Bestselling “Letting Go” author Guy Finley will conduct a free Webinar on “Learn to Embrace Life’s Most Difficult Moments” via GoToWebinar on Sunday, October 30th. Everyone is invited to join this free, live talk plus Q&A session with Guy. Register at www.guyfinley.org/sunday and you will be emailed the view link right before the talk.
Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.
Topics Covered:Real freedom cannot be shattered. What kind of freedom is it if it can be taken away?; The farther one travels, the less one knows; The outer world is not separate from the inner world in the usual way that we think; We usually think of karma in the sense of a painful consequence for having done something wrong. The word "karma" is more closely connected...
Topics Covered: Temptation is connected to looking for release from what's wrecking you; Corruption is the aberration of imagined freedom; You wouldn't imagine freedom unless you were already a prisoner; Having an enemy is the corruption of your soul; This Work isn't a prison; There is a nature in us that keeps accounts; You are the hope of this world; Complaining about others is stealing from...
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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.
We are spiritually free when we no longer want anything to do with sitting in judgment of others, regardless of their perceived transgression.
The end of suffering is not found in the pursuit of freedom from suffering, but in seeing through the very nature of desire that generates the suffering to begin with. The problem is not what we desire, but rather our unseen identification with desire itself, and the endless cycle of conflict it creates...
It is possible for the willing soul to awaken from its spiritual slumber, but such freedom has its cost: We must catch what compromises us, realize the fact of it, and then see how our identification with that unconscious character causes our continuing sorrow. Now, here's the encouraging news: as we cease being identified with this unnatural, false self, our True Nature reveals itself. The sl...
As paradoxical as it seems, our journey to reach the undiscovered territory within our own consciousness -- this distant High Country above and beyond thought whose Promised Land lies yet hidden within us -- begins with a strange and often shocking discovery: What needs to be escaped are the constraints of our own conditioned consciousness. In other words, the freedom we long for is from our p...
Topics Covered: We cannot DO anything to create freedom. What we CAN do is understand that which takes freedom from us. Our reaction is usually one of doing instead of seeing; There is no captivity outside of ignorance of the activity of our own consciousness; There is no such thing as "I can't" when it comes to your spiritual life. What you are really hearing is the voice of an...
Just as the caterpillar must let go of what it has been in order to realize the butterfly it's created to become, so too we must yield to what is above us if our wish is to know its freedom as our own. As in the eternal relationship that exists between the greater and the lesser: the greater is continually pouring out its life, giving its light to the lesser. This means that *the lesser is mad...