In this short talk, Guy Finley explains how everything that exists was made for us to discover our true nature.
Looking for the power to be happy is not found in a person, place, possession, idea, or belief, but through the new understanding that your higher, permanent nature needs no…[more]
Learn to see the deception in any assumption that wants you to believe that there is no higher alternative to your suffering than to either run from it or simply…[more]
Guy Finley explains how everything exists to bring you into relationship with stillness, from out of which comes real contentment and gratitude.
Guy Finley discusses our role in making this a better world, and how our actions do make a difference. Visit OneJourney.net for more information.
No self-described condition of what you have or don't have is at the root of your aching.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how everything that life brings to our door is intended to show us something new and true about ourselves... if we are…[more]
Higher self-knowledge empowers you to realize the better, brighter life you've always wanted!
Our awareness of the troubled thoughts and feelings roaming through us is the power that keeps their harmful and self-limiting influences from having control over us.
Everything that happens to us does so for the one purpose of revealing to us something of our present nature.
**Before speaking to someone who intimidates me, I sometimes feel my throat start to close up and my voice choke up with so much tension that I find it hard…[more]
Only conscious awareness of our aching can lead us to what authentically answers it.
Here's a short exercise to help you see the following fact: There's a way to know, without ever having to think about it, exactly which of your own thoughts and…[more]
No grief or disturbance of any kind is yours.
Our present experience of life, for its happiness or sorrow, is nothing more or less than what certain unconscious parts of us tell us it is. This means that before…[more]
There is no greater strength than knowing that everything life brings to you is for you.
Beginning this very moment, intentionally separate yourself from any rushing inner condition by voluntarily stepping out of it. Here's how...
To begin seeing that negative states such as anger, impatience, worry, and fear have lodged themselves into the hidden corners of your heart is to discover how they have managed…[more]
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about the life-saving wisdom of becoming aware of the various thoughts, feelings and states that move through us, rather than wasting our energy…[more]
When at last we see how our present sense of self is little more than a derivative of relationships with things outside of us, and realize that most of our…[more]
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about a new understanding of ourselves that will put an end to unconscious suffering... if we will remember to put it into practice.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how real revelation of the truth of ourselves transforms the character that has been revealed.
We can begin to free ourselves from negative states when we understand the truth about their power over us.
We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out…[more]
In this short talk, Guy Finley explains what it means to wait for a "Divine touch" that makes the darkest moments into something light, bright, and right for all involved.
If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that is never satisfied.
As we become more self-aware, a whole new order of understanding dawns.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how a still and attentive mind perfectly reflects the "presence" moment.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about the vital importance of going beyond mere knowledge about spiritual principles and beginning the real work of integrating what we know about…[more]
In this short talk Guy explains how each moment of life is made for anyone and everyone who is present to it. If you are not in this moment, you…[more]
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.
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 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.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how dissatisfaction with our lives is not something to be ignored, but rather something that can be transformed through diligent self-study.
The only thing of which you can be certain at any point in your life is what you are able to see about yourself in that moment. Which means the…[more]
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how we can learn to let go of unnecessary inner states like stress and anxiety by becoming conscious of their presence within…[more]
You have the Light to detect, dismiss, and to transcend the limiting influences of painful negative states such as doubt, worry, hatred, anger, and fear.
We are meant to take part in God's life through awareness of the freedom it continually reveals.
When you begin to doubt everything you believe about your suffering, you will see that you never had to remain in the path of those destructive storms at all.
You'll never know how forgetful of your self you are until you make the smallest effort to be self-remembering.
Whenever some dark storm appears in us, we must awaken to ourselves and bring ourselves back into the Now.
The Life of Learning Singers perform Jesu Dulcis Memoria from their album, Door of My Heart.
There may be no greater self-deception than the false notion that rushing through anything actually helps us in any way whatsoever.
The awareness of our living relationship with the present moment empowers us to know what's best for us without having to think about it.
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.
Every time we accept a negative state we compromise ourselves and increase the level of conflict for ourselves and everyone we meet.
Guy Finley speaks about topics related to his new book The Courage to Be Free including fear and fearlessness, beauty, kindness, love, and the authentic path to an enlightened heart…[more]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how we can begin to understand that what we call "unwanted moments" are actually life's invitations for us to discover more about our…[more]
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]
Guy Finley explains that events do not exist as negative events except for our perception of them.
