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. An Unbelievable Loss Can Also Be An Unbelievable Gain
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    An Unbelievable Loss Can Also Be An Unbelievable Gain

    • Posted: 08/17/23
    • Meeting: 06/21/23
    • Time: 00:05:54
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    In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about how grief over the death of a loved one will complete itself and become something else if we will not resist the experience and allow it to be what it is.

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  2. You Can't Know What You Need to Know Before It's Time
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    You Can't Know What You Need to Know Before It's Time

    • Posted: 08/01/23
    • Meeting: 06/07/23
    • Time: 00:03:03
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    In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains that nothing in creation flowers before its time. Our task to continue to carry with us the wish to understand, and what we wish to know will be given to us at the right time.

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  3. You Are in a World of Sleeping Human Beings
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    You Are in a World of Sleeping Human Beings

    • Posted: 07/26/23
    • Meeting: 06/04/23
    • Time: 00:02:56
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    In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that what we don't like about other people is what we want from them. If we didn't want something, then there would be no problem with another person's bad behavior. The task is to see that we have lived unconsciously from a nature that rejects anything that doesn't meet its approval.

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  4. Who Am I? What's My Purpose? What's the Plan?
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    Who Am I? What's My Purpose? What's the Plan?

    • Posted: 07/20/23
    • Meeting: 05/31/23
    • Time: 00:03:27
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    In this short talk, self-realization author Guy Finley talks about our capacity to discern the difference between mechanical thought that leads to self-compromise, and the kind of natural, intelligent intuition that will not harm itself or others.

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  5. How Can I Clearly Hear the Divine?
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    How Can I Clearly Hear the Divine?

    • Posted: 07/12/23
    • Meeting: 05/28/23
    • Time: 00:03:29
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    In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about how our lives are reorganized when we start to see that our own will is in conflict with Life's Will. The Divine knows what we need before we know it. When we see that with more clarity, then that observation will organize our mind in such a way that we will begin to recognize what the Divine is revealing to us in each moment.

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  6. You Already Have Everything You Need
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    You Already Have Everything You Need

    • Posted: 07/07/23
    • Meeting: 05/17/23
    • Time: 00:04:40
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    In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley explains how our minds call upon the assistance anxious and fearful thoughts in order to save us from anxiety and fear. Seeing this contradiction gradually brings an end to our dependence upon thought to lead us to freedom from these negative states.

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  7. How to Break Free from Any Addiction
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    How to Break Free from Any Addiction

    • Posted: 06/30/23
    • Meeting: 05/14/23
    • Time: 00:02:10
    • 39 Views
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    In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that liberation from any addiction begins with seeing the dual nature of the divided mind that claims to not want the pain of the addiction, while at the same time being attracted to the sensations that come with getting the next fix.

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  8. Real Life is Unscripted
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    Real Life is Unscripted

    • Posted: 06/15/23
    • Meeting: 05/03/23
    • Time: 00:05:31
    • 10 Views
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    In this answer to a viewer's question, self-realization author Guy Finley explains that we presently live from a part of ourselves that comes into moments fully conditioned and convinced that the moment should unfold according to the script that it has written.

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  9. Start Participating in the Purpose of Life
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    Start Participating in the Purpose of Life

    • Posted: 06/06/23
    • Meeting: 04/30/23
    • Time: 00:03:41
    • 6 Views
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    In this short talk, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about how creation is not complete without our awareness of it. When we surrender the fearful self that never stops pursuing what it wants, what we receive in exchange is this higher awareness of being an essential part of creation. Then we are participating in something timeless, where fear, hatred, anxiety, and doubt cannot dwell.

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  10. End the Frustration of Trying to Control Everything
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    End the Frustration of Trying to Control Everything

    • Posted: 05/30/23
    • Meeting: 04/26/23
    • Time: 00:03:22
    • 12 Views
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    In this short talk, self-realization author Guy Finley talks about how we have been deceived into thinking that we need to control everything in our lives in order to meet the world's standards of success and happiness. But as Guy explains, if we feel a painful compulsion to control everything we see outside of us, then it is fear that is in control.

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  11. Why Can't I Find Happiness?
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    Why Can't I Find Happiness?

    • Posted: 05/18/23
    • Meeting: 04/23/23
    • Time: 00:03:43
    • 6 Views
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    In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley dives deeply into the concepts of "joy and happiness," noting the important distinction between imagined "joy" and the kind of joy that is the natural outcome of life's authentic wholeness. Imagined joy turns into painful resistance to anything that interferes with the image. Seeing this with more and more clarity is freedom from the stressful compulsion to pursue an imagined happiness.

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  12. How Do I Let Go of Trying to Control Everything?
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    How Do I Let Go of Trying to Control Everything?

    • Posted: 05/11/23
    • Meeting: 04/16/23
    • Time: 00:05:21
    • 10 Views
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    In this answer to a viewer's question, self-realization author Guy Finley talks about some of the opposition we will encounter -- within ourselves -- when we realize the need to let go of painful ideas we have long held about what it means to be "in control" of our lives.

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