Letting Go with Guy Finley

Question: Happiness is elusive! How do I let go of an ever-present feeling of being discontented? If there is one weed in a field of roses, you can bet the weed is what I will see. Answer: When it comes to discontentment or any other unhappiness, we are making a similar painful mistake that is…

Until we realize the impossibility of finding permanent happiness in impermanent thoughts and feelings, the only thing that will ever change about our lives are those things that we sit and wish hadn’t changed.

It is in our wanting “more” than the moment gives us to be that we not only sow the seeds of our own discontent but, for this same self-inflicted darkness, find ourselves blinded to a great truth that can help set us free: everything we need to succeed at being “all” that the Divine would…

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about what it takes to outgrow the part of ourselves that loves only itself. Click here to listen to “Only a First Love Can Set You Free”

There is no brighter gift, no greater potential given to we human beings, than the presence of a timeless Light within us whose power makes all things possible. This ever quiet, always present Light goes before us at all times, as does the illumination of a lamp move ahead of the one who walks by…

Life is a process of transference of beautiful solar, celestial, cosmic energies — a scale of being that rains down into us as individual creatures. In this transference of energy, whatever is touched by it is transformed in some way. There is an exchange that takes place from above to below, so that what is…

In this extraordinary short talk, Guy Finley talks about how each and every small act of doing what we know is true, no matter what the cost, changes the entire world. Click the following links to listen to this talk: Learn to Be the Light of This World (Part 1) Learn to Be the Light…

Selfishness has many forms; and there are many parts of us that do not want us to even suspect how deep and dark run their immoral fiber. I had an email from a student saying that there are some things in her spiritual work that she can’t agree to do because to do so would…

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