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Letting Go with Guy Finley

All spiritual practices are a means to self-discovery. Everything we discover about ourselves enlarges our relationship with life and there is no end to these relationships, just as Real Life is endless. Our willingness to work our way through the following twelve special practices — to strive to use these higher ideals in our relationships…

The greatest, most abundant resource on planet Earth is also its least understood and utilized. Its unlimited supply is found virtually everywhere, anytime, and under all circumstances, even though few recognize its real value. What is this most precious collective resource? It is our relationships. Consider these truths: It is within relationships that we grow…

Each moment is unique; never to come again… and this includes all of our relationships as they’re revealed through the celestial conditions that converge to create them. This is why our one real wish should be — as best we’re able to remember it — to never rush through any moment of life; otherwise we…

No sense of bitter disappointment about others having “failed” us can darken our day without our first having fashioned high expectations for them; which means that when we find ourselves suffering for the actions of another, we need only realize the following truth. Our negative reaction is not the bitter fruit of his or her…

When another human being falls short of our expectations and we realize that what we want is not going to happen, instead of our day being ruined, there is a way for us to elevate ourselves and the other person in question. This special inner work begins with a new kind of wish born in us…

Evil transforms suffering into unconscious acts of blame, bitterness, and self-pity — harmful forces that punish everyone; while the Good transforms these same dark states into conscious suffering — creating humility that heals whomever it touches.

Whenever we get caught up in some pain—and start complaining or crying about it—we actually believe (albeit totally unconsciously) that what we are telling others and ourselves is based in reality itself. In these same moments our stated belief—that we are somehow inescapably compromised—or impossibly incomplete—is strengthened because someone is looking at us and sending…

In any relationship where one person depends on another to be his or her “parachute” – and the other accepts this role –both will fall to the ground. Question: I know someone who is always down in the dumps, and I want to help uplift him by sharing the truths I am learning. Without using…

It is more than enough to be just what we are in the moment . . .

We suffer because we consort with painful thoughts and feelings, thinking somehow that not wanting them makes them “go away.” But our unconscious actions betray us: first, by animating what makes us ache, and then by binding us to that relationship through our resistance to it. Here’s a simple way of saying these last few…
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