It's impossible to be identified with a negative state unless you have an unseen stake in the reason for its appearance.

In this Saturday discussion Guy explores what it means to take proper action in our inner work. Presently we are improperly active or passive toward negative states which leads to unconscious identification with the self that blames the feeling on exterior events...

Happiness, love, peace, compassion, and contentment are timeless states of being in the Now. In their original principle they are without form, having no beginning or end. These forces of the Living Light exist in themselves and have no cause apart from their celestial source, much as the sun exists apart from the life-giving light that radiates from the surface of its hydrogen heart. But for...

Topics Covered: Until there is a new awareness of consciousness, the divided consciousness is the observer; The observer never judges, instead the observer sees the judge; Explaining the reaction is the same as avoiding awareness of it; A hurricane serves the broader celestial system; The divided consciousness only wants awareness of something for the sake of what it wants...

I am having trouble distinguishing between giving attention to the practical actions needed to be taken in daily life and the attention you talk about (head vs. heart). I have fear every day while looking for work and the income to sustain my family. How do I use this experience to learn to live without fear, yet deal with the practicality of human life (rent, food, gas, etc.)?...

Do what is in your power: refuse to do what is not. It is not in your power to change events gone by, but you can let go of the time-bound self that wants to chain you to pain that only exists in the past!...

Thoughts turn into acts And habits are formed, From habits the shape Of character is born. In character is forged Each soul's destiny, So does Truth make plain The seed is the tree!

In this special Saturday discussion Guy answers GuyFinleyNow member questions. Topics include: How can a person new to this work avoid getting discouraged over a seeming lack of progress; Is physical illness connected to a greater sensitivity to negative energies; Is it possible to remain aware of this very moment; Do we have karmic debts; Why don't I attract higher people into my life; Is it...

Thoughts turn into acts > And habits are formed, > From habits the shape > Of character is born... > ...In character is forged > Each soul's destiny, > So does Truth make plain > The seed is the tree!...

Topics covered: 'If tyranny and oppression ever come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy;' A human being that is set against himself is a good definition of someone who has no sanity; Nature is not set against itself, so how is it possible that a human being can hate himself; If a human being lived in reality he couldn't be set against himself; 'Give me liberty or...

It's crucial for us to understand that the thrust of our habitual thinking lives with its attention fixed, not on beginnings, but on the end of things. Don't we always wonder what our lives will be like tomorrow? Aren't we forever dreaming about how different things will be once we win this or achieve that? Don't we, in our mind's eye, perpetually walk towards a brighter moment to come, thinking about how good we'll feel once we're able to resolve some...

Topics covered: Review of the double attention exercise; Right now your attention is the instrument of personality or instinct; Division at the level of the opposites is conflict; Exercise to not entertain negative thoughts about other people for a week; Identification steals your relationship with stillness.