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Letting Go with Guy Finley

We never make our fears prove themselves, but instead ourselves prove their dread with our own fearful reactions that make us run away from what is feared before we even look upon its face.

Are you afraid of some condition in your life? Here’s a life-transforming secret: that seemingly scary condition, whatever it may be, is not the problem. It is your reaction that is fearful. This is why if you will become conscious of your condition instead of afraid of it, you will change forever your relationship with…

Fear is a shadow. It is an expression of a nature… not the nature itself. I see a shadow of a branch. The shadow is the proof of the form that is giving rise to it. A shadow is (in one respect) the proof of the absence of something. Show me the fear! You can’t…

We must never lose sight of the fact that we are vessels upon, and within, a sea of eternal forces… and that unless we choose a course guided by the light of the stars above us, the direction of our life is claimed by the currents beneath us. This is why we must so often…

The inner path is lined with many trials and pitfalls. But there is nothing to be feared in this foreknowledge; in truth, these encounters with danger are actually stages of initiation; they are necessary points along the upper path where the aspirant reaches—again and again—the proverbial fork in the road. A great confusion usually clouds…

Until the peace and pleasure found within yourself is equal to or greater than any consolation found outside of yourself, then your power to be patient, loving, and profitable in every moment is, at best, conditional. Nothing better serves to sustain anger, frustration, and fear than being identified with a level of self whose life…

Over many years of living on a small mountaintop in southern Oregon, I have learned many invaluable spiritual lessons by observing the wildlife that share the forest in which my house sits sequestered. In truth, nature and her creatures are always exhibiting some of the most profound principles one can hope to learn. The celestial…

What is the real gold of any moment save the Higher Wisdom gained from it, for the treasures of this world come and go — the playthings of conditions beyond our control; but those Truths we glean about ourselves, and the Goodness born of their Light belong to us forever.    

Near the end of a busy afternoon, a senior caddie at an exclusive golf club was making his appointed rounds—double-checking that everything was in its proper place—when he entered the clubhouse locker room. Much to his shock, he saw an obviously completely exhausted man spread-eagled on the floor. A moment later, he recognized the man…

Having heard even a faint call to awaken, to realize the truth of God’s Life, one should follow the guidance of his heart . . . all the while remaining as awake as possible to its quiet urge to either correct, redirect, or all together change the path upon which one walks.      
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