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.
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.
Studying wise principles without putting them into practice is like learning how to read music but never owning an instrument through which to experience the sound of those notes you know.
When it comes to seeing the truth of our lives, the late, great author Vernon Howard taught those who would listen that "The medicine is bitter, but it heals." If we would heal the hidden hurt in us then we must learn that the initial bitterness of self-truthfulness is the front runner of our ultimate spiritual betterment. Our work is to concede to the bright prescription of higher self-honest...
Guy Finley responds to a question about the spiritual potential of autistic children, and reveals that the true responsibility of a caregiver is to first live up to their own potential.
One of the sad reasons why so few men and women persist in the inner work necessary for higher self-discovery is because we have all become -- to one degree or another -- either an unwitting captive of, or willing participant in, what can only be described as a descending scale in the meaning of life. More simply stated, over time our values have been subtly shifting away from the love of *th...
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In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how we must always make an effort to be awake so that we can begin using life's currents and waves for our own interior growth.
Dare to put aside all relationships other than those which serve to reveal what is essential to your real desire.