Your awareness of troubled thoughts and feelings, explains Guy Finley, is the power that keeps their harmful and self-limiting influences from having control over you.
Nothing seems harder to accept than the fact that we are responsible for so much of what proves to be unnecessary suffering. But we must challenge this involuntary, often intractable…[more]
Here is a particularly vital idea for those of us who are tired of finding ourselves a surprised victim of our own actions: in this world of ours *response is…[more]
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 how we can learn to be conscious participants in this grand symphony called the present moment.
The only power dark, discouraging states hold over us, explains Guy Finley, is that they get us to identify with feelings of being powerless.
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]
We need never answer any part of ourselves, explains Guy Finley, that wants to punish us, intimidate, or otherwise drag us down.
We all know what it is like to be held captive of the little things in life -- those petty concerns and small desires that steal their way into how…[more]
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how true beauty is never absent from our lives, even in the midst of a troubling moment.
Never speak out of anger,
Never act out of fear,
Never choose from impatience,
But wait...
and peace will appear.
Our own mistaken perceptions, explains Guy Finley, literally produce the enemies needed to stay alive.
The next time you run into some familiar blockage or begin to feel unsuited to face some new and difficult personal challenge, don't do what you've always done before. *Don't…[more]
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]
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.
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 reminds us that you do not have to accept any condition that compromises your happiness.
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.
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.
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]
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]
Peace is not true peace, explains Guy Finley, unless you are at peace wherever you are.
We can help others reach higher by simply agreeing, explains Guy Finley, to give them space to go through their changes.
If we want a whole life, explains Guy Finley, we must be whole human beings.
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]
Truth wants you to know, explains Guy Finley, that it is never in your best interest to unconsciously suffer.
Any time is the right time to go quiet, explains author Guy Finley.
In this podcast, Guy Finley explains how being true to ourselves is the same thing as not resisting what life brings to us.
True peace, explains Guy Finley, doesn't exist outside of the "now" from out of which it is always unfolding.
In this extraordinary podcast, Guy Finley reveals the higher understanding that is necessary to find the Truly Fearless Life!
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how our minds react to what Truth is revealing within us.
The false self is trying endlessly to get your attention, explains Guy Finley, in order to point out to you that there is something missing in your life.
In this special podcast, Guy Finley explores the popular passage "Ask and you shall receive," and discusses what it means to really ask with a whole heart.
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how there is nothing more important than to Be Awake.
Real...am I.
Only when Thou art with me.
Real...I am,
Lives in remembrance of Thee.
When feel pain, we tend to take it personally and feel like we are the only ones in the world who are suffering. That seems like the natural thing to…[more]
Guy Finley explains that if our peace is built upon worldly forms, then it will be, at best, a temporary peace.
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]
It's often said that 'silence is golden.' But very few people on earth understand why this is so, let alone the immense possibilities this idea holds for the sincere spiritual…[more]
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]
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.
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.
Guy Finley explains how you don't throw a stone into a pond to get rid of a ripple.
One of the most shocking and necessary discoveries along the path, explains Guy Finley, is that what we love does not love us
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]
When the false self throws terrifying shadows, says Guy Finley, you must work to cast Inner Light.
It is in loving, explains Guy Finley, that one finds love.
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.
Guy Finley shows us that any desperate attempt to escape a trouble usually leads us right back into more trouble.
Find your True Purpose in life and how your connection to Real Love can be realized and lived in every moment.
A special writing by Guy Finley on what it truly means to be a peaceful and peace-filled human being.
The less pain we have over what life appears to deny us, explains Guy Finley, the more at peace we naturally become with ourselves.
Working with self-observation, we can actually see, explains Guy Finley, that these self-compromising thoughts are just that: thoughts.
The discontented nature, explains Guy Finley, always requires that something be wrong in order for it to set it right.
Learning to step out of the rush, explains Guy Finley, is the same as learning how to step into your own life.
By deliberately slowing yourself down, explains Guy Finley, when everything in you seems to be screaming, "Rush," you will become inwardly awake.
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]
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]
Anything that you have to control, explains Guy Finley, controls you.
Learn the truth aboout the law of attraction.
Guy Finley reminds us that no negative state wants what is right for you.
It's only what you do right this moment, right Now, explains Guy Finley, that's the seed of personal change.
We must no longer lend ourselves, explains Guy Finley, to the will of any dark state looking to use us as its vehicle.
Guy Finley illustrates that wherever you place your attention, you give life to that seed of thought.
