Guy Finley explains that when we lend our attention to considering any worry, blame, regret, or resentment, we have unknowingly agreed to be commanded by that negative state.

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how we are not intended to manipulate or control everything that we see within ourselves. We are instead intended to watch and witness what is being revealed so that a higher kind of reconciling force can act upon what has been disturbed within us.

Guy Finley comments on the April 9, 2014 stabbing incident at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, PA. He answers the question, what causes a young person to act in such a violent way and what can we learn from this type of event?...

You have within you something that is quite capable of knowing what is good for you and what is not. And although presently it is necessary that you learn new knowledge and find a true source of guidance, ultimately you do not need books or teachers to know from yourself what is true about you. There is something that lives within you that will never harm itself or another human being. When y...

Most of us are certain that the reason we are upset in any given situation is because of what someone else has done or not done. In general, our day-to-day interactions with other human beings are tainted with some kind of conflict, whether it is in the form of an outwardly expressed war or an inwardly suppressed resentment. There is a passage in scripture that says, "Physician, heal thyself.

In our daily lives--within our small worlds from which we look out presently--we seem to come into contact with people who either cause us to suffer, or who do not show us the proper amount of respect. To put it bluntly, living in that small world of ours is not fun. In fact, it can be downright painful! Fortunately there does exists a world that is not just my small world, in which there is n...