Topics explored in this dialogue: Life is always revealing in the same moment both what we are and what we can be; Real life is revelation - it is constantly stirring us for the purpose of revelation which leads to creation; We all do the best we can, but can we do better? Yes, but before I can do better I must know better; All events are neutral and as such are not responsible for the psychol...

We must prove our fears false, or we will never know true freedom. This act of courage is the only one that requires we do nothing.

Seeing the spiritually lost state, the interior bankruptcy of other human beings, can be used to accelerate your own relationship with the Divine, but only if you understand that you are not on this earth to judge the nature of others, but to transcend it.

We must prove our fears false, or we will never know true freedom. This act of courage is the only one that requires we do nothing.

Topics explored in this dialogue: There is no difference in the way men and women suffer, just differences in what we suffer over; We have false ideas about what our life is about and for, which results in a lot of fighting with life that produces constant pain; The root cause of fear, anxiety, doubt has to do with valuing ourselves according to how others see us...

Topics covered: What is the distinction between presence and pursuit; I struggle to deal with a family member who has a disability; Should I go back on my word with people who I now feel are detrimental to my spiritual path; I often feel a physical reaction of tension when I come back to myself; I regularly wake up in the night and am flooded with negative thoughts; I'm confused about the diff...

Topics covered: Anything that talks to you about a time to come, other than practical thought, is setting you up for a fall; Human beings are meant to be a finely tuned instrument; You are a captive of trying to free yourself from captivity; Anything a human being wants to escape owns them; The pain that you suffer, regardless of its physical or mental source, has very little to do with the pa...

Guy explains how we must use our attention properly to prevent identification with physical pain from causing psychological pain.

It's impossible to separate being identified with some false purpose in life from the unconscious suffering that it produces.

Topics explored in this dialogue: When we run into life, it's because we're not actually alive and present to ourselves; The true nature of a fearless life has nothing to do with anything that we can win in this world; All of our relationships exist to teach us deeper lessons about who and what we really are; We are created to neverendingly outgrow who we are; Anything that defines us confines us.

Guy Finley's monthly call-in radio show, Guy Finley LIVE! Topics explored in this dialogue: Events in and of themselves have no character, we give them meaning by how we meet the moment; There is no intelligence in a fearful mind; When I hold a strong feeling about something I don't want, the pain I'm feeling is generated by me; What good does it do to be afraid in the face of a crisis, to let...

My question is about despair. After a long illness, I realize that to be happy, there has to be a willingness to not think about self or self-imagined problems. You have pointed to the need to call on the light or step into the light when assaulted by dark forces, yet I do not seem able to do so consistently because I am exhausted by physical illness.