Transformation / Transcending

Human beings walk around in a kind of self-made suffering that is the expression of something in us that is afraid of seeing ourselves as we are. We've come to think that avoiding a unwanted fact about ourselves is the same as escaping the effects. Our lives should be a ceaseless realization of where we miss the mark, because that is the only way to transcend the idea that...

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.

Everything in this life is made to be impermanent, so that by the action of time, it can be changed into something new.

Even in the most devastating moments, taken rightly, is a secret invitation asking us to let go of and transcend the self we've been.

There exists in you a level of being that can know the spirit that is about to speak before it speaks it. This is the meaning of the scripture, "I go before you to make the crooked places straight." This higher order of "I" is present before the will of a lower "I" is about to act. When you see through its eyes you will not want to enact that which would punish yourself or others.

We do not need to think in order to know the right thing to do in the moment for ourselves, or for others! In fact, quite the opposite is true. The amazing possibilities that appear with each present moment are literally beyond thought. After all, the best moments in our lives -- those priceless times when we feel most alive -- unfold without our taking a single thought about them. That unfor...

Guy Finley addresses a student's feelings of inadequacy as she tries to express what she's learning. Guy tells her that if you wish to know God's love in this life, you must be willing to meet and walk into your limitations, so that real faith can be born in you.

Guy Finley explains what is needed to initiate a true change in our character so that we can begin to fulfill our higher purpose.

Guy Finley explains that when we meet our limitations head on we enter into relationship with a transformative power that enables us to transcend anything that would limit us.

Before we can change our destination and arrive in that higher world we want, before we can ever start out in that new direction that leads to liberation, we must wake up to the steps we're being given to take by a nature whose favorite direction is down. Victory over our own lower nature is now or never. Thinking, or hoping, that any destination we have in mind is going to be superior to w...

Just as there must be a marriage between the aspiring soul and the timeless Spirit that gives it life, so must there be a union between spiritual sweat, sacrifice, and the fruit of what that interior work reveals.

Guy Finley explains how the winter solstice -- a time when we switch from increasing darkness to increasing light in the exterior world -- is representative of a moment-to-moment possibility in our interior world. It is only when we allow the transformative light of consciousness to come into the dark of ourselves that we are brought into a completely different order of understanding.