Guy Finley's Blog

The priceless Gift of Life can't be freely received -- as it is forever being freely offered -- as long as we meet it with any demands upon it.

We can either spend our lives shaking in fear each time an unwanted moment arrives -- trying, in vain, to protect ourselves from what we've imagined it means... Or, we can use that same moment to star

The fear-filled, anxious self loves one feeling, and one feeling only: getting all heated up over the "fire" it just ignited in the dark of its imaginary life, so that then it has something it must ru

The more we will learn to shoulder -- consciously struggle with -- the weight of any trying moment... by stepping up, and into whatever that responsibility our awareness makes evident as "belonging" t

Here's a great spiritual paradox: the more willing we are to awaken to -- attend, and consciously suffer -- (our) human weakness, the more we are endowed with the Divine strength needed to transcend i

Human beings are a unique creation in the celestial scheme of things: unlike the untold billions of other life forms teeming upon the earth -- whose nature is one and the same as their character, an o

Trying to change, or otherwise control the unexpected appearance of some unwanted moment -- whose anticipated outcome you negatively imagine must be avoided at all costs -- actually helps create the u

Anxiously seeking to find some way to protect ourselves from the fear of something that "may be coming our way" is to punish ourselves in the present moment in the hope of avoiding it later!

All passing moments -- seen as being high or low, for or against -- should be realized for what they are in reality: just another reflection moving across the mirror of Time, setting the stage for the

There are as many memory-paved roads promising to lead to a new life as there are old, time-encrusted thoughts looking for a way to escape, yet again, the result of all the dead-end choices they conti