Trust

How many times in your life have you acted not just against yourself, but perhaps against others because your actions were uninformed, and you were moved prematurely into a conclusion? Too many times to count really. And most of these premature conclusions had some negative taint to them -- judging somebody, arriving at some insistence based on incomplete information.

Before we can hope to shatter the pattern of familiar conflicts in our relationships, we need a new level of understanding to take with us into those same moments.

You are not your own reactions, anymore than the burst of a flashing skyrocket is the night sky it temporarily illuminates.

The real power behind faith is found in the Light within us that shows us what's true, and what's not, about who and what we are in reality.

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.

In this short talk, best-selling "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about the spiritual need to become aware of the deceptive parts of us that claim to protect us from harm, but in reality do nothing but put us in harm's way.

Just as we need to keep an eye on the kinds of friends we keep around us, so must we also remain aware of the circle of "friends" we keep within us.

The more we are willing to learn about the way fear works, the less power it has to work its ways on us.

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how a true change of character can be realized by seeing with great clarity what it is that we value most.

There is a story in the New Testament in which Christ emphatically throws upside-down the tables of the money-changers in the temple. And yet Christ was (and is) the representation of a beneficent, compassionate, and loving intelligence -- love thine enemies -- judge not lest ye be judged. How does one reconcile Christ's edict of "love thine enemies" with the fact of the over-throwing of the m...

There is an ancient idea, perhaps best expressed in the New Testament, which states that before a human being can hope to awaken, he or she must have not enemies. When you lie to someone, you have automatically made an enemy because you will always resist that person out of fear that he or she will expose your lie at any given moment. Therefore, not only have we made an enemy when we lie, we a...