In this short talk, Guy Finley explains how a true spiritual principle becomes self-evident when we are willing to see ourselves as we are in the moment of contact with everyday life.

Guy Finley explains that setting intentions and working on spiritual exercises helps us to see parts of ourselves that we are currently unconscious to and have no authority over -- and it is seeing that disparity that begins to bring those parts into proper alignment with a higher will and authority.

Guy Finley explains that setting intentions and working on spiritual exercises helps us to see parts of ourselves that we are currently unconscious to and have no authority over -- and it is seeing that disparity that begins to bring those parts into proper alignment with a higher will and authority.

Any part of you... any thought or feeling -- pushing you to express, or otherwise speak these words to another -- "See, I was right!"... Is wrong for you....

The distance between the Divine and ourselves is the same as the length to which we go to justify all we do that serves only our self-centered interests.

Ceaseless activity, constant mental and emotional commotion, is not just the avoidance of our unwanted sense of emptiness, but... it is also complicit in its continuing cause.

There is neither success nor failure when it comes to the work of self-realization. Revelation is not our victory, and what is revealed is not our loss.

It is possible to know so much about the nature of fear that, one day, it simply runs out of ways to make you believe in its shaking.

The fear of having nothing to do is how the level of self that is nothing occupies itself so that it can stay busy resisting its own emptiness.

One of our deepest spiritual longings is to be able to face, without fear, whatever trouble comes our way because the strength we need to do so is already a part of who we are.

In this brief talk, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about how the discovery of who we really are -- our "true self" -- is possible only as we become more and more aware of the legion of false identities that have been operating mechanically in the dark.

In this short talk, best-selling "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about the spiritual need to become aware of the deceptive parts of us that claim to protect us from harm, but in reality do nothing but put us in harm's way.