Persistence

Learn why persistence is such a critical part of your spiritual work.

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Fulfill the Higher Plan for Healing Whatever Pains You

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]

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The Life Beyond Becoming

A special writing by Guy Finley revealing the path to true change. Originally presented at a classroom talk given on 11/13/05.

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Remember Your Real Self and Be Free!

Guy Finley reminds us that happiness, love, peace, compassion, and contentment are timeless states of being in the Now.

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Let Go and Live the Extraordinary Life

When it comes to letting go and living in the Now, explains Guy Finley, no sincere effort goes unrewarded.

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The Strength of a Silent Mind

One of the most powerful forces in the universe, explains Guy Finley, is Silence.

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Illusions

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

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Giving Yourself Up Is Lifting Yourself Up

Understanding that we are not our thoughts and feelings, explains Guy Finley, is the first step towards stopping them from ruling our lives.

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The Work and Reward of Just Being Yourself

Looking for freedom in powers or possessions, explains Guy Finley, ensures that we will always be their captive for fear of losing them.

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The Path to Peace Already Present

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."

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An Inner Exercise to Change Your Life

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.

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The Secret Seed of True Harmonious Relationships

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]

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Self-Transformation

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.

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Letting Go into the Flow of Real Life

This Now, the real Now, explains Guy Finley, is a perfect integration -- a dynamic mutual convergence of all the creative forces, which is always stirring.

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Abandon Your Usual Ways of Thinking

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.

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Practicing the Presence of Peacefulness

Negative states born of nothing other than conflict-filled, comparative thinking, explains Guy Finley, steal into us to squander our peace one hundred times a day.

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The Price One Must Pay

Nothing in the universe, explains Guy Finley, can prevent a man or a woman who wants to know Love -- who wants to rise to the next level -- from…[more]

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Two Ways to Raise Your Level of Spiritual Freedom

We are spiritually free, explains Guy Finley, when not one part of us harbors any hatred or resentment for any other human being.

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Realize the Endless Riches of your Real Self

Whenever we will lend our attention to the inner task of working to transcend some dark state at work within us, explains Guy Finley, then in that same moment we…[more]

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Attention

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]

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A New Prescription for an Old Pain

When we resist what others have to say about us, explains Guy Finley, we miss the perfect opportunity to learn something about our true nature we might not otherwise have…[more]

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How To Change the Life You're Giving Yourself

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]

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Success

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]

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Take the Step that You're Sure You Can't

Guy Finley shows us that, no matter how hard it seems to start fresh or learn something new, who you really are is greater than any part of yourself which…[more]

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The Ten Traits of the True Spiritual Warrior

Guy Finley outlines the ten traits of a True Spiritual Warrior.

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Negative Imagination

Guy Finley discusses the draining energy of negative imagination and how images drawn from our memories seem to validate our discouragement.

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How to Let Go of Helpless Feelings

Any direction we take to get away from some misery, explains Guy Finley, is the continuation of that distress.

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A Special Holiday Message About How to Make the Season Bright

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]

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Ten Truths That Prove You Have Nothing to Lose

Guy Finley gives us ten ways to see through the false thoughts that would have us believe we must suffer because of them.

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Giving Yourself (and Others) Room to Grow

In order to give others the space they need in which to grow, says Guy Finley, we must first make room within ourselves.

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Your Secret Power of Self-Disconnect

When we learn to "self-disconnect" we gradually, explains Guy Finley, break down the painful circle-of-self that is repeatedly formed by asking a problem for its solution.

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Four Ways to Teach the Truths that Transform the World

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.

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Let the Love of Truth Give You a Fearless Life

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]

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Break Through to a Totally New You

By rising above any self-righteousness that wants us to blame others for how we feel, explains Guy Finley, we gain an entirely new perspective on this useless reaction and learn…[more]

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The Power to be at Peace with Your Life

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]

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Turn Any Dark Condition Into a Healing Light

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]

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Tap Into the Power of True Self

True freedom, explains Guy Finley, is found through awareness that clinging to our past experience is all that holds us captive.

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Freedom

Guy Finley suggests a test for evaluating your own level of inner freedom. Learn to drop discouragement over any limitations and to awaken the secret part of you that has…[more]

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Wake Up and Be Free of Fear and Worries

Instead of letting fear lead you off the path and into the dark, explains Guy Finley, remain true to your course and watch it disappear.

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The Secret of Living Thought-Free

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.

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Rushing

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.

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Breaking Out of the Circle of Conflict

Guy Finley explains that choosing to bear, rather than reciprocate, the pain of others, is the only way to end the circle of suffering.

