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. Love Contains All Possibilities
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    Are You "Dread" or Alive?

    • Posted: 08/28/21
    • Meeting: 08/11/21
    • Time: 00:13:30
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    In this excerpt from a recent classroom talk, Guy talks about how agreeing to live with fear, worry, anxiety, depression -- or any other negative state -- is the same as living in the "dread zone," a psychological state of useless suffering that prevents us from being alive and aware in the present moment.

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  2. There Is Nothing to Fear
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    There Is Nothing to Fear

    • Posted: 06/18/21
    • Meeting: 06/09/21
    • Time: 00:05:22
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    In this short talk, Guy talks about how there is no fear of the future when we live in the present moment, where everything that we need is being given to us.

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  3. Live in the Moment Instead of Preparing For It
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    Live in the Moment Instead of Preparing For It

    • Posted: 03/10/21
    • Meeting: 02/14/21
    • Time: 00:05:07
    • 35 Views
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    In this answer to a webinar attendee's question, Guy explains that trying to prepare and rehearse what we are going to say or do in a moment is the same as living in fear of the moment. Instead what we need to do is make the intention to see everything that we can so that we can leave those moments as wiser, more awake human beings.

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  4. Your Spiritual Life is Nothing Personal
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    Your Spiritual Life is Nothing Personal

    • Posted: 05/09/20
    • Meeting: 04/05/20
    • Time: 00:05:53
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    There is a higher relationship that has nothing to do with anything personal at all. It is the realization of the existence of strength, of majestic beauty, of power... and that realization is inseparable from the consciousness in which it appears. And that consciousness isn't personal. It belongs to what is Divine in a human being and it is a gift of the Divine.

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  5. Facing the Fear of Your Own Mortality
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    Facing the Fear of Your Own Mortality

    • Posted: 05/04/20
    • Meeting: 03/29/20
    • Time: 00:07:11
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    Question: "Two years ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I'm doing better now but how can I let go of the fear of waiting for the other shoe to drop?" Listen to Guy's answer as he explains why waiting in the middle of any fearful reaction is the only place to catch a glimpse of a higher message.

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  6. Don't Let the Fear of Fear Run Your Life
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    Don't Let the Fear of Fear Run Your Life

    • Posted: 03/27/20
    • Meeting: 03/22/20
    • Time: 00:06:32
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    When we try to avoid or manipulate a moment in order to just get through it, we will meet that same moment again because we are the same. We cannot separate the moment we don't want from the level of consciousness that fears it. Seeing this is the same as realizing that the fear, though we may feel its presence, is not the power that it claims to be.

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  7. Learning to Ride the Waves of Consciousness
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    Learning to Ride the Waves of Consciousness

    • Posted: 03/24/20
    • Meeting: 03/04/20
    • Time: 00:05:27
    • 28 Views
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    Everything we need to know about "what to do" is always right here with us. But the mind that is always trying to escape the moment that is being revealed believes that it must think of something to do in order to get through the moment. There is no problem in the present moment. There is only a mind that creates a problem because it doesn't understand the moment...

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  8. Life is a School for Your Higher Education
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    Life is a School for Your Higher Education

    • Posted: 02/23/20
    • Meeting: 02/16/20
    • Time: 00:09:31
    • 21 Views
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    We are always in school. Our lives are intended to be dedicated to self-study, which would mean that we are always present to ourselves. Being a student in the true school of life means that our studies are instantly applicable to our lives.

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  9. The Timeless Work of Being Human
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    The Timeless Work of Being Human

    • Posted: 01/27/20
    • Meeting: 01/26/20
    • Time: 00:07:45
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    Every creature in nature has work that nature has given them to do. They must do this work in order to survive. They have no choice, and their work doesn't end until their bodies pass. There is no stress or fear in what they are given to do. We as human beings also have work that we have been asked to do in this world, both practical and for the sake of spirit.

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  10. Within You is the Seed of the Divine
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    Within You is the Seed of the Divine

    • Posted: 12/12/19
    • Meeting: 12/14/18
    • Time: 00:05:36
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    The winter solstice represents the time of the year that the light comes into the darkness. It is an outer representation of an inner exchange that is always taking place within us, so that we can be brought into a greater life and fulfill the promise we all have to be a better human being. It is only as we are delivered into this other order of light and understanding that we...

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  11. Give Your Attention to What is True
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    Give Your Attention to What is True

    • Posted: 07/23/19
    • Meeting: 06/21/19
    • Time: 00:05:15
    • 6 Views
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    Plants in nature are created to be heliotropic, which makes it possible for them to receive the greatest amount of life-giving light that is possible. We could say that flowers, grasses and trees keep their "attention" on the sun for as long as they can. We on the other hand, are currently not heliotropic. We are self-tropic. As we are now we follow our own thoughts. We give our attention to what...

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  12. The Unexpected Solution to Your Pain
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    The Unexpected Solution to Your Pain

    • Posted: 05/27/19
    • Meeting: 04/21/19
    • Time: 00:05:57
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    We can't have a true need without there existing that which is intended to fulfill it. But we have to allow the need to be there, wait, and watch the part of us that attempts to resolve the need with its own will. Then we discover that the resolution to any question we might have is within the question itself.

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