In this special Saturday discussion Guy answers GuyFinleyNow member questions. Topics include: How can a person new to this work avoid getting discouraged over a seeming lack of progress; Is physical illness connected to a greater sensitivity to negative energies; Is it possible to remain aware of this very moment; Do we have karmic debts; Why don't I attract higher people into my life; Is it...

Topics covered: All awakenings are both terrible and beautiful; You can only be awake to yourself when you are present to the sleeper; Metaphorically speaking, you can't sit at the table and eat if you haven't worked; You don't have your own life the way you think you do; As you work on yourself you will attract that which resists revelation (second force); Anything that talks to you about you...

Do you remember the opening lyric to the classic song "Love and Marriage?" If not, allow me to refresh your memory: "Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage." Along with its memorable melody, this particular song has endured the test of time because hidden in the heart of its simple lyric is a celestial law about the power of attraction. If you recall, the rest of the lyric go...

Part I: Forgiveness is the flower of humility because as one is humbled by and through the Light of seeing his own base, insensitive nature, he also sees there can be no one possibly beneath him to condemn. He realizes his own nature is the same as the one he finds unworthy in his neighbor and that, as such, he is his neighbor. This realization is the beginning of Love, of forgiveness in its...

Classroom Talk: 11/7/2021 - We must make -- and keep -- a special place within us for what we love; otherwise, our heart becomes an overnight motel filled with the visitations of a thousand fickle lovers... not one of which is capable of loving anything other than itself.

The secret folly of we human beings isn’t that we struggle to have a say in our experience of life, but rather that — in spite of all evidence to the contrary — we cling to the idea that we understand the true nature of experience.

Psychologically speaking, what is true requires no protection, and never becomes negative when challenged. On the other hand, what is false almost never stops trying to protect itself, which it does by finding fault with whatever or whoever challenges the false image behind which it always hides.

Part 1To find the part of you that can love whatever any moment brings to you, is to realize the part of you that never fears or regrets anything that happens.Part 2Until we understand the unseen relationship that exists between self and its wants, we can never know what it really means to be true to our Self.Part 3As long as the highs and lows..

Making whatever sacrifice you make for what you love is the same as working for Love itself: a Master that always pays more than what is earned, and who never fails to advance the one who agrees to enter into His employ.

Classroom Talk: 5/5/2024 - Real Love can never betray you, for whomever starts with and then endeavors through what Love asks of them will come to know this greatest of truths that sets one free - Love's end point begins - and has always abided - within you.

No seed -- whether a kernel of corn, or a special talent -- can prove itself any more valuable than the sweat it takes to sow it, cultivate & nourish it until it offers up its latent Good. In much the same way, the soul is a seed; relationships are its ground; and what grows when all is properly cared for... is unconditional Love.

There is always a moment before a problem starts with another human being where we realize that what we want is not going to happen. Ordinarily we'll say the other person is about to "ruin my day." But there is, for those of us who want to understand, not only a way for our day not to be ruined, but a way for us to elevate both ourselves and the other person, or at least give them the opportun...