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Use All of Life's Lessons to Liberate Yourself

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Stop Searching for Abundance and Be Fulfilled

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The Secret of Gentle Intolerance

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Stop Being Tricked into Serving Dark States

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Free Yourself from Unwanted Circumstances

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Turn the Table on Any Troubling Moment

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Chart a New Course Through Any Dark Moment

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Uncertainty

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Snap Yourself Out of Psychic Slumber

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Five Great Illusions Keeping You from Letting Go

Guy Finley urges us to see through false illusions that keep us from letting go.

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Wake Up and Walk Away from Whatever is Pulling You Down

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Let Go and Grow Beyond Negative States

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The Spiritual Secret that Allows You to Defeat Any Discouragement

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Loneliness

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A Winning Solution to Ending Dark Inner Dialogues

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Free Yourself From False Suffering

Guy Finley explains how our perception produces what we experience.

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For True Self-Command Just Stop, Look, and Listen

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Stand on the Ground of Your True Self

When you don't -- when you consciously won't -- express some negative state, explains Guy Finley, you are literally asking for awareness of a Higher Self.

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Go from Storms to Sunny Skies

Fighting the storm by resisting its winds and rain, explains Guy Finley, will do no good.

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Discover the Sound of Your True Self

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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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The Happiness of Dropping Painful Demands

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Invite the Light that Shatters Self-Limitation

Guy Finley explains that life is always stirring and producing moments in which we are asked, in essence, to be more than we are.

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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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Start Planting the Seeds of Peace

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A New Inner Understanding to Put You in Charge of All Outer Circumstances

Barring those moments when we find ourselves in real physical danger, conditions, of themselves, have absolutely no authority over us. It's true. No event or circumstance has any power to…[more]

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The Secret of Having Everything You Want

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Rejection

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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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Visualization

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Disturbance

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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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Awaken to the Wonder of the Ever-Changing World Within You

There is no moment, explains Guy Finley, in which the whole of the turning of the universe isn't producing a corresponding turning in the soul.

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How to Develop a New Attitude and a New Altitude in Life

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Break Out of the Blame Game

Negative emotions cannot exist, explains Guy Finley, without having something to blame for their punishing presence.

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Helpful Lessons in Higher Love

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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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Be Careful What You Pray For . . .

Guy Finley explains that our experience of life moment-to-moment is, in fact, what we have asked for.

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Three New Choices That Dismiss Dark Conditions

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

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Secrets for Stress-Free Living

Guy Finley helps us to see that "scary" life-moments are as powerless to punish us as is a make-believe monster on the movie screen.

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Knowledge to Be Stronger Than Whatever Shakes You

Before we can learn to free ourselves from our own fearful reactions to unwanted events, explains Guy Finley, we must realize just how worthless fear actually is.

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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

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End the Dark Cycle of Discontentment - Part III

Guy Finley speaks about understanding the nature of discontentment and how to rise above its limiting influence (continued).

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Spiritual Solutions for True Self-Healing

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.

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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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Attract Positive Life Results with This Powerful Secret Principle

If we can see, explains Guy Finley, how positive inner states lead to positive life experiences, then we can also see that negative inner states must attract negative results.

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Enter the Great Estate of Your True Self

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How To Change the Life You're Giving Yourself

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

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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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Witness

This specially crafted poem by Guy Finley complemented his classroom talk on November 7th, 2004.

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The Power to be at Peace with Your Life

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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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The One Power Greater Than Any Inner Disturbance

Choose not to let dark disturbances take hold of you, encourages Guy Finley, but to instead let them pass you by as you would any unwelcome guest.

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Change

Guy Finley discusses the purpose behind the seasonal changes of our inner life and how we can embrace them as the spiritual teachings meant for us.

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Cancel the Secret Cause of Self-Captivity

Learning to question old, negative reactions and feelings, explains Guy Finley, is the first step to breaking out of their dark captivity.

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The Sure Way to Raise Your Life Level

Guy Finley explains that the only lasting way to change our experience in life is to change our own life-level. At last the secret of real change!

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Never Discourage Over Your Present Location

Those who choose, explains Guy Finley, to stay the course over staying in negative, painful places find themselves that much closer to True Freedom.

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Self-Justification

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.

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Eleven Laws That Lift You to the Next Life Level

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The Secret Understanding That Makes Painful Events Disappear

By changing the ingredients of our life recipe from false images and negativity to awareness and understanding, we discover a new sweetness in life.

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The Secret of Release and Relax

As Guy Finley explains, as we let go of our identification with negative feelings we also let go of their associated pain.

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Step Past Secret Self-Limitations

In this key lesson Guy Finley encourages us to see through the false nature that would keep us from moving forward through any uncertainty and doubt.

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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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Take This New Attitude Toward Whatever Makes You Ache

Guy Finley sheds light on the understanding that the lies of negativity and darkness are only powered by our willingness to let them rule us.

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Dealing with the Darkness We Get from Others

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A Simple Instruction for the Regeneration of the Soul

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Welcome the Quiet Light of Truth [continued]

8 essential spiritual truths that must be learned along the Path to Real Life.

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New Answers that Bring a New Life

Guy Finley shows how our experience of life is a direct result of who and what we are, and how we can begin today to bring about a new experience…[more]

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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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Discover Your Power of Higher Choice

Discover the hidden Truth about negative states such as fear, worry, anger, and depression. Guy Finley reveals that the reason these states hold us captive is because of our willing…[more]

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Put Yourself in the Driver's Seat

A writing by Guy Finley extracted from The Secret of Letting Go revealing the secrets of what it takes to take control of our lives.

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Anxiety

Seeing through self-destructive anxiety.

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Feeling Overwhelmed

Learn to see through any anxious condition of feeling overwhelmed.

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Anger Management

Learn anger management, how to never again be tricked into feeling bad about anything!

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Happiness

Happiness is seeing all dark states as passing clouds, behind which sits The Sun!

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Blame Game

There is no profit in blaming your lot in life on other people or an uncaring world. Escape the dark punishing captivity inherent in blame.

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Resistance

Learning to Go Through Resistance

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Life Changes

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

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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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Quiet The Mind

Bring an end to the struggle to quiet the mind!

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Three New Choices That Dismiss Dark Conditions

Learn how you can turn any unwanted moment into a stepping stone toward a higher level of self-command.

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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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You Can Be Stronger Than Any Dark Spirit

You Can Be Stronger Than Any Dark Spirit

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Abolish Harmful Inner Voices

Bring more light into your life by patient inner investigation.

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Nullify Negative States with New Knowledge

How to deal with negative states.

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Wake Up and Be Free of Fear and Worries

Take these steps to make fear and worry disappear

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Insights & Instructions Along the Timeless Path of Self-Knowing

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