Letting Go with Guy Finley

Question: My teenage son studies hard, but his grades remain below average. I would like to be able to offer him some trick about studying and taking exams that would help him to achieve good results. Answer: All of us, including your son, do what interests us most in every given moment, so if you…

Excellence, wherever… and within whomever you may find it, is always a result of effort… never by accident.

Patient persistence in our labors, coupled with persistent patience through-out each one: these two powers serve not only to perfect the task at hand, but also work in harmony to perfect the hand that undertakes the task.

Unconscious suffering is a creation of incomplete perception; it is the inevitable painful outcome of having mistaken the partial for the whole. *** Employing self-remembrance, strive to practice Presence; (this) one action is the path of spiritual purification, even as it serves to reveal all of God’s Kingdoms presently concealed within you.

Brooding, resenting, regretting… all are forms of unconscious suffering, and serve to strengthen the false notion that the negative state is a product of the condition, instead of a reflection of one’s consciousness. To suffer consciously is to act in a whole new way where one chooses to be consciously passive to states that are…

If each of us gave one-tenth the amount of time and energy we pour uselessly into suffering over our own sufferings, and instead agreed to use these energies to quietly become aware of the secret sorrow of others, and our part in this, the world would find herself bathed in a new Light that would…

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how we must always make an effort to be awake so that we can begin using life’s currents and waves for our own interior growth. Click here to listen to “Go Against the World That Wants to Carry You Away – Part 1” Click here to listen…

Question: With war raging and me in the middle of it all, will my spiritual work lift me out of the clutches of this dismal place? And if so, where? Answer:  Freedom from this raging planet with all of its wars begins with discovering and walking away from the war within ourselves. In Truth, there…

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