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End the Dark Cycle of Discontentment

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Use Unkind Acts to Help Create a New World

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Reclaim the Gift That Releases You From Fear

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Be a Correspondent of Real Life

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how every moment is actually a divine communication that wants to reveal to us our own limitless possibilities.

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Self-Knowledge is Self-Liberation

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Break the Bonds of this Secret Form of Captivity

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Let Your Pain Free You From the Fear of It

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about why we must not be afraid to discover everything that we need to know about ourselves.

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Start Asking Life for Something New

The person in denial of his or her own condition continues to ask for more of what didn't help the last time around.

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Let Love Lead You to True Success

Guy Finley explains how we are held ever apart from what we love by the very fact that we would clutch it to our breast.

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How to Stop the Spiritually Sick from Infecting You

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Wait on Life in a Whole New Way

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Regain Your Right to Be Self-Ruling

Guy Finley explains that events do not exist as negative events except for our perception of them.

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Break the Spell of Self-Limiting Negative States

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Outgrowing Relationships

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The Reality Behind the Need for Realizing New Relationships

Guy Finley explains that the Truth asks us to give it its way in our lives.

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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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Free Yourself From the Circle of False Friends

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how our experience of life is a direct reflection of the kind of psychological company that we keep.

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How to Make Problems Fall Away

It is only our reactions to events, explains Guy Finley, that give them any power over us.

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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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Reap the Benefits of Being a Lover of Truth

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

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Reflections on the Real

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Break the Chains of Bitterness

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The Secret of Gentle Intolerance

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Stop Being Tricked into Serving Dark States

Darkness, in whatever form we experience it, explains Guy Finley, only exists in the absence of light.

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Love the One You're With

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Free Yourself from Unwanted Circumstances

Guy Finley reminds us that the truth never causes pain.

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First Step to Ascension

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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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Let God Take You From You

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The Sure Cure for a Sinking Spirit

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The Secret of Knowing Without Thinking

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Welcome Truth's Light and Make Everything Right for You

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Where's "Waldo"?

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Rise Above the Blame Game

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The Secret for Successful Living

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In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about a new kind of awareness that allows for the possibility of a genuine healing and reconciliation to take place in our lives.

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Start Choosing What You Really Want

Guy Finley reminds us that you do not have to accept any condition that compromises your happiness.

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A Short Commentary on Remembering Yourself

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Transformational Living

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

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Awaken the New Perception that is Pressure-Free

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Let Truth Bring You To Tremble

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Have a Happier Relationship with Life

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

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Touch the Timeless Truth of Yourself

We must stop trying to create conditions for ourselves, explains Guy Finley, through which we hope to escape the fear of our own emptiness.

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Turn Your Fuming into Freedom

Guy Finley explains how whatever weight we seek to place on the backs of others simply falls back on our own.

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The Secret to Healing What 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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Blame Schmame

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how any kind of blame is actually an avoidance of seeing yourself as you actually are in the present moment.

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The Un-Possessable

Like a flower that emerges from rocky soil
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Stop Aching Over the Actions of Others!

Guy Finley encourages us to look inward instead of outward for a reason why we're suffering.

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Liberate Yourself From Self-Limiting Thoughts and Feelings

Guy Finley explains that we should do what's in our power and refuse to be discouraged about anything else.

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Start Using All Your Relationships to Enrich Yourself

Use your fear to come awake to yourself, says Guy Finley.

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Creating a New Spiritual Center of Gravity

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Seven Insights Into True Silence

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Keys to Claiming Your Celestial Birthright

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Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time

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Let Go and Grow Happy!

Guy Finley explains how and why to let go of any negativity.

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Just Say "No" to Blaming Others

A big part of our inner work in all of our relationships involves remembering this key idea: whenever we are not present and properly attentive to ourselves, we may be…[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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Don't Let Broken Expectations Bring You Down!

In this podcast, Guy Finley explains how expectations, while being necessary for daily living, can also become the source of conflict within us when we identify with the outcome of…[more]

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Choose to Let Go

Once we understand that letting go is the missing half of the whole happiness our heart longs for, explains Guy Finley, everything in our life grows easier.

