Have you ever noticed just how unhappy you can get over the fact you are not happy? Unexamined, this behavior seems to make sense. But a closer look at it will reveal that being unhappy over being unhappy is like throwing gasoline on a fire to put it out. You get lots of fire and smoke -- even a strange excitement -- but in the end all you are left with is ashes. This is why you must understan...
How do you move from a life of endless problems to a life of endless possibilities? Learn to cultivate the four conditions of happiness: clear eyes, a quiet mind, a sense of beauty, and an open heart. The best way to get started up this royal road to inner riches begins with a simple idea. Don't try to be good. Just prefer the good; then, do the best you can to act the good. Want what is true...
What was it that made growing up hard to do? Have you ever thought about it? What made growing up hard to do was that the meaning of our lives kept changing. When we were young the meaning of life was given to us by a world whose meanings always proved themselves to be empty. What we have called the meaning of our life has turned out to be the source of our pain so many times, that at a certa...
Before we can have and hold a happiness beyond the reach of conflict or sorrow, we must first understand what it means to be in touch with the whole of ourselves; for only when we are reunited with all that we may be does it become possible for us to know a new kind of Contentment that cannot be darkened or diminished.
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I have been studying metaphysics/positive thinking/spiritual truths for many years and in some ways I have grown from it. However, at this late date in my life I have to look up and say: "So what's it all about, really? " After all this knowledge, and acting on it most of the time, I am left without a friend, and now I have cut ties with my children. I have lost everything I ever possessed. I...
Student Talks: 11/5/2021 - Key Lesson: Spiritual wisdom is our greatest wealth. And when, at long last we see this is true -- so that our first love in life becomes the wish to discover the truth of ourselves -- then each moment of every relationship serves as the doorway to the indwelling Divine.
The real cause of our unhappiness has nothing to do with which way events or relationships turn. Even though it often feels like it, dark inner states aren't born in the actual unfolding of any present moment, but are born afterwards, from unconscious resistance to any event that somehow opposes our wishes. It is clear that the source of our suffering isn't that life fails to live up to our e...
The heart watered by tears born of self-pity slowly hardens and turns to stone.
Classroom Talk: 8/1/2003 - The difference between being angry with ourselves, or at someone else, is found only in the image held in our mind at which we lash out. Either way, the effect of this unconscious fire in us is always the same: It is we who get burned!
Sit face-to-face with Guy Finley as he imparts the wisdom of the ages. That's how you'll feel when you watch the remarkable DVD album, Wisdom's Path to the Happiness Within. Just pop a DVD into your computer or DVD player, sit back, and be transported into a living-room like atmosphere. You'll see Guy speaking right to you as he tells you the stories that...
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Watch or download this special webinar presented by Guy on Sunday 10/31/21 on the topic of his album, Wisdom's Path to the Happiness Within.