When a person wants to reach the next level in their life, when they want to understand the truths -- the principles that actually produce in them a new kind of freedom -- they have to know where to look for it.
From micro to macro, you can discover that the whole universe is based on cycles ... Views: 1151
An essential spiritual force is missing from our lives. We are about to gather ample evidence of this fact, and learn ways to recover this crucial force that we unknowingly give away.
The power we're missing is patience. Real patience is not about waiting for one's expectations to be fulfilled. ... Views: 1781
A man once awakened to find himself riding through what appeared to be a haunted house. He didn't know exactly where he was. All he did know was that it was very dark and that he was moving along with no choice as to the direction. And if that wasn't bad enough, around almost every twisting ... Views: 1086
(Excerpted from "Let Go and Live in the Now" -- Red Wheel/Weiser, 2004: 1,150 words)
I can think of no greater encouragement than the self-evident Truth that there dwells in each of us the opportunity to explore and know the Extraordinary Life. The meaning of Extraordinary I wish to convey ... Views: 1233
excerpted from Guy Finley's newest book "Let Go and Live in the Now." Red Wheel/Weiser, 2004.
I can think of no greater encouragement than the self-evident Truth that there dwells in each of us the opportunity to explore and know the Extraordinary Life. The meaning of Extraordinary I wish to ... Views: 1259
(An Excerpt from "Apprentice of the Heart")
Seated in the center of the heart, as surely as the essence of a tiny seed holds the promise of a towering tree, lives within us the Presence of a Power that can dispel any gathering darkness and change what is unkind into conscious compassion. What ... Views: 1218
Any weakness we may harbor in our present character persists only because we have yet to see how its presence compromises our happiness, but a growing awareness of this interior shakiness changes everything. Our awakening stirs within us a Celestial Character created for the purpose of ... Views: 1259
Key Lesson:
Part I:
It seldom occurs to us that whatever we persist with in our lives works to perfect the same, so that by allowing persistent negative thoughts and feelings to have their way with us, we unknowingly perfect self-punishment!
Part II:
As surely as raindrops have the power to ... Views: 1413
An angel has two wings. On each of these wings is written one of these two words: YES and NO. As we are about to learn, these two simple words represent special principles that are the wings of spiritual freedom.
For instance, we must learn to say YES to self-study, prayer, meditation and ... Views: 2039
Three New Choices That Dismiss Dark Conditions
One reason we must learn to say "Yes" to life -- regardless of how much we may not want what it brings -- is that whenever we embrace a fearful or negative view of some unwanted situation, not only must we still find our way through the twists and ... Views: 1200
Unlike the untold billions of other life forms teeming on the Earth -- whose nature is an open and shut case -- human nature is not fixed. What does this mean to you? Only everything!
The tiger, the horse, and the bird, must express their nature. They have no real choice. And even though they ... Views: 1325
No animal hides in shame for being itself. No tree bends to the opinion of others. No wind avoids the granite face before it. Only human beings cultivate ways in which to fawn or cower before one another, and all for the sake of winning nothing but a fleeting feeling that for their cunning they ... Views: 1389
Since what others may do to us is not in our power to change, we need only concern ourselves with what we do to ourselves . . . for this is in our power.
There is always a moment before a problem starts with another human being where we realize that what we want is not going to happen. ... Views: 1245
Key Lesson
Part I:
Life itself has never weighed-in so heavily upon us as to hurt us; rather it is we who - - in ignorance of reality - - carelessly attribute weight to events that are essentially without substance, causing ourselves to suffer nothing less than the fervent magnitude of our own ... Views: 1214
Our lives are meant to be bright, noble, and ever ascending. This promise of our True Potential is made good in us by the fulfillment of our possibilities, and not through the interminable struggle of trying to do what is impossible. Most of our sorrows are the offspring of trying to be ... Views: 4114
Flow With The Present Moment
Into The Fullness Of The Free Mind
Here's an inner life exercise of immeasurable value. Think of these new instructions as a kind of special cleansing agent, but not as a way to improve yourself. Let me explain.
When we wash a window, to clean away its ... Views: 1485
Barring those moments when we find ourselves in real physical danger, conditions of themselves have absolutely no authority over us. It's true. No event or circumstance has any power to make us feel one way or another. The only command any condition may have over us is that which we ... Views: 2738