Guy Finley explains that everything you need to succeed and to change the kind of human being you are is already provided for you.
Guy Finley explains how everything exists to bring you into relationship with stillness, from out of which comes real contentment and gratitude.
Ours is the power to choose what we will and will not give our power to.
In this short talk, Guy Finley explains how our sincere wish to act rightly in the moment will attract the authentic higher help that we need to change.
Negative emotions cannot exist without having something to blame for their punishing presence.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how the seeming "absence" of the divine is actually an invitation for us to draw inwardly nearer to that which never stops…[more]
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how the mind's painful struggle to understand any given moment actually prevents the true understanding of the moment from reaching us.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how every moment presents us with an opportunity to learn something new and valuable about ourselves.
Self-observation is the key to a higher order of awareness; it is how we learn to become inwardly vigilant to our own thoughts and feelings, even as they pass through…[more]
The next time you want to go ahead with any project -- whether it's designing a rocket ship, or finally getting around to repairing your favorite rocking chair -- and…[more]
Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the difference between being completely passive to life's movements, and being properly active in the moment, which involves listening intently to what the…[more]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how our experience of life is directly connected to our understanding of the immutable spiritual laws that govern all things.
The reason we haven't as yet realized real rescue -- and so usually wind up trapped in a tangle once more -- is because every time we ask ourselves how…[more]
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how true fearlessness is intimately connected to our sincere wish to ceaselessly discover more and more about God's life.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about the importance of being present to what each moment reveals to us about ourselves.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how a still and attentive mind perfectly reflects the "presence" moment.
Listen in as Guy Finley discusses with Dr. Ellen Dickstein some of the important ideas connected to the release of his groundbreaking book, The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred.
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.
As life pours itself out in the stream of passing time, and we run into challenges seemingly greater than our ability to answer -- each of these encounters "asks" this…[more]
Seen or not, our attitude determines our altitude in life.
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.
The wish itself -- to be a higher person -- comes to you from a higher place and is received in its inner equivalent within you.
Guy Finley discusses procrastination and the false sense of self-mastery and justification we receive by putting off until tomorrow what needs to be attended to now. Learn how to stop…[more]
The next time something dark or disturbing tries to steal into you to wreck your contentment, do not consent to be drawn into its seemingly important considerations.
The truth is that letting go is very simple and, above all, natural; as natural for you and I as it is for a tree to shed the heavy, sun-ripened…[more]
We are at our core a creature of the stars: beings whose original and celestial stuff is not only born of light, but also intended to live unbound.
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.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how we are intended to use all of life's moments to grow into a more fully integrated and meaningful relationship with real life.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how any real request for something higher is proof that there already exists a relationship to the very thing that we are wishing…[more]
No one is free who lives with fear.
In order for change to take place, we must be changed.
You'll never know how forgetful of your self you are until you make the smallest effort to be self-remembering.
Before something genuinely new can appear in our lives, something old must pass.
The Life of Learning Singers perform Jesu Dulcis Memoria from their album, Door of My Heart.
No intention can be any stronger than our ability to remember it in the moment that it is needed.
Our willingness to see the difference between real and false strength brings about an inner change that puts us in an entirely new relationship with life.
It is not enough to just passively receive the lessons we are given. We must act upon their revelations and further clarify their import.
In our willingness to journey to what seems the end of us, we are gifted with the understanding that there is no ending to our True Self.
The person in denial of his or her own condition continues to ask for more of what didn't help the last time around.
Guy Finley speaks on themes from his best-selling book The Essential Laws of Fearless Living.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about a bright new relationship with life that is available to us when we are willing to drop our painful demands and wait for…[more]
Outgrowing Relationships - Learn why walking the authentic spiritual path necessarily causes some relationships to fall away.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about what it would mean for us to let real life sound its essential notes within us without the unnecessary dissonance of our resistance.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the nature of a higher love that never fails to respond perfectly to what is being requested by the present moment.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about an altogether new kind of victory that can be ours if we will agree to see what the present moment reveals within us.
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.
Guy Finley speaks about how it's possible to live completely free from fear, worry, and other self-limiting thoughts and feelings.
In this revealing podcast, Guy Finley talks about how attending to the true needs of others also allows us to discover our own limitless possibilities.
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]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the importance of being ceaselessly attentive to the activity of your own mind, which makes it possible for you to be the one…[more]
Meditation isn't just sitting someplace with your eyes closed, explains Guy Finley. Meditation is a constant, direct relationship with the sum of yourself in the moment.
Guy Finley explains why we need to change the balance sheet of our lives so that for every measure of impatience and intolerance there may be at least an equivalent…[more]
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about prayer, which is intended to help reveal to us the whole of our character, including the parts of us that resist being…[more]
Spiritual work is always interior work first, explains Guy Finley.
In this podcast, Guy Finley explains why it is so important to stand in the real light of awareness and become truly conscious of the parts of ourselves that supply…[more]
Like a flower that emerges from rocky soil
Only on a fully moonlit night, Truth appears
And its fragrance enriches whoever waits near.
Then suddenly, just as it appears
On…[more]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how conflict is born in those moments when our expectations about how life ought to unfold meet reality.
We have within us a new, higher vantage point -- a very special part of ourselves within which we may be at peace regardless of what goes on around us.…[more]
Love is a latent interior "hunger" we all feel through our longing to know -- deeply -- someone or something to which we are drawn. And Love understands that whatever…[more]
Why try and change your outer world, asks Guy Finley, when it is only a reflection of your inner life?
