In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how real freedom is finally found when we are willing to go through the pain of doing what is right.

To be able to see any life event -- good or bad -- as a vehicle to help transport us from our present level of understanding to a higher one requires that we develop a new relationship with these unwanted events in our lives. Instead of trying to protect ourselves from them, we must become willing to see what they are revealing to us about ourselves in that same moment. The difference between these two paths and their attending possibilities...

Guy Finley's monthly call-in radio show "Guy Finley LIVE!" broadcast on HealthyLife.net on 10/20/09. Guy Finley discusses the topic of how to "Give Wings to Your Wish for Freedom."...

Guy Finley explains in this short talk how all of us must eventually leave behind the consolation of familiar spiritual ideas and begin to act on what we know is true by agreeing to see what real life wants to show us about ourselves.

Remastered Classic Talk: 11/2/16 - What we see, and take, as being the meaning of any given moment -- including our experience of it -- is a direct reflection of the level of self being revealed by that same moment. This invisible relationship between the observer and the observed is the "mirror of the Divine". And it is only in this relationship -- in this "mirror" -- that we are able to discover not only the meaning of Life, but what is also our original role within it.

 

Persistent painful problems in life are born out of one essential weakness: our inability to direct and keep our attention on what we choose to be in relationship with in the moment.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 3, 2016. What good is the love of Truth without standing up for the freedom it promises to those whom love it? This means that we must attend to, embrace, and then enact what is Light, Right, and True, even in the midst of all that may seem wrong within or around us. Only by daring to bring this intention into the midst of any such dark moment...

Classroom Talk: 4/6/2005 - Looking to negative thoughts, or dark emotional states, for the power to help you out of some unwanted moment in life, is like hoping that your own shadow -- cast by the sun setting behind you -- can guide you out of a desert in which you have become lost!

Classroom Talk: 7/23/2023 - A true search for the beginning of things must, invariably, lead to the end of things; but the end of things is not the end of the awareness of them.

Classroom Talk: 04/13/2025 - Awakening is the (graduated) process of negating all forms of identification; (it is) the realization that no matter how real the feel of any familiar sense of self - for its pleasure, or pain – nevertheless: no sensation does a “self” make, any more than a wave on the sea makes the sea from out of which it rises, and must return.

We have no idea about the nature of real power; it isn't the ability to control, or otherwise resolve, the outcome of some conflicted relationship in life...so as to restore some lost sense of harmony; no, real power rests in seeing, in real time, that all (our) relationships are completed in the same moment they're revealed. So that...real power is not over things; it resides, without asserti...

It seems to me that the main reason we suffer, as we do – over the things we do – is not because these things, in themselves, have the "power" to punish us, but rather because we forget in these moments that who we really are cannot feel "punished" without having forgotten that God is good. This last idea can be stated this way: It is forgetting the truth of ourselves that keeps us in the...