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Letting Go with Guy Finley

To know what you will possess after all that you have loved passes – as it must — look no further than how your “love” passes with the conditions that lend it its life. The foolish love foolishly, and suffer a fool’s fate. Be wise; choose each moment to remember the one Love that neither…

In this podcast by Guy Finley, discover what it really means to love every moment of your life, no matter what it is that you need to do. Click here to listen to “Make Room for Real Love in Your Life”

Question: What is the role of guilt? And what is the role of self-blame for personal wrongs committed? What about confession of sins? Answer: The role of guilt belongs to the self-wrecking parts of one’s self that persist in unconsciously doing what that same self then decries it has done. Self-blame is the unconscious advocate…

The need to be whole, to know God’s love and forgiveness is something seeded into the soul that He places there. Our task is to cultivate the “earth” of ourselves, to do the weeding and watering, and ensure that the “pests” (like fear, doubt, over-indulgence of anything –including negative states and regrets) don’t get the…

With all things I can serve Thee, In all things I can find Thee, Through all things I can know Thee, For all things I can love Thee.

In difficult moments with others let us remember this truth: it is better to find ourselves lacking the love we need to be kind — and to quietly suffer this humiliation — than it is to act from what is unkind by lashing out to blame another as a way of hiding our weakness.

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how any kind of blame is actually an avoidance of seeing yourself as you actually are in the present moment. Click here to listen to “Blame Schmame”

A big part of our inner work in all of our relationships involves remembering this key idea: whenever we are not present and properly attentive to ourselves, we may be sure the false self is busy attending to something we’ll be paying for in the days ahead. Disconcerting, yes; but there’s no denying it: there…

Question: I’ve said and done some terrible things to people in my life. How do I get through this guilt? Is there a right way to make amends to people I’ve wronged? Answer: Yes. Change yourself. In the long run, there is no other way that we can be forgiven for who and what we’ve…

Whatever justifies the unconscious suffering inherent in anger, blame, or bitterness is, itself, a part of — in league with — these same negative states. And that’s what we have to see if we ever want to be free of whatever it is (within us) that has “good reasons” for tearing itself apart.
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