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. Get Off the Bus to Nowhere: A New Year's Eve Bonfire Message
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    Get Off the Bus to Nowhere: A New Year's Eve Bonfire Message

    • Posted: 01/06/25
    • Meeting: 12/31/24
    • Time: 00:25:19
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    In this short talk given on New Year's Eve, Guy talks about the greatest mystery of this work, which is that the mind always wants to be in motion because it's trying to reconcile the disturbance from not being what I am, where I am, using thought in an attempt to reconcile the present disturbance with a future promise.

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  2. How Do I Know If I'm Hearing the Divine... Or Just My Own Mind?
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    How Do I Know If I'm Hearing the Divine... Or Just My Own Mind?

    • Posted: 11/02/24
    • Meeting: 08/13/23
    • Time: 00:06:27
    • 22 Views
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    If you are engaged in an interior dialogue with yourself, you are not listening to Divine guidance. In this short talk, Guy talks about keeping it simple. The higher answer to the pain of difficult moments is to see the consciousness that is responsible for the pain, not in struggling to change all of the exterior conditions that are blamed as the reason for the suffering.

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  3. You Can Change Yourself with New Understanding
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    You Can Change Yourself with New Understanding

    • Posted: 10/10/24
    • Meeting: 08/09/23
    • Time: 00:02:21
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    In this short talk, Guy explains that nothing outside of yourself is punishing you. What is punishing you is your own resistance to what it feels like when people are rude, crude, or unkind. You want to blame others for the pain that you are in. See the resistance. Be aware of the pain of resisting. Be aware of the pain of blaming. The more you can be aware of that pain, the more unwilling you will be to lend yourself over to the demand that others...

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  4. We Cannot Excuse Our Way into Peace of Mind
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    We Cannot Excuse Our Way into Peace of Mind

    • Posted: 09/12/24
    • Meeting: 09/12/24
    • Time: 00:11:00
    • 24 Views
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    We cannot excuse our way into peace of mind. It is impossible to excuse our way into having peace. If we let an excuse, or a justification, or an explanation become our guide in the moment we do something unkind, then we will never enter into this new level of being where the strength that we seek, and long to participate in, awaits us.

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  5. What Does it Look Like to Live an Awakened Life?
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    What Does it Look Like to Live an Awakened Life?

    • Posted: 02/02/24
    • Meeting: 08/09/23
    • Time: 00:04:23
    • 14 Views
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    In this short talk, bestselling "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about what it means to wake up from spiritual sleep, which does not include comparing ourselves to what the world says it means to live an awakened life.

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  6. We are Given Everything that We Need
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    We are Given Everything that We Need

    • Posted: 01/22/24
    • Meeting: 08/06/23
    • Time: 00:01:44
    • 9 Views
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    In this brief Q&A session, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley talks about bringing an end to the painful position of thinking that life owes us something, and what it would mean to have real gratitude.

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  7. Do What You Know is Right and True for You
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    Do What You Know is Right and True for You

    • Posted: 12/08/23
    • Meeting: 07/23/23
    • Time: 00:04:50
    • 12 Views
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    In this answer to a viewer's question, inner-life author Guy Finley talks about doing the right thing in our relationships with others, and how unconditional love does not mean unconditionally tolerating people who repeatedly refuse to see where they are hurting themselves and others.

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  8. The First Aim is to Remember Yourself
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    The First Aim is to Remember Yourself

    • Posted: 12/01/23
    • Meeting: 08/02/23
    • Time: 00:04:01
    • 7 Views
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    In this answer to a viewer's question during a live broadcast, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about how everything in our lives becomes rightly organized -- including the pursuit of goals -- if we will remember to put first things first.

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  9. I've Become Estranged From Someone Very Close To Me
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    I've Become Estranged From Someone Very Close To Me

    • Posted: 11/18/23
    • Meeting: 07/26/23
    • Time: 00:08:53
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    In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley provides some insights into how there can be resentment, antagonism, and hostility between two people who claim to love each other.

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  10. On the Other Side of the Resistance is the Flow
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    On the Other Side of the Resistance is the Flow

    • Posted: 11/02/23
    • Meeting: 07/19/23
    • Time: 00:04:44
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    In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley talks about the difference between observing a particular psychological condition -- such as feeling a lack of energy -- and resisting the condition.

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  11. This is What Unconscious Resistance Is
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    This is What Unconscious Resistance Is

    • Posted: 10/23/23
    • Meeting: 07/16/23
    • Time: 00:04:09
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    In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley shares some insights about staying present as the observer of fast and furious thoughts, as opposed to getting pulled down into their world.

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  12. You Can't Hide from What You Don't Want to See in Yourself
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    You Can't Hide from What You Don't Want to See in Yourself

    • Posted: 10/12/23
    • Meeting: 07/05/23
    • Time: 00:03:15
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    In this short talk, Guy explains that no matter how fast or far we may run, it is impossible to outdistance, let alone hide from what we don't want to see in ourselves.

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