In this podcast, Guy Finley describes what it takes to let go and let a higher intelligence reconcile the sense of dissatisfaction we feel in our lives.
If we want a whole life, explains Guy Finley, we must be whole human beings.
Guy Finley urges us to find the places in our lives where we can take conscious, spiritual risks.
Any time is the right time to go quiet, explains author Guy Finley.
True freedom is not an achievement, explains Guy Finley; it is our awakened relationship and participation with the genesis of real life.
In this podcast, Guy Finley explains how being true to ourselves is the same thing as not resisting what life brings to us.
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]
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]
To sow spiritual seeds, explains Guy Finley, means that we do spiritual work.
To find an unknown God and an unknown Love is the duty of individuals who are weary of the old, known ways. In this podcast Guy Finley reveals the need…[more]
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.
In the early 1900s, before the age of superhighways, supermarkets, and the giant food manufacturers, things were very different, better in many ways. Small family farmers used to truck or…[more]
Guy Finley explains that true prayer must begin with a genuine request.
It is in loving, explains Guy Finley, that one finds love.
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.
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.
The object of any desire, explains Guy Finley, is powerless to bring an end to the desire that created it.
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]
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.
Guy Finley explains the power in seeing that we are actively involved with unseen thoughts and feelings that compromise us.
In this talk Guy Finley describes why inner tension, fear, and a sense of limitation exist, and then gives the listener an amazing but simple exercise to move beyond all…[more]
We are create, explains Guy Finley, with the capability of realizing the timeless truth of ourselves.
A special writing by Guy Finley which poignantly expresses the path we must take if we are to find God's Love. Originally presented at a classroom talk given on 8/2/06.
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]
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.
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]
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]
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]
Guy Finley discusses the daily disturbances that run through our lives and how we unconsciously take part in the conflict they create. Learn about a new kind of strength and…[more]
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]
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.
Guy Finley explains that each of us must do what Love asks of us individually.
It's only what you do right this moment, right Now, explains Guy Finley, that's the seed of personal change.
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.
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.
Anything within you that tells you there is no point in beginning to do something that you would love to do, explains Guy Finley, is not just your enemy but…[more]
Guy Finley explains that our experience of life moment-to-moment is, in fact, what we have asked for.
Guy Finley sheds light on the fact that negative reactions to unwanted events do nothing to cure them.
A special writing by Guy Finley revealing the path to true change. Originally presented at a classroom talk given on 11/13/05.
The best to way to help others, explains Guy Finley, is to give them room in which to grow.
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.
To enter the silent world of peace, explains Guy Finley, requires that we learn the secret of being still.
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]
Guy Finley reminds us that just as the sun never quits the sky but only waits for the earth to turn and face the light, so, too, must we turn…[more]
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.
We are spiritually free, explains Guy Finley, when not one part of us harbors any hatred or resentment for any other human being.
Although we are earthly creatures living a physical existence, explains Guy Finley, we are also meant to develop into and dwell within a higher, spiritual world.
We have yet to realize, explains Guy Finley, that our hearts are not only capable of forbearing the depths of our loneliness but are also meant to soar to heights…[more]
The reason why Truth sets you free, explains Guy Finley, is because it alone reveals that what you are held captive by has no reality outside of your wish to…[more]
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]
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]
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.
Guy Finley discusses how to get past justifying weakness and negative states through awareness of our pained condition and surrendering ourselves to a higher strength.
The 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]
Our life on Earth is a spiritual path. Our life is our path. There is no other. The path to the perfected life, to fulfilling the promise of our True…[more]
Kindness is something we all value and wish we are known for. Learn how to make kindness alive in your life.
In this lesson, Guy Finley illustrates how we can begin to become aware of the unconscious chain of pain and conflict that we pass along to others when we are…[more]
Guy Finley offers encouragement to those who find themselves alone on the Spiritual Path, and who long for some form of companionship.
Guy Finley shows how we can begin enjoying True Success by agreeing to accept the lessons life has for us.
A poem by Guy Finley on the wonders of contemplation.
A lesson revealing the extra effort needed on our part to realize True Freedom.
Prayer in Action: Seven silent prayers to turn your life around
Meditation & Prayer can show you how to let go and know that Life is complete and so are you!
Real transformation is a task that takes intentional sustained inner work.
How to make a truly Fresh Start starting over!
Ending disturbances by learning to understand the nature of life changes.
Taking full pleasure in life's joyful, renewal of experiences.
Learn why heaven and salvation is not a time to come!
Tips for fearlessly stepping into indecision and the unknown.
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]
Bring an end to the struggle to quiet the mind!
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]
10 Exercises for increasing your spiritual memory. Remember that every effort you make to remember to remember God increases His interest in you.
Find strength, peace and quietude in God's Will
Spiritual Practices and the Presence of God
What Love Has Made Me
The Soul is created to transcend itself, beyond what we think possible
Guy reveals a powerful secret for peaceful living through learning to want what Life wants.
Put God First
Leave Your Heart in God's Good Keeping
Let Go of Self and Experience Spiritual Rebirth
Learn about your individual level of inner freedom.
Be Aware of the Content of Your Own Heart
Love never dies. She cannot. She is life itself.
A thousand journeys, but one Path. A thousand lovers, but one Thee.
Cling Fast to Your Aim and Strive to Be True
The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who passing over a certain ridge comes upon an unknown Mountain outside his country and there catches a glimpse of a valley…[more]
