Seeking fulfillment it empties itself. Seeking importance it compromises itself. This is the self that opposes itself.

What is it that makes us feel powerless when someone does something and it punishes us, or we hear some unwanted news? Let's examine it. Something happens that I don't like, and what am I looking at in that moment? I'm not looking at the thing that I don't like. What I'm "looking at" is the whole condition of myself that feels challenged, threatened by, overcome through whatever it is that it sees. But what does it see other than something that it resists?

Last night, while trying to sleep, I was troubled with thoughts of a relationship that has brought me problems. I was trying to simply watch what was happening instead of dwelling on the thoughts passing through me. It seemed for a brief moment that I could feel the darkness passing through me since I was watching it and trying not to be caught up in it. This darkness seemed to have an almost...

There is only one path that leads to a relationship with what is holy, and therefore perfectly complete... And that is to see -- without flinching, and finally without regret -- that all of the (seemingly attractive) paths through this life always end right where they began: in a too-familiar, but terrible, sense of emptiness.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 9, 2015. The real meaning of any given moment can never threaten the truth of who you really are; it can only serve to strengthen, and enhance your relationship with a Higher Order of Consciousness already present within you that is the source of all possibilities.

Guy Finley's monthly call-in radio show "Guy Finley LIVE!" broadcast on HealthyLife.net. Topics explored in this show: Fear doesn't exist apart from an unconscious relationship with negative imagination; How many times have you encountered something that seemed greater than you and filled you with a feeling of inadequacy, and then hatched another plan...

There is a direct and proportionate relationship between the degree of inconsolable pain that we have and a deep-seated misunderstanding of our real purpose for being alive.

The "healing" we need, the sense of wholeness for which we search, has nothing to do with adding anything to ourselves.

We are made in the image of the Divine. Now, that doesn't mean all that we hope it means. It actually means more than that! It means that you and I, as humans, exist in a temporal form that is, for all intents and purposes, a place where a host of magnificent laws and forces converge. Opposing forces reconcile and create a body that is essentially the mirror of a set of perfect opposites -- right hand, left hand, right eye, left eye.

In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that we are working for the wrong master whenever our intention is to gain a worldly reward as the result of our work. When we work for the right master, the reward is always a new relationship with the moment and a revelation of something that we didn't know was true about ourselves.

There is a higher relationship that has nothing to do with anything personal at all. It is the realization of the existence of strength, of majestic beauty, of power... and that realization is inseparable from the consciousness in which it appears. And that consciousness isn't personal. It belongs to what is Divine in a human being and it is a gift of the Divine.

In the highest parts of our consciousness, there is a living relationship whose meaning is inseparable from the world that it sees and experiences. There is no need to "take thought" in order to know that we are alive. To think for ourselves properly means to be aware of our reactions to the world, and to not allow those reactions to run wild on their own...