Letting Go with Guy Finley

True Peace is not a time to come, any more than the Kingdom of Heaven is a place apart from our own Awakened Conscience. This means that any impatience we feel over what we perceive as prohibiting our peace from arriving must be a lie… as must also be the blame we heap upon those…

As the sleeping mind — driven on, as it is by unconscious desires — awakens to see that the only thing thought can do is make circles, it slowly stops seeking. The divine longing of the heart to know unconditional love remains, but the old “action” of trying to think one’s way out of pain,…

There can be little as extraordinary as our discovery that we have been “lost” in a world of illusion, wandering and wallowing through the kingdom of thought where — in the vain attempt to prove we know what it means to “rule” over our life and ourselves — we crown ourselves daily with a ring…

Just as winter yields to the onset of spring, as surely does the moon submit to the sun, so too are we created to give ourselves to that Greater Life that alone can make us evergreen and fill us with life-giving Light. *** Learn to be thankful that life is being given to you moment…

There is only one way, and one way only that any of us will ever know the real meaning of Christ’s life, and that is… to share in his death; this means we must give up what he gave up if we would know, from ourselves, what was gained through his deliberate sacrifice. So, if…

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how true fulfillment is connected to using our life for the purpose that it was given to us. Click here to listen to Part 1 of “Christ’s Life as a Lesson in Living Fully” Click here to listen to Part 2 of “Christ’s Life as a Lesson…

Within each discovery, by each revelation of the reality underlying our present level of self, we are brought to a crossroads on our journey to the Kingdom of Truth. The road on the left, of resistance to what is revealed, leads to denial — and the eventual death of our spiritual possibilities. The Right Road…

Real life can no more act to pull us down than does the rising sun burden the spring flowers that wait to bathe in its nourishing light. *** Never believe in any negative thought or feeling that would have you believe, “There’s no way!” Always remember instead that Real Life is a secret and vital…

Whoever fails to try what his heart would have him do — because his mind tells him, “This you cannot do” — fails to hear the ever-present Voice of Reality forever shouting to all those who would dare: “No sincere effort ever goes without being rewarded.” *** Never believe in any negative thought or feeling…

In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about a new understanding of ourselves that will put an end to unconscious suffering… if we will remember to put it into practice. Click here to listen to “Self-Healing Begins as Self-Hurting Ends”

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