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Letting Go with Guy Finley

We affirm the Light of Truth — not by professing its powers on sunny days, but in choosing to walk by its Light — no matter how faint — even in the midst of our darkest hour when all that we see before us is defeat.

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how our awareness of the true needs of other human beings heralds within us the birth of true compassion. Click here to listen to “The Great and Secret Source of Self-Transformation”

When we start to see that there is very little that’s constant in us, very little to be counted on in times of crisis (inwardly or outwardly), the tendency is to fall back into some kind of self-loathing or blaming of life in one way or another. But, if we begin to see that this…

Don’t be afraid to let the truth strike you. What does this mean? Whether in simple truths like the ones you’re about to read, or in an moment of great personal crisis, don’t fear what life is trying to show you about itself and about you. Welcome it! Yes! Don’t resist anything that threatens to…

We are really only given two things in life that are purely ours: attention – the ability to give our attention to something – and the time to use that attention. That’s really all we are given as human beings, and we tend to squander these gifts. The gifts that God, the Divine, that Love…

The more we practice quietly stepping outside that rushing stream of thoughts about ourselves, the more we realize our True Self as being something altogether unthinkable; for the undreamed power of a silent mind is this: Since it never sinks itself into useless considerations of the painful kind, it has no need to be rescued…

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how every moment presents us with an opportunity to learn something new and valuable about ourselves. Click here to listen to “Be the Living Prayer”

The meditative life is not limited to sitting down someplace quietly, nor is it limited to someplace in time where we can control conditions so that we can experience something of a quiet mind. It can be said that meditation is the active relationship that an individual has with the whole of his or her…

Question: What is meditation, and is there some “best” method for its practice? Answer: Real meditation is our willingness and work to be aware of what we are in relationship with within ourselves twenty-four hours a day. To answer what is the best method of meditation, we must first understand the purpose of meditation. True…

Far better than being someone who is always sorry for what their being has brought to pass in the life of others is to start, instead, the difficult interior work of actually changing our being . . . so that we no longer need to regret the mindless actions committed by a self asleep to…
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