In this short video, Guy explains that there is a treasure hidden inside all of us, and that part of this treasure includes the understanding that we are not who we think we are.

In this Q&A Guy Finley explains that what we really fear being judged is what we have imagined ourselves to be and what we then think we need to do to protect what we've imagined.

ED: Welcome to a fireside chat with bestselling inner life author, Guy Finley. Today I would like us to talk about being in the world but not of it. We live in a world that is always screaming for our attention. We are bombarded by all kinds of temptations, stimulation, scary news... and I think we all ask, what is the proper relationship that we're supposed to have with the world? GF: No one...

Sometimes I feel as though something has a hold of me and is stealing from me my life! For instance, I find myself drawn to hang out with people I don't really want to be with, or for that matter, I think thoughts that punish me, and I don't understand what is happening. Can you shed some light on this darkness I seem to be in?...

It is impossible to change the relationship we have with the world around us without changing the relationship we have in ourselves, with ourselves.

When a mind is at rest, anything that stirs it is instantly recognized. When we can be awake to what stirs us -- become conscious of what is always pushing us, moving us, drawing us along -- then we have a chance to actually begin to recognize and realize what it would mean to be able to sit in a room and not have our mind pulling on us from a thousand different directions about a thousand dif...

The possibility of realizing our highest Good is hidden in every unwanted moment of life where --if we wish to realize the grace that awaits us there -- we are asked for what amounts to an act of Divine obedience: and that is to yield ourselves to whatever we're given to see as true (about us)... without resisting the nature of what we're being shown, let alone to ask the question "why?"

Student Talks: 1/23/2019 - Key Lesson: The only reason we ever get “disturbed” over what others may or may not think about us...is because there is something in our present nature that wants to be.

Student Talks: 11/18/2022 - Key Lesson: The past does not give birth to the future, any more than we might think to look for the living in a graveyard.

The one who awakens is no more troubled over what others may think of him or her than is the sun concerned by people who complain it rises too early, or sets too late!