Letting Go with Guy Finley

QUESTION I am easily taken over by re-running unpleasant events in my mind. If I say something stupid to someone, I’ll hear it in my mind for days afterwards. I know this is crazy, but I just can’t seem to help myself!

There never seems enough time to make full reparations for the wrong we do to another in a moment of careless speech, so wouldn’t it be wise to take time — before we speak — to ensure that whatever we’re about to say holds no harm in it?

QUESTION I feel that the key to my elusive happiness is in finally figuring out what the purpose of life is… I keep looking at what the world offers, but find nothing really lasting!

We can either spend our lives fearful of any unwanted event that comes along to challenge our sense of self — or we can use that same situation to help set ourselves free. Presently we see whatever troubles us through the eyes of a false nature that believes protecting itself from what it fears is…

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the importance of understanding the need to awaken from spiritual sleep.

QUESTION What do I tell my children when they ask me about predictions for the future? They are feeling the doom and gloom of it all.

QUESTION I know it’s a mistake looking to someone else for a sense of myself, but how can I keep from giving myself away?

In this video blog by Guy Finley learn to make a new kind of preparation, that not only prepares you for communion with the moments of life, but also for what is timeless within you.

Once we start to see, to know in our innermost heart, that life itself is already complete, we can let go of whatever — or whoever — would have us believe otherwise. Old attachments and their long-standing aches are now seen for being what they have always been: appendages of days gone by, worthless to…

In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about our present level of mind that spends its energy trying to resolve the very problems that it creates.

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