In this video, Guy Finley explains that the true role of a teacher is to remind students of their actual condition, which presently is an unconscious state of "spiritual sleep." Authentic spiritual work is a gradual awakening to what we have falsely taken ourselves to be.

The next time you feel yourself starting to become frustrated, angry or scared, do your best to confirm this vital insight: Negative emotions cannot exist without having something to blame for their punishing presence. The clearer for yourself you can make this spiritual fact -- about the dualistic nature of spiritual weakness -- the better prepared you'll be to take your next step toward hig...

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how, if our wish is to find true contentment, we must begin to give more and more of our attention to our internal compass and the spiritual home to which it points.

The one who rushes is continuously almost where he imagines he needs to be... to be free; whereas the one who dares to slow down his life discovers that he is always standing in a living Light wherein he sees that he is... and has always been free!

I just finished listening to a talk you gave about spiritual debt. I think that I understood most of the talk, but at the very end you say something like: "You pay this debt by instead of trying to produce conditions for yourself that bring love or peace or kindness, you pay in the moment with that which feels incomplete, with that which fears, with that which would seek advantage over others.

Real spiritual strength is realized, slowly, by daring to drop any self-blinding negative states that we have allowed to define us.

Guy Finley responds to a question about the spiritual potential of autistic children, and reveals that the true responsibility of a caregiver is to first live up to their own potential.

Whether in a crowd or setting for two...let the usual embarrassment of unwanted silent moments act upon you as a spiritual springboard, catapulting you into the Sacred Space which rests serenely above painful false self concern.