No reaction to a reaction can release you from the prison of patterns that enclose and sustain the life of the reactive self, anymore than yanking on the tail of a lion has the power to make it release you from its mouth.

The clearer we can see that negative states must have an excuse to exist within us, the sooner -- and more strongly -- will arise in us a refusal to grant them a place anywhere in our heart, mind, or soul.

Learning higher ideas without putting them into practice is like putting garden seeds into a jar and hoping for a good harvest. Not only do these stored seeds eventually go bad, but they can do nothing but make noise until they do!...

You have said that there was a time when men and women understood that without a relationship with something higher, they didn't have a real life. Their lives were built on the understanding that they were working, growing, developing. They may have had jobs and families, but their lives were based in a completely different relationship with life -- a relationship that is all but gone today. C...

I divorced my husband just over two years ago after a 20+ year marriage. He was on a path of self-destruction and I could no longer be a part of what he had become. His decline accelerated over the next two years until this morning when he called to tell me he intended to kill himself and he just wanted to say goodbye and thank you for trying my best. A part of me is attempting to convince mys...

I have a problem that I just can't seem to shake: I can't seem to be faithful. I know it's wrong, but I just don't learn my lesson no matter how many times others, including myself, have been hurt. I'm so full of regret. I'm lost, disenfranchised, and have only hurt others and drawn them away from the light as well. I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing on this earth but know for certain...

I am convinced that I was somehow "urged" to pick up "The Secret of Letting Go." It was all so simple, yet to me it was absolutely profound. Since then, I have listened to many of your talks. I began trying to meditate, and over the years life slowly began to open up before my eyes.... Naturally, there is still much growing to be done, but thanks to your work and others like you, I have experi...

I have struggled with anxiety and fear all my life. I have taken medication for this for over 20 years. I have been to therapy and I am in the Work every day. One of my major goals has been to get off medication completely and since accomplishing that, there have been some very, very tough days and nights -- bouts of insomnia and days of pain and irritability that have challenged me to the hil...

In this short video, Guy Finley talks about the necessity of remaining as conscious as possible to any kind of inner psychological pain in the moment that it appears. Guy explains that, in spite of us believing that we do not want the pain, something within us will not let go. Our work is to find out what it is that seems dedicated to holding on.

All the Divine asks of those with whom it agrees to share its perfect strength and solace... is that we agree to exchange whatever darkness it reveals within us for the Light that it has given to us... to release us from the same.

Life will empty whatever you fill -- and whatever you empty, Life will fill. That's the code -- the hidden higher understanding required for spiritual wholeness; in this eternal Law is hidden the timeless splendor of the soul, all wrapped in mystery and filled with bittersweet contradiction.

There's only one way to realize the unshakable sense of safety and serenity of knowing that you are "first" on God's list, and that is to remember, at all times, your wish (and the work) it takes to place His life ahead of your own.