In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how real revelation of the truth of ourselves transforms the character that has been revealed.
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.
In this short talk, Guy Finley explains why the unconscious imitation of anyone else is the repetition of the known, and why real freedom cannot be found in familiarity.
The true nature of anything -- whether a newly opened leaf or a fearful thought or feeling -- is inseparable from what it serves.
We cannot experience anything that is not already a part of our consciousness. Any disturbance that we become aware of within ourselves serves as an introduction to an aspect of our own nature that we have been asleep to up until that moment. Within us are already dwells all that is needed for us to be complete, and the only thing that is needed to resolve any psychological disturbance is awar...
The "healing" we need, the sense of wholeness for which we search, has nothing to do with adding anything to ourselves.
Quite often our reaction when we witness someone perform something that is beautiful, unique, or inspiring is to either idolize the individual and wish that we had such a gift, or to resent the person and wonder why he or she was given an ability which we were denied. Instead of reacting as we usually do, it is possible for us to experience something beautiful so that its very presence remind...
Much like the strings of a piano that vibrate when its keys are struck, the events that we experience in our lives produce within us a natural resonance that is a kind of music. And yet there is an unpleasant interior disharmony whenever we resist events. Resistance to events that we say we do not want prevents us from seeing reality as it is. Resistance to unwanted circumstances perpetuates t...
Trying to resolve the pain within us by holding others accountable for it is like looking out at a field we have planted on our own property and wishing, every day, something other than what grows there would take hold and flower. If we wish to have true harmonious relationships with others, then it is we who must change. We must assume responsibility...
Within the space of each beat of your heart, you get the exact measure of the answer you gave to life the moment before.
The music you are hearing is entitled "Jesu Rex Admirabilis" by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594). In this four-part piece of music, there are ascending and descending lines that strike dissonant chords which are then resolved into harmonies, all of which takes place in one beautiful movement. When a summer breeze moves over a field of tall grass or wheat, you can see a whole movem...
Every single spider web that has ever existed has been an absolutely unique web. Every time a wind passes through a spider web there is a song that is being played, and because each web is unique, each song is a true original. Of course, you can't hear the song with your physical ears, but with your spiritual "ears and eyes", you know that a song is being played. Every human being is intended...