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Enter Into the Untroubled Now

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.

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Inner Work Rewards the Inner You

The path to the higher ground within you, explains Guy Finley, is found through your persistent willingness to see that the path you are currently on leads nowhere.

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Self-Correction is Self-Elevation

Guy Finley shows us that it is through self-correction, not self-improvement, that true growth takes place.

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Leave Troubling Thoughts and Feelings Where You Find Them

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]

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Awaken the Courage to be Kind

**I know someone who drives me crazy, and I want to help him by sharing the truths I am learning. Without using interfering tactics, how can we help others to…[more]

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Present Moment

The present moment, where our being and and our nature meet, is the instant of our destiny. But how to get there?

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The Secret of Making a New and True Beginning

Guy Finley explains that a new and true future begins with planting seeds of change in the now.

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Using Your Relationships to Realize Real Life

The greatest, most abundant resource on planet Earth is also its least understood and utilized. Its unlimited supply is found virtually everywhere, anytime, and under all circumstances, even though few…[more]

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Three New Choices That Dismiss Dark Conditions

Guy Finley explains how by meeting unwanted moments with negativity we only serve to further cement the darkness within us.

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Kindness

Kindness is something we all value and wish we are known for. Learn how to make kindness alive in your life.

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Remember Your True Identity and Realize Self-Liberation

Guy Finley explains that staying on the path to a truly awakened life requires continually saying NO to those unconscious parts of us that are full of doubt and darkness.

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Preparing the Vessel

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

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Taking Your Part in Perfect Intelligence

By working with our resistance to others, Guy Finley explains that we ultimately learn about our own true nature, out of which compassion is born.

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Forty Ways to Determine Your Level of Inner Freedom

A comprehensive list from Guy Finley of keys to knowing you're on Freedom's Path.

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Dealing with the Darkness We Get from Others

In this lesson Guy Finley explains how we can either choose to get negative about other people's bad behavior (which doesn't help us), or we can choose a different kind…[more]

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Release Yourself From Yourself

In this key lesson Guy Finley explains how the now is meant to always be new.

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A Silent Prayer to Empower Your Wish to be Free

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]

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How to Make all of Life be Just for You

In this short writing Guy Finley explains how we must revisit the same painful lessons over and over again until we begin to put the Truth first in our lives.…[more]

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How to Win New Spiritual Strength

Guy Finley shows that to win authentic spiritual strength one must see through the illusions he has mistaken for that strength.

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Self-Correction Is Self-Elevation

A short writing by Guy Finley showing how Higher Freedom comes to us in direct proportion to what we are willing to learn about ourselves

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21 Ways We Waste Our Vital Life Forces

Guy Finley shows how we can reclaim our natural internal energy by seeing where it is that we are currently wasting them.

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The Secret of Seeing Through Defeat and Discouragement

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]

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Helping Ourselves and Others Break the Circle of Suffering

Guy Finley shows the one way for breaking the cycle of conflict, hatred, and pain that arise in human relationships.

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Step Out of the Rush

Guy Finley explains how to step out from under the pressure of surging thoughts and feelings that would otherwise keep us caught in the cycle of rushing.

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How to Live Life on Your Own Terms

Guy Finley talks about how to escape the punishment inherent in wanting to be approved by others.

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With Eyes to See

A poem by Guy Finley on the wonders of contemplation.

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Thought

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

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Nullify Negative States with New Knowledge

An excerpt from Seeker's Guide explaining how to break our relationship with negative states.

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The Secret of Owning Your Own Life

Powerful insights from best-selling author Guy Finley show how we can bring an end to our punishing need for approval.

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Spiritual Stillness

Guy Finley reveals the unknown treasures hidden in spritual stillness.

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Start Sowing the Seeds of a New Life

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]

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Attachment

Attachment is an unconscious process that occurs when our thoughts, having formed an image of someone or something, then embrace this image as the thing itself we have imagined.

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Painful Patterns

Breaking out of old painful patterns, habits, and recuring problems.

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Self-Protection

Self-Protection is, and has always been, nothing but a self-limiting reaction that we cling to in the darkness of our present life-level.

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Selfless Living

Selfless Living: How to Enter Into Perfect Communion Where God is Your Life!

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Suffering

Find the Secret Solution to Help End World Suffering!

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Fear

It is in your power to be awake to the fearful voices that either project some doom or denouce you for making mistakes.

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Painful Past

Learn to let go of any painful past condition!

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Nurturing Love

Nurturing Love: How to be in True Relationship with another human being!

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Goal Setting

Learn to Be A Self-Starting Individual Instead of a Self-Stalling One!

