Letting Go with Guy Finley

Whenever two people put the love of Truth, of the Almighty, before themselves, their love will flourish in ways impossible for those who have only themselves to either embrace or blame. To help clarify this liberating fact, try to see the truth in the following insight: Where two people believe their happiness is in the…

Every destructive act ever committed against oneself or another — every self-wrecking habit, every dark decision that ever caused the earth or her creatures to suffer — began with a single false thought mistaken as being true.

The passage of time always proves one thing: we cannot keep what is unreal, and… that what is false will inevitably prove itself to be so.

Question: Money seems to always be an issue for me. It doesn’t matter if I have a little or a lot — there never seems to be enough for what I want to feel happy and secure. Money matters have been central to almost every important decision I’ve made in life. If I knew I’d…

Awakening to Real Life occurs in direct proportion to waking up from our own sleeping nature — a fact which brings us face to face with some of life’s oldest and greatest spiritual mysteries. The myth of the phoenix, the riddle of the sphinx, even the story of Christ’s birth in a dimly lit stable…

If you will consciously strive to place what you know to be True — before you thoughtlessly consent to fulfilling your wants — the day comes when the Light of Truth itself becomes the fulfillment of all you have ever wanted. In other words: do the interior works of putting God first in your life…

The 7 Golden Rules of True Self-Fulfillment The following 7 Golden Rules of True Self-Fulfillment are not the same as the laws that govern this world; nor are they what govern the lives of the vast majority of the men and women who crawl upon it. As is true of all creatures, these individuals have…

Nothing in the universe can make you relive the ache of some past psychological pain. This means that any misery over a mistake in your past — – whether ten seconds passed, or twenty years gone by — belongs to a part of you whose very “life” depends upon driving you back into and a…

Sometimes we can feel discouraged because our past efforts have never prevailed over what challenges us, so why try now? Or perhaps we are disheartened because one of our main hopes for happiness suddenly proves itself to be hopeless. Maybe we get downcast in the day because our body, or our mind, is no longer…

All day long we ride a memory-go-round to give ourselves a sense of self. We think we’re riding a new thought, but actually the mind just spins ‘round and ‘round, while nothing changes.

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