It is not our duty to suffer over what will be or won't be -- to live with painful regret or guilt over what was or wasn't. Our soul task is to be responsible for what is -- and to allow this relationship with life to produce what it will. There may or may not be suffering in this order of responsibility but, if there is, it will be transformational as opposed to self-tormenting -- which...

I am searching for a way out of such tormenting questions as: Who am I? What is the purpose of life? How do I best serve others? This last question matters most as whatever I have done so far has literally turned to dust, and I am in the midst of unbearable pain, shamed and ridiculed by others. I pray for divine guidance for what I am supposed to learn from these events. I try to remain presen...

Given my personal circumstances, I'm not able to understand how your statement, "it's very hard work to make something (so big) out of what really amounts to nothing," fits for me. Untimely death and other hardships that have impacted my family have resulted in much pain... not to mention the unbelievable hurt of being punished for someone else's actions. How does all of that "really amount to...

In moments of challenge, the tendency is to immediately resist the situation because of the pain it seems to bring with it. But, the truth of the moment is very different from this habitual perception and mechanical reaction to it. No moment, in and of itself, is the cause of our pain. What punishes us is what we want (from it), and not what it seems to deny us. Which comes first? The dark s...

Classroom Talk: 8/10/2003 - The only one who never loses sight of his True Nature, who never becomes a captive of negative states, is that fortunate person who never forgets this one great truth: Even though nothing we look upon in this world belongs to us, everything about our life is a gift.

ED: Hello. I'm Dr. Ellen Dickstein. Welcome to a fireside chat with best-selling inner life author, Guy Finley. Today I thought we would talk about a topic that you actually gave a whole series of talks on, and something that you mention quite often: the "turning point." Now, most people when they use the expression "turning point," think of a unique moment in time when maybe they had to make...

I have failed in all areas. I have nothing to give to the world. I am waiting for my faith, and to remember God's grace. I want to live without fear, insecurities, pain, shame, or ridicule. Do I have it in me to end the torment of my existence now? I am not strong enough to keep the torment at bay, and therefore seek your help.

Allowing anything to eat at you, by consenting to sit down with it at the "table of torment," serves nothing... save the pleasure of some dark and "hungry" part of you that lives only to consume negative energy.

The Living Light never shows us anything in ourselves that it hasn't already started to change for us.

Fear is the imagined need of some tomorrow become the seed of a torment this day.