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Here's the real reason why talking to ourselves about whatever is considered to be the cause of that "conversation" in our head is so exhausting: it's very hard work to make something (so big) out of what really amounts to nothing...
View ContentThe reason that we do what we do is because we are looking for the truth of ourselves. It doesn't matter - wanting to learn how to cook, wanting to start a new business, looking for a new relationship, wanting to learn how to write a book, surf, sumo wrestling - whatever it may be. And as many people as there are hearing or reading this... wherever you are, all over the world and in this room...
View ContentIn this short talk, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about how creation is not complete without our awareness of it. When we surrender the fearful self that never stops pursuing what it wants, what we receive in exchange is this higher awareness of being an essential part of creation. Then we are participating in something timeless, where fear, hatred, anxiety, and doubt cannot dwell.
View Content Download AudioOur unconscious conditioning goes before us every moment, acting as the unseen judge, jury, and executioner of each, and every moment of our life...
View ContentWe cannot run away from what we don’t want to see in ourselves, any more than a mirror can escape whatever is reflected in it. And yet, to SEE the truth of this fact...
View ContentThe physicist sees, and feels the intangible matrix of timeless, interwoven mathematical principles, a celestial tapestry spun upon an invisible loom...
View ContentThe fear of pain, the pain of fear: See how they feed one another... And (your) liberation draws near. ..
View ContentIn this short talk, self-realization author Guy Finley talks about how we have been deceived into thinking that we need to control everything in our lives in order to meet the world's standards of success and happiness. But as Guy explains, if we feel a painful compulsion to control everything we see outside of us, then it is fear that is in control.
View Content Download AudioRealize the amount of pain in your impatience, and in that revelation you will also know the extent to which you’re deceived about who you are, and the true purpose of (your) life...
View ContentJust as rain from the heavens starts with a single drop, so begins the journey to reclaim our right to be fearless... with the first step.
View ContentWe cannot know the depth and breadth of our highest, heavenly possibilities as long as we fear to explore, realize, and release all that keeps us earthbound.
View ContentJust as shadows prove the light that creates them, so is it true that to hunger or thirst proves the existence of what is created to answer that need; it is equally so when it comes to our hunger and thirst for the love of the Divine...
View ContentThere can be no fearful thought of any time to come -- let alone the anxious struggle to control -- or otherwise avoid it -- without resisting a moment that has no existence outside of how we’ve unconsciously imagined it!
View ContentAs a race of beings, we have become completely complicit in the pain that visits us. A thought from the past pops up and punishes us. Someone says something we don't like, and we try to punish them and feel the pain of the blame that we place on them. There is an endless series of relationships with a part of our own nature that has convinced us that the pain is produced by a condition outside of us...
View ContentNothing in the universe can make you relive some painful moment from your past as long as you choose to live in the self-renewing awareness...
View ContentOur consistent wish and work to meet, see through, and transcend any old fear of ours... ensures we will be given the new strength we need to do so.
View ContentIn this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley dives deeply into the concepts of "joy and happiness," noting the important distinction between imagined "joy" and the kind of joy that is the natural outcome of life's authentic wholeness. Imagined joy turns into painful resistance to anything that interferes with the image. Seeing this with more and more clarity is freedom from the stressful compulsion to pursue an imagined happiness.
View Content Download AudioThe more we look for ways to protect ourselves from fear, the greater grows our inability to see its increasing authority over our heart, mind, and soul...
View ContentWe can't really know love's power to free us, to fulfill us through our relationships, until we gain some totally new ideas about how to see, and then interact with others. Not just a rehash of our past failed viewpoint; we know that path is powerless to heal the aching heart. An altogether higher view is called for. We need to be able to see others through the "eyes" of a completely fresh understanding...
View ContentThere is no struggle in seeing; and certainly, whatever is being observed does not resist being seen...
View ContentInner freedom is as endless as is our wish to explore and realize its infinite possibilities.
View ContentIn this answer to a viewer's question, self-realization author Guy Finley talks about some of the opposition we will encounter -- within ourselves -- when we realize the need to let go of painful ideas we have long held about what it means to be "in control" of our lives.
View Content Download AudioWhat goes with us everywhere, that never makes a sound, but that without its company... we wouldn’t be able to hear anything? Silence!
View ContentNever fight with life; your struggle is not with what opposes you, but rather with what you have yet to understand about the opposing forces that live within you...
View ContentQuestion: It does indeed appear that something conspires to help me discover the way out of useless suffering. It is encouraging whenever a sudden awareness sheds new light on old pain. Right then and there, I can't know where I'll arrive at any imagined destiny, but then there's a knowing that I don't really need to live beyond these present small glimpses. I fancy that freedom is stashed all around me...
