Letting Go with Guy Finley

Guy Finley explains that we have lost our innate ability to discern what’s good from what’s evil, and instead make peace with anything that promises to reconcile a disturbance within us. But you can’t have your own life when something in you is convincing you to do what you know you ought not do. Your…

There is nothing to do, only something to see . . . Blind reactions based on an incomplete understanding of your circumstances always sow the seeds of yet other unwanted moments yet to come. Everything you “do” in this manner only serves to create more of the very disturbance that you had set out to…

On this one point all saints, sages, and illumined beings agree: there is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the divinity within. The first step in learning to be still isn’t really an action at all, meaning that it’s nothing like we might ordinarily think of doing when we…

Your true self is a creative silence, a ground of perfect stillness from which all disturbances appear and to which they return if left alone. The clearer this revelation becomes, the more confident you become that being still is the same as the power to solve any problem before it begins. www.YourImmortalSelf.com

We cannot separate the problems of this world—including the pain endured in agreeing to honor, respect, and support those we love—from the awakening of a patience and kindness that can be born in us no other way.

Guy Finley reveals and explains the four words that will always aid you and those around you in any stressful family situation.

The only way we begin to act as a true force of healing in the lives of others is when, at last, we cease to hurt ourselves.

Here’s a simple but ultimately very self-liberating action to take if you wish to reduce the amount of stress and anxiety that you feel in the company of others, friends, or family: Choose to be more interested in quietly discovering the truth of yourself than you are in trying to prove yourself as being somehow…

When it comes to healing mental or emotional pain, the first step to freeing oneself is in seeing the following facts: resistance to anything (including psychological pain) is a secret form of fascination with it, and to be fascinated with anything—regardless of its nature—is to be identified with it. Add to these insights the fact…

Learn to see and to use the presence of any psychological pain as an invitation to reprioritize your present values. . .

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