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.
Guy Finley reminds us that happiness, love, peace, compassion, and contentment are timeless states of being in the Now.
One of the most powerful forces in the universe, explains Guy Finley, is Silence.
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.
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."
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.
True silence is not just the absence of noise, explains Guy Finley; it is a kind of spiritual medium in which not only are we able to discern what is…[more]
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]
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]
Guy Finley discusses the draining energy of negative imagination and how images drawn from our memories seem to validate our discouragement.
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]
This special writing complementing Guy's talk of November 21st, 2004, contains hidden treasures that hint at an entirely new way of living.
If we are ever to realize, explains Guy Finley, the integrity and consistent kindness of our True Nature, if we long to know something of heaven while we live on…[more]
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]
If we wish to find peace we must understand something of its life. Here are a few such facts: Peace is the natural radiation of a living Now; it is…[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]
This unique and inspiring writing by Guy Finley outlines 7 natural powers granted to those who will put forth the effort to remember them.
True freedom, explains Guy Finley, is found through awareness that clinging to our past experience is all that holds us captive.
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.
By transcending the thoughts that keep us a captive of our suffering, explains Guy Finley, we discover that we are already within a higher realm of understanding.
Guy Finley explains that choosing to bear, rather than reciprocate, the pain of others, is the only way to end the circle of suffering.
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.
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.
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!
Those who choose, explains Guy Finley, to stay the course over staying in negative, painful places find themselves that much closer to True Freedom.
Deliberately dare to slow down your life when everything in you -- or around you -- is screaming "Rush."
Why is this bold action a prayer? Every person knows what…[more]
By changing the ingredients of our life recipe from false images and negativity to awareness and understanding, we discover a new sweetness in life.
The present moment, where our being and and our nature meet, is the instant of our destiny. But how to get there?
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]
Guy Finley explains how by meeting unwanted moments with negativity we only serve to further cement the darkness within us.
In this key lesson Guy Finley explains how the now is meant to always be new.
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]
Guy Finley shows that to win authentic spiritual strength one must see through the illusions he has mistaken for that strength.
Guy Finley shows how we can reclaim our natural internal energy by seeing where it is that we are currently wasting them.
8 essential spiritual truths that must be learned along the Path to Real Life.
Guy Finley addresses common questions on the topic of self-awareness.
Guy Finley shows how we can use the appearance of pressure and stress within us to shake ourselves awake.
Guy Finley shows you a whole new way to live that is free from the punishment of self-wrecking thoughts.
An excerpt from Seeker's Guide explaining how to break our relationship with negative states.
Guy Finley reveals the unknown treasures hidden in spritual stillness.
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.
Understanding true peace and security.
It is in your power to be awake to the fearful voices that either project some doom or denouce you for making mistakes.
Learn to let go of any painful past condition!
Breaking out of old painful patterns, habits, and recuring problems.
Nurturing Love: How to be in True Relationship with another human being!
Selfless Living: How to Enter Into Perfect Communion Where God is Your Life!
Learn to Be A Self-Starting Individual Instead of a Self-Stalling One!
Learn how dark forces (devils) are always against you while Angelic forces (angels) are for you in every meaning of the word!
Meditation & Prayer can show you how to let go and know that Life is complete and so are you!
How to overthrow the addiction, the tyrant of dark domination!
How to see without judging others!
Ending disturbances by learning to understand the nature of life changes.
Learn why the most powerful tool for stress you have is True Silence!
Here are seven separate Higher Facts about the proof and the possibility of the Fearless Life.
Bring an end to the struggle to quiet the 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]
Spirituality is the Upper Path begining in the moment where the lower path is no longer tolerable.
New knowledge for escaping the punishment of dark thoughts and feelings.
Listen for God's Voice and Know Freedom
Be Fashioned by the Master Jeweler's Hand
Spiritual Practices and the Presence of God
Special Insights into Making a Fresh Start in Life
The Soul is created to transcend itself, beyond what we think possible
How To Defeat What's Defeating you
Be Aware of the Content of Your Own Heart
Take Time Alone and Find Freedom
How to be for yourself by being for the Truth.
How to deal with negative states.
Anticipation is a special kind of awareness where one is united with the spirit of what comes prior to its arrival
Understanding of the opposites is essential for your spiritual growth.
Heal the hurting in you.
Allowing nothingness its life slays both the illusion of emptiness and the self so fearful of it.
Awake and See the Light