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Step Out of the Dark Cycle of Discontent

Our real "problem" with others, explains Guy Finley, isn't that they won't or can't give to us what we want from them.

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The Power to Outgrow Problem People in Your Life

We must be willing, explains Guy Finley, to taste the bitterness of our negative states before we would feed them to others.

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Let Go and Give Others Room to Grow

We can help others reach higher by simply agreeing, explains Guy Finley, to give them space to go through their changes.

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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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Stop Believing in Your Own Weakness

It is our fear of being alone, explains Guy Finley, that compels us to seek the approval of others.

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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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Make the Divine Discovery About Your True Self

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]

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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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Here's the Heart of Happy Human Relationships

The first step in harmonious relationships is simple: We need only realize the spiritual truth that we cannot meet someone whom we are not like in some way, even if…[more]

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Seek the Source of Self-Perfection

In this podcast, Guy Finley, best-selling author of The Essential Laws of Fearless Living, reveals how every human being is created with the potential of perfectly reflecting all that is…[more]

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Making "Peace" with People who Would Punish Us

The fear of being alone in life, explains Guy Finley, belongs to an imagined self.

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Stop This Secret Self-Sabotage

Choosing inner seeing over the wish to be seen by others in a complimentary light, explains Guy Finley, stops the cycle of self-sabotage.

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The Power that Makes All Things Possible

What good is the light of any lamp in the dark, asks Guy Finley, if we forget to take that lamp with us out into the night?

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The Essential Laws of Fearless Living

In this extraordinary podcast, Guy Finley reveals the higher understanding that is necessary to find the Truly Fearless Life!

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Never Again Feel Like a Victim!

Our experience of any passing event -- for the pain or pleasure of it, explains Guy Finley -- is the product of how we see it.

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Sow the Seeds of a Consistent Kindness

To sow spiritual seeds, explains Guy Finley, means that we do spiritual work.

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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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Relationships: The Pathway and the Promise of Real Life

Right within us, as an unseen aspect of our True Nature, resides the entire range of relationships that the universe has to offer.

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Cut the Root of What's Wrecking Your Life

The unsure self that not only looks for, but attaches itself to codependent relationships -- cannot possibly be the real you. Let's see why this statement has to be true.…[more]

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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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Get to the Bottom of What's Betraying You

We value negative states, explains Guy Finley, because of the strong sense of self we get from them.

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Walk Away From the Ache of What Others Think About You

We all know the sting of not getting the approval we seek from other people. And when we don't receive the approval, we double our efforts and try a different…[more]

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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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Step Out of Yourself and Into the Whole of Life

Real hope for the world, explains Guy Finley, begins with discovering what it takes to become a new human being.

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To Thine Own Self Be True

Popular today is the phrase "be true to yourself." But what in the world does that actually mean? In this podcast, Guy Finley explains the True meaning of this popular…[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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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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The Quiet Beauty of Being Inwardly Balanced

We must start to become conscious of the movement produced by our thoughts and feelings, explains Guy Finley, because it is their movement that presently drives us to seek balance.

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Your True Nature is High

There is nothing wrong with being a successful human being. In fact, the purpose of your life is to win. But what if, in your quest for this victory, you…[more]

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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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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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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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Be Yourself and Be Complete

There is no substitute, explains Guy Finley, for seeing the truth of our actual spiritual situation.

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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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Find Personal Freedom in the Principles of Invisible Justice

We can never hope to be free, as Guy Finley explains, as long as any part of us struggles with, or suffers over what others are doing, have done, or…[more]

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Seek the Self-Knowledge That Is Life's True Treasure

Real self-knowledge, explains Guy Finley, provides a glimpse of the expansive world that awaits us.

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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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Let Go and Realize Real Rescue

Guy Finley shows us that any desperate attempt to escape a trouble usually leads us right back into more trouble.

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Discover the Sound of Your True Self

As we learn how to listen to the sounds of life within ourselves, explains Guy Finley, we open up to life's endless relationships.

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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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The First Step to Realizing Your True Self

Like the invisible winds that move the branches on the trees, explains Guy Finley, we live in a world of an unseen, but ceaseless, flood of thoughts and feelings.

