My spouse of 25 years died. My heart is in pain, and though I know that God is here, I don't understand the purpose of life and such suffering. My father died recently and I find myself often slipping into thinking about my grief -- overcome with memories, regrets, and a sense of loss. Though I can't conceive of how it may be possible, I can't stop hoping that my father remains in God's love...

In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about how our lives are reorganized when we start to see that our own will is in conflict with Life's Will. The Divine knows what we need before we know it. When we see that with more clarity, then that observation will organize our mind in such a way that we will begin to recognize what the Divine is revealing to us in each moment.

The moment I feel resistance, the moment I feel that contraction inside of me, I must understand that I am being introduced to myself. I've been brought to the bear, to touch the bear! That anger, that rage, that impatience appears in us. You and I know we have these states in us. We can dress up and appear pretty and appear like we're in control of ourselves, but every last human being...

Topics covered: A certain kind of flowering takes place in letting go; Conditions in life help us with our interior journey; Real change takes place when we stop refusing the lesson; Currently our actions are prompted by the fear of suffering; Using pain as a teachable moment; Disturbance is part of life; Reaching the moment where we see nothing we have done has put us 'in control'; We can't r...

We are wrongly led to believe that life makes us into the kind of person we are. The truth is that the kind of person we are -- our life-level -- makes life what it is for us! This is why nothing can really change for us until we see that our unhappiness isn't connected with the event, it is the level of it. Let's look at this a little more deeply. We believe that we meet events and that thos...

Topics covered: As you grow old and go through physical changes you have the opportunity to let go of the self that is caught up in appearances; You can't know what you haven't been prepared to understand; Everything needs food to grow; Your life is always engaged in the need that dominates you in the moment; What draws you into the desert is what leads you out of it; What you currently call n...

Topics covered: Until we see a bigger picture of the real world that we live in, we won't be able to really know and experience endless new beginnings; If you want to experience what is new, then you are going to have to let go of your ideas about newness in favor of the actual relationship with what is always new; We can see the evidence of renewal all around us...

In this answer to a viewer's question during a live broadcast, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about how everything in our lives becomes rightly organized -- including the pursuit of goals -- if we will remember to put first things first.

To go quiet, you must go within and become an impartial witness to the life of your own thoughts and feelings.

I work consciously every day with many of your suggestions to overcome inner resistance. But I have a longstanding progressive illness that I don't know how to "crack." I have gone through major life changes and so have been exposed to a lot of stress but have worked to let go of them. However, the intense pain of my physical condition just seems to worsen... would you have any thoughts on this?...

Topics covered: What is inspiration and are there different ways to use it; How can these teachings be applied to art; What is the difference between denial of a problem and letting go of it; How can I better discern practical, necessary thought from unconscious, hurtful thought; How do we drop a disturbance without resisting it; Some of my passions are not supported by friends and family; Are...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 21, 2014. You cannot protect yourself from psychological pain or disappointment and hope to court the Divine at the same time; the narrow entrance into the heart of heaven is a movement; (it is) an unknowable accord found only where revelation and letting go converge and merge, and from their union give birth to a new order of being that is one...