Question: I am troubled by something I read in The Secret of Letting Go. I do understand and agree with your point that a fancy job title accompanied your life seems to lack meaning. However, the "rules" of this modern era state that being passive and letting life come to you leaves you vulnerable to missing out on the opportunities. In other words, being proactive prevails while passivity...
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In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains that every sleeping human being is a narcissist, seeing nothing but him or herself in everything that happens, and then not wanting anything that challenges the glorified self-image. Freedom comes from the seeing of these facts.
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In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains that nothing in creation flowers before its time. Our task to continue to carry with us the wish to understand, and what we wish to know will be given to us at the right time.
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In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains how our minds call upon the assistance anxious and fearful thoughts in order to save us from anxiety and fear. Seeing this contradiction gradually brings an end to our dependence upon thought to lead us to freedom from these negative states.
Once we understand that all forces -- even the seemingly contradictory ones -- are secretly complementary, we stand on the threshold...
Letting go is the journey and it never ends. Never. It only begins -- over and over again -- each time we can glimpse something higher than our own painful certainty over who we think we are. So it is here, within ourselves, that the work of letting go must be done. To fully see what is unwanted by us begins with revealing what is unknown...
Before we can experience the truth of a higher state of consciousness, before we can stand on the ground of ourselves that is the secret stuff of Reality, we are asked to quietly be who and what we are in the Now. To do this we must learn to let go of those parts of our present nature that are never quite pleased with what is. After all, doesn't it seem that we are always in some sort...
I am in the process of starting the practice on the principles outlined in your book, The Secret of Letting Go. I feel it is a process that will take its own time for getting the expected results. Meanwhile, how do I successfully deal with actual difficult circumstances in my life? I was swindled and cheated on several years ago in a promised marriage relationship, and have since been involved...
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In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains that in an unwanted moment, we have the choice to be actively aware of the burning reaction, or we can be passive and allow the reaction to dictate our actions. The awareness of the consciousness that has the reaction is the beginning of our freedom from it, and there is no other freedom than that.