Guy Finley's monthly call-in radio show, Guy Finley LIVE! Topics explored in this dialogue: Thinking life is supposed to be easy is a false belief - life is supposed to be meaningful; Conflict never goes away when you think it must be answered by you; Punishing yourself doesn't prove you're really loving, it proves you're asleep.

Far more important to our inner success than coming upon so-called secret "how-to" practices -- or those who would teach them -- is the work to awaken our awareness of our need to be more awake. It is this awareness alone that remains our true friend and ally upon the path. Here is why: Our willingness to remain in the emerging awareness -- this Light in the darkness of ourselves -- helps t...

Topics covered:  A key does not do any good if it stays in your pocket and if you don't put in the lock and turn it. Likewise, if you don't prove true spiritual ideas for yourself, then the ideas can become worse than useless; What is the one thing that never comes to your mind when you find yourself in a negative state?... That you could actually be interested in what you have no interest in. Our interest is usually in what we have to do in order to escape from the negativity; We are not rightly interested in our suffering. We are wrongly interested in what to do about it. What would happen if we could actually be interested in what we usually have no interest in?

Worrying over any problem seen as gathering in the distance -- in order to avoid feeling disturbed by it in the present moment -- is a lot like throwing cold water all over yourself so that then you can have the pleasure of wrapping yourself up in a warm towel!...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 20, 2014. Here is something that almost never occurs to the parts of us that so often feel lost, alone, and without direction: in each of these dreaded moments we stand in the exact place where these same parts first suggested that we go... and that then took us there!...

Classroom Talk: 10/13/2021 - Only consistent, persistent inner-work can lead us to the threshold of the "Truth that sets us free." And yet, the following is equally true: the unassailable liberation we seek will continue to elude us until every effort to know the truth of ourselves -- by thinking about ourselves -- has proven useless.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of January 5, 2015. Part 1: The pain in any unwanted revelation over our present level of self is a creation of that same lower level of self that doesn't want its nature revealed. Part 2: There is no real consolation in our spiritual struggles unless we enter into them understanding that whatever sacrifice may be required of us serves a higher purpose t...

Real joy is not of this world. It is liberation from the illusion that there’s something yet to be gained in this world that we need to complete ourselves; it is freedom from the illusion of a false, and fallen sense of self...

We are never more alone than when surrounded by those dark thoughts and feelings that gather together to throw us a pity party!...

No worldly acclaim or possession can ever make us feel whole, let alone free us from that irreconcilable fear that comes with feeling ourselves as apart from others, and from life itself. Only by consistent, persistent interior work to remain awake and watchful can we place ourselves in a conscious relationship with higher, eternal influences...under whose authority are we released, at once, f...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 10, 2014. Our love for what is Right, Bright, and True is constantly being tested... Not only by that timeless spiritual Light that calls us to take its side, but also by the nature of that darkness created in its absence... through which we must walk in order to realize our intention to be whole, fearless, and free.

Following are five ways in which your awareness of the power of now can transform each challenging life experience (or memory) into a new and true beginning for you.