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.

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  1. Keeping the Company of the Divine
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    Keeping the Company of the Divine

    • Posted: 03/26/19
    • Meeting: 03/10/19
    • Time: 00:06:24
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    If we want to have a new relationship with life, we cannot continue to keep the company of chaotic thoughts that only serve to ensure that we remain the same person that we have always been. The Divine will come into our lives if it is invited, but we have to provide the space.
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  2. Stop Letting People Push Your Buttons and Be Free
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    Stop Letting People Push Your Buttons and Be Free - Oregon Books and Games Store Talk

    • Posted: 03/07/19
    • Meeting: 02/10/19
    • Time: 00:56:50
    • 20 Views
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    Classroom Talk: 3/1/2019 - The only way to defeat those dark states within you that forever bully you around is to realize that in the Higher Reality of your True Nature there is no rule that says push must lead to shove!

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  3. Freedom Isn't Conditional
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    Freedom Isn't Conditional

    • Posted: 02/26/19
    • Meeting: 02/10/19
    • Time: 00:01:23
    • 6 Views
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    True spiritual work is not just about exploring consciousness when we are feeling good, or when we are experiencing something that pleases us. Real freedom involves the willingness to look at ourselves no matter what each moment gives us to see.
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  4. The Joy of Self-Knowledge
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    The Joy of Self-Knowledge

    • Posted: 02/11/19
    • Meeting: 01/27/19
    • Time: 00:02:03
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    The thrill of the pleasures that we seek in order to alleviate a pain or avoid emptiness never lasts. The only kind of true joy that stands the test of time and lasts for eternity is the joy of setting out on the path to discover the truth that sets us free.
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  5. How Do I Know What’s Good for Me?
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    How Do I Know What’s Good for Me?

    • Posted: 02/08/19
    • Meeting: 11/11/18
    • Time: 00:04:08
    • 6 Views
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    In a world where everything's upside-down, where what seems to be "good" really isn't, you must learn to discern what's true from what's false. The more you try to keep everything in place, the more it falls apart, and you ending up running right past your own life.
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  6. How to Use Your Impatience to Know Celestial Patience
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    How to Use Your Impatience to Know Celestial Patience

    • Posted: 02/07/19
    • Meeting: 01/20/19
    • Time: 00:05:03
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    You probably have heard about the idea of "the straw that breaks the camel's back." Whether we are aware of it or not, we all fear how we are going react when we reach that point. This is where patience comes in... not patience with something outside of ourselves, but patience in watching and bearing the strong reaction that feels like it needs to be expressed.
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  7. In Your Patience Possess Ye Your Soul
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    In Your Patience Possess Ye Your Soul

    • Posted: 02/07/19
    • Meeting: 09/05/18
    • Time: 00:02:34
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    Patience is one of the most important virtues in your spiritual work. Patience teaches you that nothing in the universe is set against you, but rather is there for you. When you can learn to suffer yourself and your reactions, then you'll begin to realize that there is nothing to fear. If you wish to have a whole heart, a true mind, and a real relationship with life and others, you must see the necessity of true patience.
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  8. Use Every Argument to Awaken a New Way to Love One Another
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    Use Every Argument to Awaken a New Way to Love One Another

    • Posted: 02/04/19
    • Meeting: 05/23/18
    • Time: 00:03:18
    • 5 Views
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    When someone says something that is unkind or cruel, it's because they have perceived something in you that has produced a reaction in them. They are helpless to act otherwise, which stirs a similar reaction and helplessness within you as well. If you will meet those moments with the wish to see your own unconscious reaction instead of blame the other person for theirs, a new possibility arises.
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  9. A famous artist had a hit record long ago containing the lyrics, "I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter, and make believe it came from you." The next moment you find yourself with a stronger connection to what it really means to be a human be
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    An Exercise to Remind You of Your Life Purpose

    • Posted: 02/03/19
    • Meeting: 01/20/19
    • Time: 00:02:52
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    A famous artist had a hit record long ago containing the lyrics, "I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter, and make believe it came from you." The next moment you find yourself with a stronger connection to what it really means to be a human being, sit down and write yourself a letter about what you think it means to be a real human being.
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  10. Catch and Drop the Compulsion to Talk Endlessly About Nothing
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    Catch and Drop the Compulsion to Talk Endlessly About Nothing

    • Posted: 01/31/19
    • Meeting: 01/02/19
    • Time: 00:02:47
    • 6 Views
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    How much time and energy and breath would we save if we were aware of the part of us that wants to speak before it starts speaking? Much of the talking that we do is brought about by an unconscious nature that compels us to speak so that it can experience more of itself. By observing ourselves we can catch the anxious part of us that demands we say something in order to relieve the pressure.
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  11. Love Opened My Eyes
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    Love Opened My Eyes

    • Posted: 01/29/19
    • Meeting: 12/30/18
    • Time: 00:02:47
    • 5 Views
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    Anything that currently darkens our lives can be met with higher understanding within us, so that it is properly placed into the greater order of things and becomes a part of the eternal "I Am." That means that every form, every encounter, every moment, no matter what it is, has the capacity to cleanse a human being of the impurity that wants to name the moment as being corrupt or wrong.
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  12. The Proper Use of Ambition
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    The Proper Use of Ambition

    • Posted: 01/15/19
    • Meeting: 12/09/18
    • Time: 00:02:15
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    Wanting to be free of anything because it troubles you is a form of ambition, because the assumption behind the ambition is that I have the power and the authority to shut this down. And you have neither power nor authority - what you have is a small gift from God that will allow you to see what ambition does to tear apart your soul.
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