Seeking power, it weakens itself. Seeking fulfillment, it empties itself. Seeking control, it abandons itself. Seeking security, it frightens itself. Seeking relationship, it betrays itself...
The attempt to "save" ourselves -- to rescue and release the troubled "me" -- without first understanding just who and what this nature is that would save itself from its suffering, is the first real threshold over which the sincere aspirant must pass... since the presumption on the part of the seeker here is that he or she knows what's wrong with their life...
There is a reason why most people never find a life that fulfills their longing to feel new, naturally free, and inwardly fulfilled. They do not know the one simple step they must take to invite this Newness they long for. But your life can be different, because that one step is revealed in Guy Finley's powerful audio program, Secrets for Making a New Start in Life. In this seminar you...
I am still on a long and tough inner journey. After many years of struggling with this rough nature, it still will not release me. I remain pretty much me even though there are fleeting moments of peace. I try to bear the pain when it's there and embrace the peace when it comes because I really don't know what else to do. I still get so frustrated at times, and then I have to catch myself. I s...
We find it natural to seek relief from the world around us, a world appearing to be one stronghold atop another of stressful conditions and anxiety-producing events. Accordingly, we seek relief from these contentment-crushing states by struggling to change those circumstances we see as being responsible for their cause. Think of all the ways we've attempted to escape those unwanted pressures...
The beauty of Great Nature is found in her infinite unique forms; her splendor reflects and reveals a ceaseless process of creation born of the timeless marriage of opposites. On the other hand, the ugliness -- the violence that can erupt in our human nature -- is first the presence, and then the pressure of a dark and twisted character; this pain is the unnatural fruit of our mangled misund...
The spiritually awakened life is not something that one achieves -- the true higher life comes to us naturally and reveals and expresses itself in anyone who realizes that this living light within us is always present.
Fear's power over us is nothing more than the way it causes us to forget the truth of ourselves, which is this: we are created to eternally transcend the limits of our present nature, to transform who and what we have been in the very moment it ceases to serve the good of us. But, because we have forgotten this or -- more accurately speaking -- because we are asleep to its power in us, we ar...
All creatures in life are created to reach their natural fruition. The Great Life generously provides all of them with everything they need to fulfill their promise. This same abundance holds true for our spiritual awakening as well. Everything we need to succeed is forever raining down upon and within us. The spiritually awakened life is not something that one achieves, like an award for fin...
There is a refuge within us that God created when He made the human soul. Each of us has access to this refuge that holds the silence through which we come to know God and to be healed. Stillness is our strength. It is necessary for healing and it is the secret ground of our life. This refuge that dwells within us is not measured by, subject to, or in any way altered by the changes the outside...
When we are "driven" to succeed in this world, it is always to arrive at some point wherein we will no longer feel as though something is missing in us. All such drives in us are doomed at the outset. Here's why...