In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how true fulfillment is connected to using our life for the purpose that it was given to us.

Yours is also the right to effortlessly recognize and release anger and frustration, to be able to see them for exactly what they are -- false powers disguised as helpful guides in times of duress.

Few are those content with the direction their lives have taken; fewer are the men and women willing to learn why their destiny feels outside their control; and fewer still are those individuals who persist upon the path of self-discovery until realizing the truth of why their worlds unfold as they do. One of the sad reasons why so few men and women persist in the inner work necessary for hig...

An ember lying in a fireplace cannot do anything to ignite itself. However conditions can be created in which the ember can be brought into a new relationship with its environment and thus be turned into a small flame. The point at which the ember catches fire is its ignition point. There is an ignition point for physical objects, but there also exists a kind of spiritual ignition point. A tru...

The true purpose of self-study is to invite something Good into our lives that then provides us with the unshakable goodness we were previously unable to give ourselves.

Once when I was speaking to a small gathering of students about the secret nature of true confidence, one of them asked me the following question: "What's your best definition of being a truly successful person in this life, and how does one go about that achievement?" As you are about to read, my answer mentions nothing about becoming recognizably powerful, having fine possessions, or winni...

As a rule, the first thing we experience -- whenever we see something negative in us -- is an involuntary negative reaction: we immediately condemn ourselves. But Light never condemns; its nature is to reveal, transform, and release. Which means this mechanical mental activity going on in us -- along with its aching --must be going on for some purpose other than our perfection or protection.

There is no brighter gift, no greater potential given to we human beings, than the presence of a timeless Light within us whose power makes all things possible. This ever quiet, always present Light goes before us at all times, as does the illumination of a lamp move ahead of the one who walks by the safety of its beams. One may wonder: if this Light is already within us -- a timeless power...

Far more important to our inner success than coming upon so-called secret "how-to" practices -- or those who would teach them -- is the work to awaken our awareness of our need to be more awake. It is this awareness alone that remains our true friend and ally upon the path. Here is why: Our willingness to remain in the emerging awareness -- this Light in the darkness of ourselves -- helps t...

In finding any true teaching, there is always the chance that we can become wrongly identified with the conceptual ideas in the teaching, so much so that we begin to draw our life just from the ideas alone. But on the other hand, hearing and studying true ideas is a necessary first step because we know that a true teaching contains right ideas that we need to hear. The potential stumbling bloc...

When you begin in earnest to invite the light to reveal more to you about yourself, you will begin to see what has been hiding within you. As you discover more and more about the truth of yourself, the parts of you that do not want to grow and develop will attempt to deceive you with lies and threats such as, "Don't go any further with this; this is dangerous territory because you won't know w...

The small handsome sign over the new shop in town was simple. Its hand-carved wood-block letters read: Rare Wine Shop. Hanging directly beneath it was a smaller, arrow-shaped sign, pointing directly to the always-open shop door. Brightly painted letters spelled out the invitation: Visitors Welcome! Taste the difference! And inside the shop the lights were always on, so that no one passing...