The greatest, most abundant resource on planet Earth is also its least understood and utilized. Its unlimited supply is found virtually everywhere, anytime, and under all circumstances, even though few recognize its real value. What is this most precious collective resource? It is our relationships. Consider these truths: It is within relationships that we grow as individuals in everything...
Blaming conflict-filled feelings on any condition, or person, outside of yourself is like getting angry at your shoes for being laced too tight. So here is an effective inner life step designed to help you grow and develop greater spiritual strength: No matter what happens, never blame anyone -- or anything -- for the way you feel. Rising above the blame game is the same as learning how to be...
In this amazing one-hour program, Guy Finley distills 30 years of spiritual understanding into an incredibly powerful set of principles and instructions. **Not only does it reveal the one true answer to the age-old question, ""What is it that's been missing from my life?"" but it goes on from there to explain the one essential action that transforms that understanding into truly breathtaking ex...
Our willingness to see the difference between real and false strength brings about an inner change that puts us in an entirely new relationship with life.
It's a little-known secret that our experience of life in any given moment is a direct reflection of what we actually value in that same moment. We may deny this unsettling truth, but when it comes to what we are in relationship with, inwardly and outwardly, actions speak louder than words--and, seen or not, all actions are a choice of one kind or another...
True respect for oneself must include humility, otherwise what we call respect for ourselves is really just a form of secret self-love that has as much in common with real love as does a postcard picture of a coastline with the crashing waves it depicts. To see the truth of this, we start with looking at the respect we feel towards those individuals we've met whom we just know are somehow gr...
I have tried to think that I am okay and don't need to change, and that the rest of the world is crazy. Yet, I do use TV, reading, etc. as a distraction from the suffering and pain of my reactions to life -- to my worry, anxiety, fear, and anger. You've said that we can't fix this self that the suffering creates and tries to fix at the same time, and that we need to let God see our suffering.
Do you deal with inner pain every day? Are you beginning to sense it doesn’t have to be this way? Are you ready to explore new avenues to free yourself from a force that sucks all the power and joy from your life? These talks give you the deeper spiritual understanding and inner-life tools that can pull you out of your present condition and set you on course to live in a different kind of world.
Blaming conflict-filled feelings on any condition, or person, outside of yourself is like getting angry at your shoes for being laced too tight. Most men and women recognize the need for a healthy balanced diet because good eating habits nourish the body. Good nutrition helps keep us agile and strong. And we also like to learn new skills to expand our interests. Challenging mental activities...
Though we often find ourselves feeling so, in truth... there is no such thing as being powerless. We see how a person who resists life -- who hates or fears unwanted changes -- becomes the instrument of a power that effectively renders him powerless to do anything but struggle. But we've seen the converse as well: the one who realizes that the only power negative states have is to create the i...
I spent this last weekend (of June) in Stockbridge, MA., presenting a 3-day intensive workshop at the Kripalu Institute. During one of the talks, I spoke about a particuilar set of special ideas that struck a note with many of the people there, and I was asked to provide them with a hard copy of those ideas...for reference and as something to later ponder. The piece that follows is developed...
Even though we often find ourselves feeling so, in truth... there is no such thing as being powerless. We see how a person who resists life--who hates or fears unwanted changes--becomes the instrument of a power that effectively renders him powerless to do anything but struggle. But we've seen the converse as well...