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. Here Is How the Light of Truth Sets You Free
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    Here Is How the Light of Truth Sets You Free

    • Posted: 12/06/15
    • Time: 00:46:59
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    Guy Finley explains how the winter solstice -- a time when we switch from increasing darkness to increasing light in the exterior world -- is representative of a moment-to-moment possibility in our interior world. It is only when we allow the transformative light of consciousness to come into the dark of ourselves that we are brought into a completely different order of understanding.

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  2. Fulfill Your Purpose in Life Through God's Great Plan for You
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    Fulfill Your Purpose in Life Through God's Great Plan for You

    • Posted: 11/29/13
    • Time: 00:42:35
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    Nothing true and timelessly Good has ever taken root and flowered in this world that wasn't first sown by love, cultivated through sacrifice, and watered with tears.

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  3. The First Step to Outgrowing Your Suffering
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    The First Step to Outgrowing Your Suffering

    • Posted: 03/24/11
    • Time: 00:26:57
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    Dissatisfaction is a psychological storm that every human being experiences. The truth is that dissatisfaction is actually a kind of growing pain, but to our present consciousness, it seems like a curse. We try to put an end to any feeling of dissatisfaction by reinventing ourselves so that we never have to feel that way again. Presently the nature that is dissatisfied sets us out to find som...

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  4. Be Eternally Refreshed
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    Be Eternally Refreshed

    • Posted: 02/03/10
    • Time: 00:30:24
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    Do you feel like something is missing from your life? We have all felt like that to one degree or another. Yes, there are days when things seem to go well, but if we are honest with ourselves we know that there are not many good days, and as a result there is an incessant searching that is always going on. What is it that we are searching for? The unseen, unanswered need that every human bein...

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  5. The Stillness In Movement
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    The Stillness In Movement

    • Posted: 03/04/11
    • Meeting: 02/04/11
    • Time: 00:28:00
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    In this short talk Guy expands on the Return and Remain, and the Four Directions attention exercises.
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  6. Return and Remain in the Ground of Being (Continuation of Exercise)
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    Return and Remain in the Ground of Being (Continuation of Exercise)

    • Posted: 01/13/11
    • Meeting: 12/31/10
    • Time: 00:30:00
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    In this short talk Guy gives us the keys to truly participate in what is always new and refreshed by working with the exercise 'Return and Remain.'...
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  7. The Attention Building Exercise
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    The Attention Building Exercise

    • Posted: 11/22/10
    • Meeting: 11/19/10
    • Time: 00:30:00
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    In this short talk Guy gives another exercise that expands on the work of the attention exercises to help bring us into a higher order of awareness.
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  8. Further Adventures in Attention
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    Further Adventures in Attention

    • Posted: 03/17/10
    • Meeting: 02/26/10
    • Time: 00:28:00
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    In this special talk on attention Guy explains that we must begin to separate ourselves from interior and exterior influences because presently, we are ruled by them. We are meant to be a co-creator in using what we've been given for its intended purpose. Revelation is integration and this is discovering the relationship with what is whole. But tension separates us...
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  9. Continuation of Attention Exercise: 'Thou Art - I Am'
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    Continuation of Attention Exercise: 'Thou Art - I Am'

    • Posted: 12/13/09
    • Meeting: 12/11/09
    • Time: 00:28:00
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    In this special short talk Guy continues his instruction on attention to include the ""Thou Art - I Am"" exercise. This deeper level of work builds on the previous attention exercises...
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  10. Expanded Commentary on Attention Exercise While Eating
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    Expanded Commentary on Attention Exercise While Eating

    • Posted: 12/05/09
    • Meeting: 11/13/09
    • Time: 00:26:00
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    This talk is a new installment in the series of discussions on attention. Guy explains that practicing to keep our attention while eating is extremely important for self-study, because when we usually eat our attention is seized exclusively by unconscious desire...
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  11. The Triangle of Attention
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    The Triangle of Attention

    • Posted: 11/13/09
    • Meeting: 11/06/09
    • Time: 00:27:00
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    This special talk is another in the series of discussions on attention. In this exercise we learn a new way in which we can work to see that presently our attention belongs to mechanical, habitual patterns...
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  12. Learning to Care for Ourselves and Others
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    Learning to Care for Ourselves and Others

    • Posted: 03/01/09
    • Meeting: 09/23/07
    • Time: 00:28:00
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    It doesn't really concern us that people today care for so little outside of themselves until, in our hour of need, we find them incapable of caring about us. Yet, even as we condemn them for this incapacity to show common kindness, we fail to see the obvious: we don't just walk amongst the uncaring, we have become their kind ourselves.
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