Letting Go with Guy Finley

Nothing in Real Life actually works against us… other than when our sleeping mind starts resisting its own imagined conclusions.

What is right, bright, and true, never announces or asserts itself; rather it stands as an ever-watchful sentinel quietly serving to clarify whatever is out of place, in the dark, or otherwise false.

Our resistance to any evil or otherwise corrupt character – regardless of circumstance – proves the presence of an unseen similarity; there can be no recognition of any exterior degraded nature that isn’t born of our interior resonation with it. Which means…any sustained negative reaction is actually the unconscious action of that dark nature attempting…

Deep spiritual work reveals the truth that hellish things on earth manifest as they do because their dark cause dwells hidden somewhere in us. We are about to look into this interior abyss and shine into its unseen corners a beautiful light of understanding. We will illuminate the center of the earth where dark forces…

Don’t put yourself into what you observe about the behavior of others. Stay with yourself. It doesn’t matter what anyone anywhere is doing or saying relative to your potential for inner development. The expression “The buck stops here” is valuable as long as we understand it to mean that these recurring blasts of unconscious energy…

Question: In conversations with others, I find myself insisting on being “right.” Why should I care so much that my ideas about life are understood by others? Answer: Be willing to try to understand the moment instead of needing to be understood in it. You will lose yourself, and you will begin to have the…

We always have the choice to start over with any difficult relationship…

You never again have to wonder why people behave as they do… once you learn to watch the way you are (around them).

Question: How do I let go of my disappointments with other people, including my wish to punish them for any pain or sorrow I still feel due to my relationship with them? Answer: We can never hope to be free as long as any part of us struggles with, or suffers over what others are…

We can never hope to be free as long as any part of us struggles with, or suffers over what others are doing, have done, or won’t do with their lives. If we could remain aware of the often-compromised state of our own character, that is, how we still do those things to others that…

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