Letting Go with Guy Finley

Real power isn’t the ability to imagine and implement an endless series of new solutions to old problems, but to awaken the higher understanding that allows us to transcend the need we have to live with any painful problems at all. Which would you rather have: a big fire hose with a hydrant and a…

QUESTION What’s wrong with knowing that someone or something outside of me is responsible for making me feel unhappy?

What does it mean to put the truth first and foremost in one’s life? And why should one even try to do this, when it’s so much easier to just continue doing what one wants to do for oneself before all else?

Every person knows what it feels like to be carried off by an anxious state, so you decide: when some anxiety comes along and takes over your life, are you an awake, inwardly centered person or are you an unconscious, outwardly driven man or woman? Which are you?

In this short talk, Guy Finley explains why there is never any good reason to feel disappointed or discouraged about your life.

QUESTION In this time of unprecedented economic downturn, people without jobs and families losing their homes, is there anything to say to those of us who have experienced this loss and trauma? I don’t know what to say to my friends and coworkers who no longer have a job, and the prospect of finding one…

Preparation, hard work, is part of perfecting whatever you’ve imagined you want to attain in this world. But there is a world beyond anything we can imagine; (it is) an intelligent presence, a “place” of powers and principles whose self-obliterating touch can no more be prepared for than can a mountain pine prepare for a…

Learn how discouragement has been holding you back from discovering that who you really are cannot be stopped. In this video blog, Guy Finley talks about a special spiritual secret that reveals how we can begin to be the spiritually successful person we are intended to be.

Never accept the lingering presence of any negative state. These unconscious forces must appear within us, but they must never be allowed to define us or our actions. The awakening mind — or even one disposed toward such an end — is fully capable of recognizing the difference between states of darkness and light, between…

In this special podcast, Guy Finley explores the popular passage “Ask and you shall receive,” and discusses what it means to really ask with a whole heart.

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