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The Truth About Angels & Devils

Learn how dark forces (devils) are always against you while Angelic forces (angels) are for you in every meaning of the word!

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Meditation & Prayer

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

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Addiction

How to overthrow the addiction, the tyrant of dark domination!

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Judging Others

How to see without judging others!

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Recovery

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.

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Awakening

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

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Teaching Others

Teach others in a right way about spritual principles.

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Prayer in Action

Prayer in Action: Seven silent prayers to turn your life around

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Toxic People

Who we are - the stuff of our soul - is being transformed continuously by the nature of the company we keep, the toxic People.

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Transformation

Real transformation is a task that takes intentional sustained inner work.

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Self-Esteem

Self-Esteem is how to own your own life!

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Self-Help

True self-help through transcendence, not struggle.

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Renewal

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

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Relationships

Using relationships for inner development.

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Look in the Right Direction 

The answers to all of life's questions can be found WITHIN you. Three ways to start asking the right questions.

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Spirituality

Spirituality is the Upper Path begining in the moment where the lower path is no longer tolerable.

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Healing

Healing the cause of all pain and suffering!

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10 Small Steps to Real Self-Knowledge

10 steps to help you to outgrow yourself by venturing into the unknown.

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12 Steps to Help Find Your Way Back Home

To break out of any prison you must first find a way that works. Here are a dozen new actions that have special powers to show you this needed Way.

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Waking Up Together

The whole of our lives is relationship. The whole of our inner discovery takes place within relationship. Nothing can speed up our inner work better than working with someone who…[more]

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Twelve Secrets to Living Stress Free

Real secrets for stress-free living. The answers really do exist!

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Free Yourself by Seeing Yourself: 9 Ways to Heal the Hidden Hurting in You

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.

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10 Ways to Make God's Life Your Own

10 Exercises for increasing your spiritual memory. Remember that every effort you make to remember to remember God increases His interest in you.

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5 Personal Practices That Put Anxiety Out of Business

Your conscious participation in inner exercises, such as these five practices, is the only way to awaken the will you need so that one day you never have to answer…[more]

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7 Ways to Make Nothing Out of Fear

Here are seven separate Higher Facts about the proof and the possibility of the Fearless Life.

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10 Ways to Tell the World You've Lost Interest in Being You

The true spiritual path begins and ends with what you already are. Use these 10 insights to tell the world you've lost interest in being you.

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Peace of Mind

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]

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10 Ways Would-Be Angels Earn Their Wings

The 10 voluntary exercises below are for would-be Angels who want to develop their wings. Each is designed to help increase higher self-awareness.

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Psychology

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

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Deliver Yourself from the Domain of Dark Thoughts

New knowledge for escaping the punishment of dark thoughts and feelings.

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Going Beyond the Limitations of Thoughts

Going Beyond the Limitations of Thoughts

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The Secret of Owning Your Own Life

Discover ten powerful new ways to begin changing your view of your own life. Plus learn the one power greater than any disturbance.

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Spiritual Practices and the Presence of God

Spiritual Practices and the Presence of God

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Special Insights into Making a Fresh Start in Life

Special Insights into Making a Fresh Start in Life

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Success of the Soul

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

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Always You

Put God First

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How to Defeat What's Defeating You

How To Defeat What's Defeating you

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Find The Magic Of The Original Moment

We are born with a nature that can meet life new every moment

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Coming into the Undivided Life

Be Aware of the Content of Your Own Heart

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Abolish Harmful Inner Voices

Bring more light into your life by patient inner investigation.

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Take Time Alone

Take Time Alone and Find Freedom

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How to Make All of Life be Just For You

How to be for yourself by being for the Truth.

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This Key Unlocks The Door To The Free Mind

Face challenges with the key that unlocks the door to a free mind.

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Take the Road

It does not matter how you take the road. All that really matters is that you take it.

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Nullify Negative States with New Knowledge

How to deal with negative states.

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Awaiting the Divine

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

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Remember to Remember

Cling Fast to Your Aim and Strive to Be True

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The Secret to Overcoming All Opposition

Understanding of the opposites is essential for your spiritual growth.

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Merciful

Be Relieved of the Burden of Being Me

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Free Yourself by Seeing Yourself: 9 Ways to Heal the Hidden Hurting in You

Heal the hurting in you.

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Let Nothingness Happen

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

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The Good Work of Giving Yourself Up

Cycling of vanity with life-in-vain goes on until you see the cost of a self-filling self. Then you commence on the good work of giving yourself up.

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Care Of The Soul

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

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See the Light

Awake and See the Light

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The Invitation

Do The Good Work of Preparation So Perfection May Begin