Letting Go with Guy Finley

One of the most powerful forces in the universe available to human beings is also one of the least understood and appreciated. This powerful force is silence. The secret strength found in silence is as practical in daily life as is its true character life-changing. You can actually possess, and reap the benefits from, a…

The true source of abundance is the silent mind, for within its fertile quietude rests all potential, all power, and all promise.

Setting intentions and working on spiritual exercises helps you to see parts of yourself that you’re currently unconscious to and have no authority over — and it is seeing that disparity that begins to bring those parts into proper alignment with a higher will and authority.

Anytime you touch the truth of yourself through the work of realizing a deliberate intention to do the same, three events take place at once: the truth you touch transforms you – so that your intention to touch and be touched again is strengthened – and you understand why conscious effort is the only effort…

You cannot do the work of starting life over, and be busy reliving your past at the same time. Being new is a deliberate choice, an act of alignment that places you in conscious contact with a living presence that’s incapable of repeating itself.

No brighter tomorrow can dawn for us that isn’t paid for each day by our work to better serve God’s life, illuminate our self, and uplift the hearts of others.

The cost of starting over spiritually is not what you pay to achieve some distant desire, but it is in your willingness to let go of — to dare to live without — any desire you may have whose promise of fulfillment drives you to search for it in yet another tomorrow. It is sheer…

Real Life will… and must keep challenging our understanding of it, because real Life is ceaselessly renewing itself; only by learning to be as one with its changes can we hope to understand — and agree — to play our part in a Divine plan that never stops starting over.

There is no point in time where something Timeless isn’t renewing everything in creation. We know nothing of that life even though we live in the Light that is actually giving us our own life. Rather, we live from an unseen body of expectations—either pursuing them or avoiding anything we fear might threaten our identity…


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