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. The Perfection of Love
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    The Perfection of Love

    • Posted: 03/05/13
    • Meeting: 02/24/13
    • Time: 00:03:00
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    The ultimate consumption of the soul by love is the purpose of a person's aspiring work -- that there would no longer be an individual there feeling this love, it would just be perfect love, perfect gratitude, perfect appreciation.
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  2. Free Yourself From False Morality
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    Free Yourself From False Morality

    • Posted: 02/19/13
    • Meeting: 02/03/13
    • Time: 00:03:00
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    Real life -- to whatever degree it's given to the individual through a gift of spirit -- is to be aware of all the corresponding worlds one is a part of and which is a part of them.
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  3. Give Yourself to a Goodness That Never Stops Growing
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    Give Yourself to a Goodness That Never Stops Growing

    • Posted: 01/22/13
    • Meeting: 01/04/13
    • Time: 00:02:00
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    As you work, your moments of attention lead to revelations that begin to coalesce certain energies within you, which then become the ground for the next revelation.
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  4. Exercise: Prayer for Watchfulness
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    Exercise: Prayer for Watchfulness

    • Posted: 01/09/13
    • Meeting: 01/06/13
    • Time: 00:03:00
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    Exercise given after Guy Finley's 1/6/13 talk 'Be the One Prayer That is Always Answered.' When you feel the onset of any painful pattern, ask without thinking about it -- what am I filling myself with? What is coming into me that I'm identified with? Then work to become actively passive to it. Make the prayer for watchfulness. By being watchful of what you are filling yourself with -- instead...
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  5. Exercise: Walk Out of the Wilderness
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    Exercise: Walk Out of the Wilderness

    • Posted: 01/02/13
    • Meeting: 12/30/12
    • Time: 00:04:00
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    Exercise given after Guy Finley's 12/30/12 talk 'Walk Out of the Wilderness of the Illusory Self.' Invite the wish to stay awake. Each time you come back to yourself, note that you were in the wilderness. Then strengthen your wish with the prayer, 'Father, stay with me.'...
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  6. Move with the Speed of Your Spiritual Seed
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    Move with the Speed of Your Spiritual Seed

    • Posted: 12/29/12
    • Meeting: 12/23/12
    • Time: 00:02:00
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    As with all things of a spiritual nature, there are stages to an aspirant's development, and your job is to agree to the consistent exposure to what develops the seed of a higher life within you.
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  7. Learn to Stand Outside the War Within You
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    Learn to Stand Outside the War Within You

    • Posted: 12/18/12
    • Meeting: 12/07/12
    • Time: 00:07:00
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    As you start to do interior work you begin to see that a war is being waged within you, one that you have been complicit with even as it rends you. Now a proper battle of self-discovery begins, and while it's very difficult to be in the throes of this new level of combat, you must stay in it long enough to learn what it means to be a witness of the war versus getting caught up in it.
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  8. Open Yourself to Life's Constant Lessons
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    Open Yourself to Life's Constant Lessons

    • Posted: 12/06/12
    • Meeting: 11/21/12
    • Time: 00:02:00
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    To resist any unwanted moment is to deny the possibility of being transformed by it. Work instead to be open to anything life brings you so that in your awareness of it, something new can be born within you.
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  9. In the Pursuit of a More Perfect Prayer
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    In the Pursuit of a More Perfect Prayer

    • Posted: 12/04/12
    • Meeting: 11/09/12
    • Time: 00:06:00
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    Topics covered: missing the mark as a human, you are not going to save yourself, the importance of confessing yourself to yourself, you don't know what to do with not wanting to be you, what do you really want, false pride, it isn't God that benefits from your prayers...
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  10. Developing a Taste for Soul Food
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    Developing a Taste for Soul Food

    • Posted: 11/27/12
    • Meeting: 10/26/12
    • Time: 00:09:00
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    The Divine never stops trying to tell us that there is something so much more important to do with our lives than what we're doing with them, and that the reason for our unhappiness is because we haven't learned the lesson yet -- that our present nature is what is producing the unhappiness.
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  11. Be Whole
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    Be Whole

    • Posted: 11/26/12
    • Meeting: 10/19/12
    • Time: 00:07:00
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    Topics covered: the importance of coming to class and doing this work, persistence, persisting on the path, the exercise to set an intention...
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  12. Insights Into the Self That Never Passes
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    Insights Into the Self That Never Passes

    • Posted: 10/24/12
    • Meeting: 10/17/12
    • Time: 00:06:00
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    Topics covered: discontentment, hating life, hate my life, timeless celestial beings, personality, essence...
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