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Letting Go with Guy Finley

We live in a stream of a living light that never stops pouring down upon us, even as it ceaselessly wells up from within us. The first part of this opening comment is obvious: sunlight streams down moment to moment upon our earth, vitalizing and nourishing all that it touches. And while this order of…

The pain of worrying about growing older is not “normal” as we have come to think of it. Instead, we are meant to welcome the changes of aging in order to prepare us to serve something Higher . . .

The only conviction a coward has is that someone or something else is responsible for what he refuses to face in himself.

The only things we fear in this life are the unconscious projections of our own consciousness not yet awakened to itself. For instance, a young child is unable to understand that the dark shadow on his bedroom wall isn’t a monster. His feeling is real, but the “why” behind its appearance is a lie. The…

Those who turn and run away, who quit when life asks of them more than they seem to have in that hour, prove real only their fears — and this is their sorrow. But let us press on past our doubts to make this glad discovery: the reason we mustn’t give in is because persistence…

Persistent painful problems in life are born out of one essential weakness: our inability to direct and keep our attention on what we choose to be in relationship with in the moment.

Here is why a mind awakened to its own native silence never gets into a stew over what to do with any negative thought that appears within it: Just as light makes obvious whatever form is brought into it, so silence can “see” a troubled thought for what it is in reality: nothing more than…

Our True Self longs to be free and unencumbered by self-limiting, self-defeating, compulsive thoughts and feelings. The problem is, at our present undeveloped level, we believe that another person or event is causing our unhappy feelings. We want power over them in the hope that it will give us power over our punishing feelings. Can…

Our noisy minds interfere with hearing the higher wisdom of eternal truths that are always radiating down on us. The full replay of this class is available in Guy’s Online Wisdom School, GuyFinleyNow.org, where you can join other true aspirants from around the world as we work to invite higher understanding into our lives.

To be your own person — to have your own life — begins with quietly refusing to be what “others” would have you be so that they can have the life that they want!
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