Any time you are sitting at home and a thought comes and says, "What about this? What about them? What's going to happen if this?" you are burdened. You are carrying on your back, in your heart, in your mind, the weight of a set of thoughts and feelings you believe have the right to ride you to where they tell you to go... as if you were saddled by a donkey!

Too often it happens that some people lose their interest in self-study. They give up on their inner work because they don't see the immediate results hoped for. If anything, in their growing awareness of what has always been their actual condition, it seems to them that they are now even deeper asleep than ever before...

In this short talk, "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that -- far from being discouraged about what may or may not be happening in our lives -- we are intended to participate in the ceaseless revelation of an ever-present and benevolent order of being within us that never stops expressing itself.

In this short video, Guy talks about the difference between observing thoughts versus identifying with every thought as if it were your own.

In order to nurture our own awakening, we must first see the need to let go of those parts of us that we sense no longer serve us. This new kind of self-awareness is the interior “seed state” needed to outgrow and transcend our former level of self. But these seeds of higher self-knowledge must, in turn, become new actions if they are to awaken us to our immortal Self...

To see the truth of the above is to understand how important it is for us to be as fully mindful as possible in the midst of a disagreement with our partner.

To remember yourself begins with realizing you have been asleep, taking part in a self-centered life instead of the God-centered one.

Our feelings about the world that we see, with all its confusing colors and schemes, are reflections of our own internal life.

Since what others may do to us is not in our power to change, we need only concern ourselves with what we do to ourselves, for this is in our power.

What very few men and women ever come to realize, spiritually speaking, is that life is a ceaseless series of inner choices about where they want to live.

In this excerpt from an hour-long seminar, Life of Learning Foundation founder and director Guy Finley explains that we must work to harness the energy of negative forces instead of allowing those forces harness us. The full replay of this class is available in Life of Learning Foundation's online community, GuyFinleyNow.org, where you can join other true spiritual aspirants from around the w...

If you wish to enter into a new relationship with life you must be willing to challenge the voices of "I can't" or "I won't" or "I don't" when they appear in your mind. This is the only way you will discover that those voices are not really you.