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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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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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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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Let Go of the Little Things in Life

Learning to let go and to live in the Now, explains Guy Finley, is the same as catching ourselves holding onto what limits us and then deliberately dropping these self-imposed…[more]

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Clear This Obstacle and Climb to True Independence

Every step along the way to a higher independent life, explains Guy Finley, is both the challenge and the reward.

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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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The Secret of Owning Your Own Life

No one can give us the approval we seek, explains Guy Finley, because it isn't his or hers to give

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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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The Power to End Self-Defeating Patterns

Guy Finley explains that before you can have a different life -- before you can be happier, wiser, more at peace, and in quiet command of yourself -- you must…[more]

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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 Will and the Way to be Inwardly Still

When it feels as though the world is whirling around us, explains Guy Finley, what we need to understand is that the whirling is not outside of us but is…[more]

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Keys to Consciously Changing Yourself

Guy explains that one of the primary reasons why we don't change is because there's no space in our life. He shows how real change requires we agree to the…[more]

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Let Me Run With You

Forget this world with its intermittent streams, whose waters begin and end. Search out the Ocean, and stand in Her surge until the waves wash away the shores of your…[more]

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The Untouchable Mind

We have a chance, explains Guy Finley, to actually begin to recognize and realize what it would mean to be able to sit in a room and not have our…[more]

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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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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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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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You Are Not Who You Think You Are

Events may happen to you, explains Guy Finley, but you are not the event.

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Escape the Punishment in Judging Others

The gradual higher awareness of others' pain, explains Guy Finley, is the birth of true compassion in us.

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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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How to Release Yourself from Yourself

Letting go is about learning to die to ourselves psychologically, explains Guy Finley, so that something higher, something "undiminishable" can stand in for us.

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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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Helping Others to Help Themselves Go Higher

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

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Wake Up and Break Up the Stress Cycle

We must learn what it means to reach for a whole new place within ourselves, explains Guy Finley, from where it's possible to see that our present thoughts and feelings…[more]

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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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Ask God to be in Charge of Your Life Without Telling How

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]

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How to Defeat What is Defeating You

The first step in the right rebellion to reclaim your own life, explains Guy Finley, is to learn what it means to think about yourself instead of from yourself.

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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 Bible

Guy Finley discusses the Bible as a revelation of Truth and a resource for living the awakened life.

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Let Your Relationships Set You Free

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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Divorce

Guy Finley discusses a new approach to breaking the cycle of negativity involved in divorce where we take the focus off the other person and place our attention on a…[more]

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Ask the Masters

*(The following short set of questions and answers is taken from special sections following the end of each chapter in Guy Finley's newest book, **Let Go and Live in the…[more]

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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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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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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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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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This Key Unlocks the Door to a New Kind of Freedom

The true answer to any problem we find ourselves in is not found in our thoughts about it, but rather in our willingness to allow new light to reveal its…[more]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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New Powers to Help You Perfect Your Relationships (continued)

Guy Finley discusses how we can raise our relationships to a higher level by understanding that the other person is never the problem when we feel hurt. It is not…[more]

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Self-Pity

Guy Finley shows how we can muster the courage to stop giving ourselves over to self-pity and identification with dark states. He explains that instead of following and falling into…[more]

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Self-Awareness

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

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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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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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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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Spiritual Stillness

Guy Finley reveals the unknown treasures hidden in spritual stillness.

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Anger Management

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

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Forgiveness

Finding forgiveness in being forgiven.

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Prayer in Action

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

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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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Perfecting Relationship

The Secret of Pefecting Relationships

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Nurturing Love

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

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Relationships

Using relationships for inner development.

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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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Awakening

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

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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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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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Quiet The Mind

Bring an end to the struggle to quiet the mind!

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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The Way His Will Works

Find strength, peace and quietude in God's Will

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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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What Love Has Made

What Love Has Made Me

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Always You

Put God First

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The Right Request for Spiritual Rebirth

Let Go of Self and Experience Spiritual Rebirth

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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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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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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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Away the Shores of Your Soul

Don't Settle for a Stream When the Ocean Belongs to You