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Enlightening articles by Guy Finley on a wide range of topics address practical life issues and deepen your spiritual understanding.
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Enlightening articles by Guy Finley on a wide range of topics address practical life issues and deepen your spiritual understanding.
Short but powerful quotes by Guy Finley will inspire you throughout your day.
Heartfelt inner-life questions from people around the world, and Guy’s enlightening answers, will shed light on your own issues.
Read Guy’s newest insights as he jots them down, spontaneous and uncensored.
Watch or listen to the specific talk we will all be discussing during this week’s Online Study Group meeting.
If you have a few minutes, and want a burst of enlightenment, watch or listen to these brief talks by Guy, filled with concentrated wisdom.
Hearing Guy interact with an interviewer is a delight. Listen as he makes deep spiritual principles easy to understand.
Be encouraged by hearing fellow members share their experiences and discoveries as they bring higher ideas into their daily lives.
The Life of Learning singers and instrumentalists perform beautiful music that will inspire and uplift you.
Join us for exclusive live broadcasts of select Guy Finley talks.
Start your day off right with a nugget of wisdom that can transform your experience with everything you do and everyone you meet.
Inner-life exercises and special writings deepen your understanding.
Longtime local members speak for 10 to 15 minutes on a special topic. Hear the explorations and discoveries of others on the inner journey.
Dive deep into a subject on your own! Work at your own pace with a series of talks by Guy on topics critical to your inner development.
Catch Guy Finley’s weekly message that focuses on spiritual and personal breakthroughs. This is updated weekly and is available in video, audio and text.
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You may begin working to become inwardly active in your life in a whole new way by working with the following silent prayers (from the "seven silent prayers" in The Lost Secrets of Prayer). These prayers can turn your life around and are designed to help you begin the highly individualized work of turning yourself around and to consciously reorient yourself to the world waiting within. The first of these silent prayers that turn your life around is:
Allow that uncomfortable silence to remain unfulfilled in that embarrassing moment.
When you're with another person, or in a group of people perhaps around a dinner table, have you ever noticed in those most unexpected moments when a sudden and uncomfortable silence pours in, you feel compelled to fill it with something? You think anything would feel better than that temporary nothing now demanding your attention and everyone else's attention. What is it within you that wants to rush and fill it in?
Among other unconscious and self-compromising ideas is the belief that unless you do it - or someone does - that the ensuing moment of unfilled space is somehow a formal indictment of social unsuitability! In other words, this silent spot, if left unanswered, will prove that you're not that clever, all-knowing conversationalist you hope others see you as being. Just for the record, everyone involved feels this same brief attack of personal panic.
But for us the lesson in moments such as these is to come awake to ourselves and therein to see that this perceived moment of terrible emptiness feels like a pain. In other words, pressure makes you jump in.
Don't jump in. Turn around instead. Learn to watch these moments and to use them to be in touch with the inner man, the inner woman, whose True Nature doesn't fear anything, let alone a moment of silence! Working to put yourself in touch with our own fearless, silent Self will change your relationship with yourself and life.
Give up the last word to someone else who's obviously glad to take it. This second silent prayer-in-action is connected to the idea of not defending yourself before false accusers. Only the painful and unconscious idea that not having the last word is the same as losing yourself can compel you to verbally fight with anyone in this way.
Choose instead to consciously drop this losing war of words and watch how inner and outer worlds part by themselves, leaving you, at last, with the choice of where you will live.
This special spiritual understanding, and the hard self-work it calls for, will help you in other areas of your inner life as well. In learning to turn and walk away from arguments in the outer world, you're slowly earning the spiritual strength you need to let go of those interior battles where any kind of fighting is secret futility. No one wins in a dark inner dialogue except for the darkness that drags you into such a struggle with yourself.
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