Guy Finley talks about how each of us is part of a goodness that is far different than any belief that the mind can imagine. Truth transcends belief. Our task is to find the truth of the way things really are beyond conditioned thinking.

There is hidden just behind every bitter disappointment the presence of a sweet light whose power can turn any unwanted event into a new kind of victory yet imagined.

The unseen contradiction in hating any given moment of life is that what we actually hate in such a moment is the way that we have consented to feel about it.

All unhappy thoughts are creations of a mind that visits what it does for the sole purpose of stirring up something with which to stimulate itself. To see this truth is to see that you are not this mind, nor its misery -- which further means you need never again consent to the captivity inherent in trying to sort out its sufferings.

The first step in dismantling any dark negative state is to remember that it has no right to be living within you.

When events do not go according to our expectations, we often light ourselves on fire with anger, blaming life for not having fulfilled our expectations. Then the mind will say, "That's it. I have figured it out. I will live the rest of my life without any expectations." But this one-sided mind does not see that thought as being an expectation in itself. Setting the expectation to have no fut...

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how we are not intended to manipulate or control everything that we see within ourselves. We are instead intended to watch and witness what is being revealed so that a higher kind of reconciling force can act upon what has been disturbed within us.

We have the capacity to stop making ourselves powerless by waking up to having put ourselves where our powers are stolen from us.