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Letting Go with Guy Finley

Starting over is not the continuity of anything. It is — at its inception — an untamed impulse: a blast of will that undoes whatever it touches even as it assumes its next fleeting expression.

We all tell ourselves that we want a new life; we spend hours dreaming of the day when we are freed from self-limitations or otherwise self-compromising behaviors. In our minds we see ourselves walking away from destructive relationships with others, or from habitual negative thoughts and feelings. And this is the problem: We talk to…

It’s so obvious that billions miss it: to go anywhere in this world of ours requires that we start out right from where we are. So it holds equally true that only by working with what we are in the moment can we ever hope to reach the higher levels of ourselves.

The secret fragrance of the present moment is the understanding that Real Life is forever flowering.

In the end there is only one real freedom… and that is whether or not we give ourselves — freely — to what each moment asks of us.

Sometime early in the fifth century, a small fishing boat ran into a sudden unexpected squall. The storm shattered its mast and, without a sail, it soon drifted out of familiar waters and into the sea of a neighboring but hostile country. A week later, the poor fisherman was captured by the captain of a…

Spiritual freedom costs everything — in that only someone who will pay whatever it costs comes to the realization that he never had anything real to lose.

Real freedom is found not through obtaining powers or possessions but in understanding the “wanting” nature within us that feels a captive of anything that interferes with its desires.

Truth can only lift us as high as we are willing to let go of those parts of us that want to drag us down.          

Any thought or feeling that wants you to identify with something in yourself is dragging you down. You’ve just never known that, because it feels like it’s picking you up when you identify with something. Your work begins by becoming aware of these totally conflicted states — where at last (because something is becoming present…
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