Short Talks

These insightful and stirring audio clips, recorded live during Guy Finley's ongoing classes, deliver quick nuggets of condensed wisdom. Audio blog-style talks on a variety of topics are 3-25 minutes in length. Many clips are part of Guy’s ongoing Podcast series. Subscribe to Guy's free Podcast and be informed as new ones are posted.

Subscribe to Guy's Podcast

Short Talks

View as Grid List

180 of 894 Items

per page
Set Ascending Direction
  1. Everything is Already in Perfect Order
    Short Talk

    Everything is Already in Perfect Order

    • Posted: 11/01/19
    • Meeting: 10/27/19
    • Time: 00:03:16
    • 2 Views
    • Comments (0)

    We don't typically have much awareness of what is timeless because we are usually the prisoner of a mind that is seeking to become something in time. However, it is possible to see -- without taking thought -- that everything eternal is already in perfect harmony. This means that we can stop struggling uselessly to put the Universe back into order.

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  2. The Beauty of Belonging to a Greater Being
    Short Talk

    The Beauty of Belonging to a Greater Being

    • Posted: 10/21/19
    • Meeting: 10/13/19
    • Time: 00:03:52
    • 12 Views
    • Comments (0)

    The value of finding a true spiritual work group is that the whole body of the group -- together -- can help individuals reconnect with inner truths that they have lost contact with. There is a unity that exists in the consciousness of true spiritual aspirants who understand that the experience of one... is the experience of all.

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  3. Stop Talking in Your "Sleep"
    Short Talk

    Stop Talking in Your "Sleep"

    • Posted: 10/19/19
    • Meeting: 09/22/19
    • Time: 00:03:38
    • 6 Views
    • Comments (0)

    Whenever there is an unconscious inner dialog going on in our heads, we are actually looking in a mirror that we don't know is a mirror. And what we see in our mind's eye talks to us about what we must make ourselves into so that we might finally find rest and be at peace. Freedom from the dark inner dialog begins by seeing that the "self" that is talking to us only exists as long as we...

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  4. Here's Why You Talk to Yourself
    Short Talk

    Here's Why You Talk to Yourself

    • Posted: 10/18/19
    • Meeting: 09/15/19
    • Time: 00:02:11
    • 2 Views
    • Comments (0)

    Real reactions are wordless, soundless, and even without familiar content. They are just the expression of something timeless touching something in time. The mind talks to itself in order to define these reactions for its own purposes, using its own past content in a vain attempt to reconcile the moment. The true reconciliation of any reaction is built into the very moment of the appearance of it...

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  5. Let the Storms of Life Change You
    Short Talk

    Let the Storms of Life Change You

    • Posted: 10/02/19
    • Meeting: 09/29/19
    • Time: 00:02:02
    • 6 Views
    • Comments (0)

    What we call "talking to ourselves" is really the action of a consciousness that produces negative assumptions, and then plots how to bring an end to the very storm that it is seeding. We can't stop that level of mind from creating storms, but seeing them changes our relationship to that consciousness, and then we don't unconsciously reseed them. They appear and then disappear. Then you are...

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  6. Catch and See Through the Lie of Discouragement
    Short Talk

    Catch and See Through the Lie of Discouragement

    • Posted: 09/28/19
    • Meeting: 08/04/19
    • Time: 00:04:25
    • 17 Views
    • Comments (0)

    Every human being has a longing in their heart to transcend their present level of understanding and reach new possibilities. In order to do that, we are all going to meet the giant of discouragement. We become discouraged when we see ourselves not live up to some idea or image we have when a moment comes along and we can't succeed as imagined in that moment...

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  7. The Sum is Greater than the Parts
    Short Talk

    The Sum is Greater than the Parts

    • Posted: 09/13/19
    • Meeting: 08/18/19
    • Time: 00:02:08
    • 9 Views
    • Comments (2)

    To make bread you have to bring a lot of different ingredients together. Each ingredient by itself, or even mixed together, does not make bread. The individual ingredients must have heat applied and be married together in order to create something altogether new that is more than the sum of the individual parts.

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  8. Liberate Yourself from the Fear of Yourself
    Short Talk

    Liberate Yourself from the Fear of Yourself

    • Posted: 08/31/19
    • Meeting: 08/18/19
    • Time: 00:03:53
    • 4 Views
    • Comments (0)

    Human beings walk around in a kind of self-made suffering that is the expression of something in us that is afraid of seeing ourselves as we are. We've come to think that avoiding a unwanted fact about ourselves is the same as escaping the effects. Our lives should be a ceaseless realization of where we miss the mark, because that is the only way to transcend the idea that...

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  9. When You Enable Others You Breed Conflict in Yourself
    Short Talk

    When You Enable Others You Breed Conflict in Yourself

    • Posted: 08/29/19
    • Meeting: 07/28/19
    • Time: 00:02:03
    • 6 Views
    • Comments (1)

    There is a part of us that wants people to be dependent on us. But the part of us that creates dependency in others is the exact same same thing that creates fear and resentment in us when we imagine that the other person will not behave in the way we want.

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  10. Don’t Be Captured by Dark Forces
    Short Talk

    Don’t Be Captured by Dark Forces

    • Posted: 08/26/19
    • Meeting: 07/28/19
    • Time: 00:03:07
    • 9 Views
    • Comments (0)

    Guy explains that everything that is created wants to live and will fight to exist, including fear and negativity. If you ever want to have a spiritual healing, you need to understand these types of forces that will do everything they can to ensure their own continuation, and essentially prevent a human being from ever finding freedom.

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  11. Pop Quiz! Where Is Your Treasure?
    Short Talk

    Pop Quiz! Where Is Your Treasure?

    • Posted: 08/05/19
    • Meeting: 04/28/19
    • Time: 00:04:29
    • 10 Views
    • Comments (0)

    Which would you rather have: a treasure room that is filled with an old potato, a worn-out shoe, and a dented can of Spam... or a room filled with precious stones, rare silks, and a chest of gold? It seems like a silly question, and yet... why do you choose a mind and heart filled with dark thoughts, anxiety, anger, and self-doubt when you could have a mind and heart...

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  12. The Faith of a Mustard Seed
    Short Talk

    The Faith of a Mustard Seed

    • Posted: 07/31/19
    • Meeting: 12/23/18
    • Time: 00:03:44
    • 5 Views
    • Comments (0)

    "Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, lies the seed that, with the sun's love, in the spring becomes the rose." ~ "The Rose" by Bette Midler. When you find yourself in circumstances that seem difficult and dark, give your attention to the remembrance of the greater possibility that lies within the moment. In the light of that awareness, what has been concealed is revealed...

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
View as Grid List

180 of 894 Items

per page
Set Ascending Direction