Letting Go with Guy Finley

Each time you’ll take the step that you’re sure you can’t, you’ll discover that the “you” who would not was only a thought that believed it could not.  *** How many times have you found yourself thinking you’d like to develop a new skill, or sharpen an old one? Maybe learn a language or musical…

Learn to love what seems more beautiful than yourself, celebrate the gifts of others that outshine your own, practice the patience you have yet to win… giving yourself to a greater Self is not just the path to freedom, but the only way to perfect your own highest possibilities.

If you love getting gifts — and who doesn’t — then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the “present” moment.

How do we learn to use our relationships with others to realize a new kind of relationship with ourselves wherein we are able to discover that who we really are is all we need to be? Our willingness to strive to employ higher ideals in our relationships with others rewards us with the Real Life…

Only when the pleasure of being by ourselves either equals or exceeds that contentment that we feel in the company of others, are we capable of being unshakably true to ourselves, as well as those with whom we gather.

Guy Finley explores the popular passage “Ask and you shall receive,” and discusses what it means to really ask with a whole heart.

Love never anticipates life; anticipation arises from wanting something more from life than it offers in the moment, which means the father of anticipation is a close relative of greed.

There are aspects of divine life that we can — when we understand where we are intended to live — make a connection with and receive from that higher life everything we need to handle in any moment. You and I are afraid of moments because we have to go into them armed only with…

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