In this short talk, bestselling "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that to work in service to this world is to understand that every moment is bigger than our individual self-concerns.

In this answer to a viewer's question, Guy talks about how we cannot hope to help other people until we ourselves become a living example of what we expect from others.

The value of finding a true spiritual work group is that the whole body of the group -- together -- can help individuals reconnect with inner truths that they have lost contact with. There is a unity that exists in the consciousness of true spiritual aspirants who understand that the experience of one... is the experience of all.

I know that your absence from my life is less a question of your love for me than it is of mine for you.

The real underlying limitation in our relationships is rooted in how we look at and think about others who are in our life.

Self-observation is how we learn to become inwardly vigilant to our own thoughts and feelings, even as they pass through us. When we can observe ourselves in this new way, our higher nature naturally prevails over any troubling thoughts or feelings that want to drag us down into their lower world.

Real spiritual strength is realized, slowly, by daring to drop any self-blinding negative states that we have allowed to define us.

There's an old Zen saying "first there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is a mountain" which alludes to the fact that problems are not outside of us but are an aspect of one's level of consciousness. The clearer that becomes, that there is no mountain apart from the nature that creates it, then the mountain disappears.

You are able to get past any fear when you understand that the only thing keeping you involved with the state is you.

Whatever it may be that we find wanting in someone else, we must learn what it means to give that very thing to him or her.