Guy Finley explains that setting intentions and working on spiritual exercises helps us to see parts of ourselves that we are currently unconscious to and have no authority over -- and it is seeing that disparity that begins to bring those parts into proper alignment with a higher will and authority.

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how the ending of large-scale wars in the outer world must begin with individuals who are willing to stop going along with the interior excuses that justify having enemies.

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how stillness cannot be brought about by any kind of will of our own, but that a real relationship with stillness is established by becoming aware of the division that is created by our own mind's willfulness.

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...