Student Talks: 8/21/2020 - Key Lesson: Part 1: The divided mind -- driven as it is by unconscious desires -- is very similar to a dog that has learned to throw its own stick. It cannot come to a rest until it has exhausted itself, and even then it can’t let go of what it feels compelled to chase. Part 2: The cost of starting over spiritually...
Student Talks: 9/1/2023 - Key Lesson: No one is obligated to "love thy neighbor as thyself," let alone to seek and find one's place in the Great Circle of Life; yet, "it is written" in the stars themselves: all must eventually pay for what they have done against themselves, or others. For Justice through balance is Divine Law, enforced by its tireless, unfailing love...
If we want new answers to old self-defeating questions such as "Why me?" -- we're going to have to use our mind in a new way. If we want new answers, real answers, we need new questions. First, we must realize that our stressful experiences are not caused by people or events. They are caused by our reactions to them. I know this is different than most of us feel, and yet, we can see that we have changed the people and even the events in our...
There isn't one thing, in every moment of our life, that isn't a mirror. Not one. Only we've never been taught that there is an invisible, eternal, incorruptible intelligence that is literally both that which we see and ourselves seeing it.
Student Talks: 07/24/2026 - Attempting to use thought to grasp the meaning of any moment in life is like reaching out with your hand hoping to capture and hold a sunbeam in it.
ED: Hello. I'm Dr. Ellen Dickstein. Welcome to a Fireside Chat with best-selling inner life author, Guy Finley. Guy, in your new book, Let Go and Live in the Now, you relate a special idea that really deserves deeper attention. You tell a short story whose moral is expressed by this short poem: "The feel is real, but the why is a lie." So many of us would say we feel the pain of suffering, bu...
Topics covered: What we take to be certainty is really uncertainty masquerading as certainty; A person's entire destiny can be changed by the willing reception of a truthful idea; Negative reactions are difficult to let go of because when they come along there is no part of the reaction that says, "There's a painful negative reaction"; Observation of a negative reaction allows us to consciously doubt it.
Learn what it takes to drop self-wrecking habits and addictions as you get to the root of substance abuse, codependence, overeating, depression, and anxiety.
To see what is true is not the same as being true to what you see, let alone working to embody it. Not yet. It's the beginning of it, because it's the invitation from truth. It touches you. It says, "Will you see this?" And then you either agree to see what the truth has requested you to see or you turn your eyes from it. And may God have mercy on the souls of the individuals who turn their eyes from what truth wants to show them...
Occasionally, for all of us, we accidentally enter into the flow of the Now. We could be skiing, skating, doing yoga, playing golf, and suddenly our activity aligns us with the flow of that moment. Emotionally we can enter accidentally into the Now when we look out and see the sun breaking through the clouds or we catch the evening light as it shades trees differently. Intellectually we can enter into the Now when we have an insight and an epiphany comes.