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In this brief Q&A session, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley talks about bringing an end to the painful position of thinking that life owes us something, and what it would mean to have real gratitude.
How can someone be given so much and -- rather than being grateful for the abundance of these gifts -- be so negative over a single element in the midst of them? Closer examination of such a situation, and the inconsolable level of self that gives rise to it, may show us that we have more in common with this discontented character than not. It's impossible for us to...
Behind every bitter disappointment lives the presence of a sweet light whose power can turn any unwanted event into a new kind of victory not yet imagined.
The following higher insights are rarely discussed among the spiritually uninitiated because of the measurable effect that their strong medicine causes in the soul. But not only do they help summarize a prescription for a free life, they also present the case for why we need such a healing. Welcome these truths into your mind and watch how their refreshing view of reality leads you to that unc...
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Guy Finley explains that as we awaken spiritually, we will gradually discover the truth about our authentic poverty, and in the process learn what it means to be grateful for everything we are given.
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In this short talk, Guy Finley explains how everything that exists was made for us to discover our true nature.
Most of us feel love for truth and light only when we believe that it is giving us what we want. But if getting what we want is the only standard by which we measure our love, then when life changes as it must, the love that we profess to have for God will turn into deep resentment and pain over what we believe God has taken from us. When we become identified with anything that we believe we a...
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...
There will be moments in our spiritual life in which it will feel as though we have nothing -- in which there seems to be no promise. It is during these difficult times that we will have to make a choice. We can do as we have always done in these moments of feeling empty and search for an escape through some form of distraction. Or we can choose to become truly conscious of the feeling, not be...
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 to your present thoughts and feelings as is the mighty oak to its own spreading branches. Once you come into contact with its perfect strength and power, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. Great mas...
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...
The following key lessons are taken from 365 Days to Let Go. Use their insights to help free yourself from the self-inflicted punishment of complaining. Until we become conscious of how many more times a day we complain about our life than we feel gratitude for the gift of it, we not only miss the taste of life's secret sweetness, but we continue to sow the bitter seeds of our own sorrow.