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  1. Is Being Overwhelmed a Trick of the Mind?
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    Is Being Overwhelmed a Trick of the Mind?

    • Posted: 10/09/23
    • Meeting: 07/02/23
    • Time: 00:04:00
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    In this video clip Guy addresses the following question that was submitted by an online viewer: "I watched negative states telling me to react to this and that. I stood there. Then I was driving to work and I didn't stand there. They surrounded my mind. I felt consumed by I's. Is being overwhelmed a trick of the mind?"

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  2. What Am I Doing on This Planet?
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    What Am I Doing on This Planet?

    • Posted: 09/30/23
    • Meeting: 09/24/23
    • Time: 00:08:13
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    Watch this short excerpt by Guy Finley in which he tells two poignant stories that illustrate our deepest wish to know our purpose in Life and answer the ultimate question, "What am I doing on this planet?"

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  3. Connect Yourself Directly to the Source of Wisdom
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    Connect Yourself Directly to the Source of Wisdom

    • Posted: 09/27/23
    • Meeting: 06/28/23
    • Time: 00:04:12
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    In this question and answer exchange with an online viewer, "letting go" author Guy Finley answers the following question: Could you please comment about the relationship between human condition and divine order in us?

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  4. Stop Fighting Against Life
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    Stop Fighting Against Life

    • Posted: 04/27/23
    • Meeting: 03/29/23
    • Time: 00:02:54
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    In this short talk, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about the necessity of seeing truths about ourselves that the majority of us does not want to see. The "self" that fights with life, in order to get what it wants, does not want to fade away. It exists to desire, then expire its desires, and then imagine new desires. See the pain inherent in trying to keep that circle of "self" in place...

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  5. Wait and Receive What You Need
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    Wait and Receive What You Need

    • Posted: 07/02/22
    • Meeting: 06/15/22
    • Time: 00:05:40
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    In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about the painful deception of believing that what we want is the same thing as what we need. What you really need is to see that the wanting never ends.

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  6. How to Find Lasting Freedom in Spiritual Stillness
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    How to Find Lasting Freedom in Spiritual Stillness

    • Posted: 08/17/16
    • Time: 00:11:49
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    Guy Finley explains that real freedom is not found through obtaining powers or possessions, but in understanding the "wanting" nature within us that feels a captive of anything that interferes with what it wants.

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  7. There's No Sense of Self in a Right Action
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    There's No Sense of Self in a Right Action

    • Posted: 09/01/14
    • Time: 00:02:58
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    Guy Finley explains that true goodness is not measured by actions that validate the image we have of ourselves as being a good. An action that is truly good has no self-reference, and is the natural outcome of being present.

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  8. Insights Into a Whole New Kind of Success
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    Insights Into a Whole New Kind of Success

    • Posted: 06/17/09
    • Time: 00:03:07
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    Can you fail at wanting to do something? No, it is impossible to fail at wanting to do something. When everything is said and done, what your heart of hearts wants is to have no doubts whatsoever that you spent your life wanting God's life. There is no such thing as failure in a sincere wish for God's life; in truth, the success is in the wish itself. A sincere wish holds no fear, unless it b...

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  9. Some Notes on Natural Detachment from Negative States
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    Some Notes on Natural Detachment from Negative States

    • Posted: 10/27/08
    • Time: 00:19:13
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    There is a lot of conflict inside of an aspirant's heart. As an aspirant of a true spiritual life, you will run into many inescapable contradictions. Please read following sentence very carefully. There's no difference between not wanting a reaction that punishes you, and wanting to have a reaction that does not punish you. Wanting something and not wanting something are opposites that cannot...

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  10. What You Want Waits for You
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    What You Want Waits for You

    • Posted: 04/19/11
    • Meeting: 03/16/11
    • Time: 00:04:00
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    Topics covered: love, desire, wanting, putting truth first, God's life...
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  11. The Truth About All Forms of Troublesome Tension
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    The Truth About All Forms of Troublesome Tension

    • Posted: 10/30/10
    • Meeting: 10/15/10
    • Time: 00:10:00
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    In this short talk Guy discusses how false beliefs create stress and tension and how we can begin our work to be free of all pretense.
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  12. Free Yourself From a Life of Painful Fantasy
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    Free Yourself From a Life of Painful Fantasy

    • Posted: 03/29/10
    • Meeting: 03/03/10
    • Time: 00:06:00
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    In this short talk Guy identifies that the primary cause of flights of fantasy are to produce a hero or a zero. We unknowingly seek the familiar sensations the these flights produce. But awareness is not a sensation...
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The Essential Laws of Fearless Living

Here is your step-by-step guide to building the foundation of a fearless life. Learn how to see through the illusion of limitation and become unstoppable.

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