We must all do certain things in life. This is a given. Duty is duty. But as long as we feel a difference between what we must do and what we give our love to, we will never know the abiding peace of a whole heart. There is only one way to love life; and that is to love the One who grants us the gift of it. It is easy to profess such a love and another thing, altogether, to enact it. **Act...
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Key Lesson: If you want a "misery-backed" guarantee that the painful relationship you have with whatever troubles you about someone -- or with something -- will never change... Just keep complaining to yourself about it!
My own mother is full of bitterness and negativity. I find myself distancing myself more and more from her, even though she is on her own and physically not well. I just can't take any more of her mud throwing, etc. I gave up trying to help her ages ago. What can one do about such a relationship with their own mother? (From student correspondence)...
Human beings are endowed with certain features in their nature that may allow them to choose what they become. And since the choice is not whether to become one thing or another, but rather in whose likeness we are becoming, the wise among us see this fact and work accordingly to align ourselves with those forces intuited to be for the highest good. Then their goodness becomes our own, and our...
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Guy Finley talks about how we currently live from an agitated nature that searches for "peace" through its own frenzied activity. Our awareness of this fact is what seeds within us a new relationship with real peace.
Within you dwells a beautiful, higher mind that you may not yet be aware of. Its power includes perfect judgment, effortless intuition, tireless compassion, and spontaneous creativity. Once you're introduced to its infinite possibilities and feel even a touch of its celestial strength, your experience of life will never again be the same! **The higher mind defies easy description, but the es...
Nothing serves to create a greater sense of isolation -- a feeling of being cut off from life -- than being at the center of your own thoughts about yourself...
It wasn't that long ago that men and women understood that the purpose of prayer wasn't to bring things into their lives to make their lives better. It was so that through prayer, they could bring themselves into a completely different order of their own consciousness.
Have you ever fallen down in a relationship? Fallen down when someone cut you off on the freeway? Fallen down when sudden economic news came at work? Fallen down when a thought revisited you about what mother or father didn't say, or what was taken from you by someone who promised you something and gave you another? Why do we have to fall down? When we...
Our experience of life, our relationship to it, is directly, intimately connected to the way in which we see it -- meaning it is our understanding of life that determines how we "go" through it. This is why new, true self-knowledge is essential; the more we realize about who and what we are, and what is our true purpose in life, the less we resist what takes place around and within us. And as...
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In this powerful talk, Guy Finley talks about how we can have a real relationship with the Divine by seeing with great clarity that we presently give our lives away any time that we ignore what we know to be true.