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

84 of 893 Items

per page
Set Ascending Direction
  1. Stop Looking For Right Answers in the Wrong Places
    Short Talk

    Stop Looking For Right Answers in the Wrong Places

    • Posted: 06/24/22
    • Meeting: 06/08/22
    • Time: 00:01:58
    • 5 Views
    • Comments (0)

    In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains that a genuine resolution to psychological pain will never be found within the very system that produces the pain in the first place. Awareness of this fact is the answer that you're looking for.

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  2. How Do We Stop Fighting?
    Short Talk

    How Do We Stop Fighting?

    • Posted: 06/17/22
    • Meeting: 06/01/22
    • Time: 00:04:45
    • 6 Views
    • Comments (0)

    In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about the painful deception of fighting for one side in a conflict because we feel threatened by the other side. Nothing will ever change in any meaningful way by struggling on the level of the opposites. It is useless to try to change a world that is not interested in knowing what is useful to the soul.

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  3. Never Believe In Discouragement
    Short Talk

    Never Believe In Discouragement

    • Posted: 06/10/22
    • Meeting: 11/03/21
    • Time: 00:02:56
    • 8 Views
    • Comments (0)

    In this short talk, "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that -- far from being discouraged about what may or may not be happening in our lives -- we are intended to participate in the ceaseless revelation of an ever-present and benevolent order of being within us that never stops expressing itself.

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  4. Strike at the Root of Negativity
    Short Talk

    Strike at the Root of Negativity

    • Posted: 05/26/22
    • Meeting: 05/04/22
    • Time: 00:03:46
    • 5 Views
    • Comments (0)

    In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley talks about the imperative to observe the nature of negativity itself instead of complying with whatever the negativity is telling you to do.

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  5. Be the One Who Doesn't Shut Down
    Short Talk

    Be the One Who Doesn't Shut Down

    • Posted: 05/19/22
    • Meeting: 05/04/22
    • Time: 00:02:48
    • 6 Views
    • Comments (0)

    In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about how there is no chance for anything to change for the better as long as we shut our eyes to events that run counter to what our minds say should be happening.

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  6. Stop Being Afraid of Unwanted Moments
    Short Talk

    Stop Being Afraid of Unwanted Moments

    • Posted: 05/12/22
    • Meeting: 04/27/22
    • Time: 00:04:17
    • 10 Views
    • Comments (0)

    In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley talks about staying awake and present to the pressure we feel to avoid unwanted events. There is nothing to fear because the awareness itself will put ourselves and everything else in its proper place.

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  7. Use Moments of Crisis for Self Discovery
    Short Talk

    Use Moments of Crisis for Self Discovery

    • Posted: 05/06/22
    • Meeting: 03/13/22
    • Time: 00:04:12
    • 5 Views
    • Comments (0)

    Instead of wishing that difficult moments would just go away, bestselling "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about the possibility of meeting those moments of crisis for the purpose of discovering something new about yourself.

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  8. Work in Service to the World
    Short Talk

    Work in Service to the World

    • Posted: 04/22/22
    • Meeting: 04/03/22
    • Time: 00:02:29
    • 3 Views
    • Comments (0)

    In this short talk, bestselling "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that to work in service to this world is to understand that every moment is bigger than our individual self-concerns.

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  9. The Power To Overcome Any Addiction
    Short Talk

    The Power To Overcome Any Addiction

    • Posted: 04/15/22
    • Meeting: 03/27/22
    • Time: 00:03:04
    • 18 Views
    • Comments (0)

    In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about how self-knowledge is the power needed to triumph over any kind of chronic addiction, physical or psychological.

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  10. Find the Source of Freedom
    Short Talk

    Find the Source of Freedom

    • Posted: 04/08/22
    • Meeting: 03/23/22
    • Time: 00:03:38
    • 3 Views
    • Comments (0)

    In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley talks about owning your own attention for the purpose of observing the painful tendency to blame everything outside of yourself as the cause of whatever is disturbing you.

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  11. How to End the War Within Yourself
    Short Talk

    How to End the War Within Yourself

    • Posted: 03/31/22
    • Meeting: 03/16/22
    • Time: 00:04:16
    • 3 Views
    • Comments (0)

    In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that you would not clash with life -- nor with yourself -- if you did not first cling to imagined ideas about peace and prosperity. Freedom from this conflict begins with witnessing the unfolding of this dynamic within yourself.

    Successfully added to My Favorites! Add to Favorites
  12. Uncover the Root of Narcissism
    Short Talk

    Uncover the Root of Narcissism

    • Posted: 03/24/22
    • Meeting: 02/16/22
    • Time: 00:01:19
    • 7 Views
    • Comments (0)

    In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains that every sleeping human being is a narcissist, seeing nothing but him or herself in everything that happens, and then not wanting anything that challenges the glorified self-image. Freedom comes from the seeing of these facts.

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

84 of 893 Items

per page
Set Ascending Direction