View ContentCan you see that there is something inside of you that immediately begins to tell you what any event means and what you need to do about it? You've been with this storyteller for so long, it's an unquestioned presence in your mind. It's just part of what we call our life. But this storyteller isn't really alive. Its story is to ensure the continuation of its life...
View ContentThere can be no "life after death" without realizing an order of Love that has no fear of dying...
View ContentIn this answer to an online viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that, rather than being afraid of our perceived limitations, we can actually use them to discover fearless aspects of our consciousness that we didn't know were there before.
View Content Download AudioThere is no thought, no memory from the past that of itself can cause us pain; the only reason we suffer for their appearance is because we don't want to relive the unwanted experience they remind us of...
View ContentNo moment can be different than it is. We can't change a moment that comes. The moment (and its content) appears from within us, before us, and we are relegated to being able to see it but not to change the very thing that we're looking at as it appears. So that whether we like it or not actually means nothing.
View ContentAll of life is present, at once, in a timeless awareness; each and every creation -- from a molecule of water, to the river that carries it to the sea -- is connected in a seamless circulation of planetary and celestial energies...
View ContentThe witness to experience is not bound by it, any more than a clear sky can be captured by a passing cloud, or a sound can seize the ear that hears it.
View ContentThe light of true self-knowledge grows out of our willingness to see, and then enter into whatever we’ve yet to understand about ourselves; it’s a grand mystery...
View ContentIn this short talk, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about the necessity of seeing truths about ourselves that the majority of us does not want to see. The "self" that fights with life, in order to get what it wants, does not want to fade away. It exists to desire, then expire its desires, and then imagine new desires. See the pain inherent in trying to keep that circle of "self" in place...
View Content Download AudioPraying to change the world around us is pointless until we see that the world around us is the way it is because we are the way we are...
View ContentQuestion: I live as if things are coming to an end. No matter what good thing is happening in my life, I am looking at it as just temporary. This is horrible for me, and I don't want to miss out on any more of life! Answer: If you want to be free, I'm going to explain "how." Why would any of us want to meet every moment of our life with a certainty that, "Nothing's going to work out...
View ContentQuestion: I am troubled by something I read in The Secret of Letting Go. I do understand and agree with your point that a fancy job title accompanied your life seems to lack meaning. However, the "rules" of this modern era state that being passive and letting life come to you leaves you vulnerable to missing out on the opportunities. In other words, being proactive prevails while passivity...
View ContentOnce we realize that living within the limits of the known is the same as the limitation of our spiritual possibilities, there is no recourse other than to depart the safety of all that we have been...
View ContentThe fear of any imagined time to come... IS the time of fear.
View ContentSelf-realization author Guy Finley talks about how the unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat. The unattended mind always goes into thought, hoping to reconcile the disturbance that thought created in the first place. Observing this dynamic as it takes place in the mind is how we rise above everything that has defeated us in the past.
View Content Download AudioAny time you are sitting at home and a thought comes and says, "What about this? What about them? What's going to happen if this?" you are burdened. You are carrying on your back, in your heart, in your mind, the weight of a set of thoughts and feelings you believe have the right to ride you to where they tell you to go... as if you were saddled by a donkey!
View ContentThe less we try to “teach” others about their shortcomings, the more insight we gain into our own.
View ContentThe last thing that comes to mind, given there’s so many “things” still to find... is a question whose answer takes a lifetime to ponder, let alone refine: What if there’s a Life that can’t be defined? A greatness beyond name -- or claim, let alone imagined as “mine.”
View ContentGravity is a form of emptiness: it is a celestial law that represents a ceaseless longing answered only by what it captures, and draws into itself...
View ContentNever run from any moment you don’t understand, as whatever your conflict may be in that moment with life... (it) will be waiting for you when, and wherever you come to a stop.
View ContentOur awareness of anything pure, innocent, and beautiful -- any moment realized as timeless and true -- is the temporary experience of the abiding union between heaven and earth and, in that same instant, to know ourselves as its witness.
View Content"Letting go" author Guy Finley explains that when a question includes the heart, the mind, and the body together, then the question is no longer in thought. It's no longer just a temporary emotion or sensation. It belongs to another order of being that is connected to a higher order of intelligence that will resolve the question.
View Content Download AudioA great spiritual mystery: self-liberation is either found within what we’re given to see, or not at all...
View ContentWe live in a stream of a living light that never stops pouring down upon us, even as it ceaselessly wells up from within us. The first part of this opening comment is obvious: sunlight streams down moment to moment upon our earth, vitalizing and nourishing all that it touches. And while this order of light allows us to see all the marvelous forms and colors that our physical eyes behold...
View ContentSomewhere between either/or just beyond “yes and no”... There is a door. Seek it; find it! Dare to abide there long enough and it opens all by itself... Behold! A whole new world...
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