Be wise. Stay Awake. Remain attentive to all that you do, for there comes no second error that doesn't follow on the heels of the first.

There is a story in the New Testament in which Christ emphatically throws upside-down the tables of the money-changers in the temple. And yet Christ was (and is) the representation of a beneficent, compassionate, and loving intelligence -- love thine enemies -- judge not lest ye be judged. How does one reconcile Christ's edict of "love thine enemies" with the fact of the over-throwing of the m...

Guy Finley's monthly call-in radio show, Guy Finley LIVE! Topics covered: The real source of any problem is connected to pain; What you want is what causes your suffering; Life's sole purpose is to reveal itself to itself; Be aware of what is meeting the moment within you; Want what life wants; Impersonal vs. personal; A real explorer can't go wrong; Keep the light on what is revealed; How att...

Topics covered:  You can't know with your mind what is calling you to make the interior journey that saints and sages have spoken about; "Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there." -- Jalal al-Din Rumi -- "For he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." -- New Testament -- These two passages are essentially saying the same thing; Part of the interior journey is to enter into another order of being that allows for the opposites to pass through its field of awareness, but is never defined by those opposites.

Anxious thoughts and feelings are powerless to restore order to anything. The fact that these tormenting and secretly limiting states can seem to be even remotely helpful...proves just how out of order our lives have become!...

Accidents of the painful kind will happen, no doubt; but the greater part of them would be eliminated if we simply stopped "creating" them...which is exactly what happens as we walk through life inattentive to who we are and what we are doing.

A person can spend many years searching for truth, and at a certain point, because his or her findings have been incomplete, that man or woman will begin to wonder whether or not an authentically fearless life actually exists. Truth itself wants you to know that not only does a life without fear exist, but that it is your right to have such a life. And yet there is an immense difference betwee...

The purpose of true spiritual study is to begin a very slow and steady process by which the human mind that is willing to be educated is brought into the presence of new understanding. This new understanding is not something that you can give to yourself, but it must start with certain ideas that are intended to come between you and your present suffering. Presently our suffering feeds on itse...

In this Saturday discussion Guy explains how the mind presently seeks balance and the necessity of working to be actively passive in order to truly learn.

The one who dares to go beyond what he thinks he can do will always meet a point where he has a choice to either return from where he has just come, or to remain where he is... in a world without power. But, if one stays true to his wish to be (made) new -- if he will only...

Whenever we are not present and properly attentive to ourselves, we may be sure the false self is busy attending to something we'll be paying for in the days ahead.

The road called "Do Things Halfway" leads to "Do It Again" junction located just outside the little town of "Misery."...