In this answer to a viewer's question, Guy talks about how we do harm to ourselves and others with any action we take that has a motive behind it. When there is no self-motive, then there is only what is pure and good.

Guy Finley, Director of Life of Learning Foundation, explains that the only way to find real freedom is to become aware of the fact of our captivity. Then there is a humility born through which a higher will can work within us.

Life, in its expressed perfection, provides endless possibilities for an individual to understand humility. As you catch the part of you that wants to be or express what you know is not good for you or others, there is humility in just seeing how attached you are to your own will and compulsive behavior. The day will come where you're able to not express this lower nature, and you will feel gr...

"Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains what Mothers Day represents spiritually, and what a real "Mothers Day" actually is.

In this short talk, Guy explains that true spiritual work is not about memorizing a teaching, but instead it is about us learning to see the truth for ourselves, from ourselves, through experience.

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how we cannot really learn anything new about ourselves without first letting go of our present level of understanding and the sense of self it produces.

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.

Guy Finley talks about how we must risk persisting with what we know to be true even when the sun is not shining.

In this short talk, Guy Finley explains the difference between the false kind of shame that shackles us to a self that is trapped in the past, and the proper kind of conscious remorse that is the seed of true humility and freedom.

In this short talk, Guy Finley explains how real compassion is the fruit of the mind that awakens to where it is harming itself.

The better the instrument, the nearer the actual replication to the original principle. We are meant to be sensitive instruments whose purpose is to let God's hand play His notes through us. And in fact we are created to actually enjoy the "sound" of reality that is being played. As a result of the natural enjoyment of the notes that are being played, we can become for others a reminder that...

Here is a great secret about authentic prayer: When a man or a woman really prays, there must be some trembling behind it. If there is no trembling behind a prayer, then there is no implied sacrifice behind the words in the prayer. The authentic nature of all prayer is to establish a direct communion with conscious forces -- with God's life. We ought not pray with arrogance or with an attitud...