There may be no greater self-deception than the false notion that rushing through anything actually helps us in any way whatsoever.
Have you ever had appear in your mind the image of someone who hurt you, or run a whole mental movie about something that didn't work out, so that in recalling the event you actually relived the sense of loss? How does such a painful image seem to stay in the mind, especially given the fact of how much we struggle to make it go away? We all know how it feels to try and "fix" such visitations,...
The real reason people remain captives of unwanted circumstances in their lives is because they've yet to realize this great spiritual secret: Resistance is negative attraction. In other words: the longer we dwell on what we don't want in life, the larger grows that dark dwelling place in which we find ourselves living. ~~~ You need not answer to any disturbance within you. Any form of res...
What we must always remember is that the only work we do of lasting value is the work that we do for ourselves within ourselves. We have a definite conditioned dependency to think of things as worthwhile only if someone else recognizes their value. This painful kind of thinking not only leaves us tied to trying to please others, but it also discourages us from embarking upon the exciting journ...
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Welcome to this fascinating audio program, Three Conversations With Guy Finley. As you listen to Guy’s discussions with three popular radio hosts, you will hear many of the answers to some of your own deepest questions.
What is spiritual strength? It can be said in dozens of ways, but for now let's put it like this: it's knowing you don't have to compromise yourself in any way -- with anyone, over anything -- in order to be content, confident, and secure in life. Here are seven proven ways to increase this new kind of spiritual strength. Study them with the wish to uncover the secrets hidden in their empower...
Have you ever thrown your hands in the air and asked yourself "What in the world is going on with me? How come my best intentions and the ability to accomplish them seem to live in two different universes?" We intend not to run off like a mad human being, spending money ill-afforded. We intend not to do something mean-spirited or otherwise self-defeating. Yet that is often just what we do...
Have you ever fought over a parking place? Have you ever jumped up to make a phone call to straighten someone out? Have you ever snapped at a family member? These are moments when you sell your soul. What you are involved with at such times is the outrage that someone should take something from you or do something to you. The "you" looking at life through the negative state is the negative sta...
What about you? Are you sure you have to go down with that ship called an abusive relationship, substance abuse, or the self-pity that always attends these punishing states of self? Do you see yourself as someone addicted to something, and believe this sinking condition is the way it has to be? Does it feel as though there is no way out from under that barrage of negative thoughts and feelings...
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Never fear the loss of what will, and must disappear in this world of passing time. The work of remembering this timeless, (but unwanted) truth is the same as connecting yourself to the love of an all-embracing, fearless awareness... that never dies.
If you can do nothing else in some moment of being a slave to some negative state, then at least work to remember your real wish to serve what is right and true, regardless of the cost to you. This higher intention is your connection to a level of consciousness that can't be dragged down into that darkness through which you now stumble. Although hard to "see" when so blinded by some rage, fe...
Have you noticed yet that wherever you go, the thing that you don't want the most seems to know where you are? Seriously. It doesn't just know where you are. The Divine has created the conditions under which a reaction will be stirred and brought into your consciousness so that you can finally realize that running from it doesn't change the reality of it. Only bringing it into the light...