In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how a real spiritual life becomes possible for us when we begin to act on what we know is true.

Highlights:
What is a hypocrite? A hypocrite is someone who professes one thing, but does another. Is there anyone on earth who has not fit that definition at one time or another? We have all experienced firsthand the painful effects of living from a hypocritical nature. A person who is beginning to be a conscious hypocrite is someone who realizes that the right thing to do in a moment of trial is almost always going to be the tough thing to do. The moment that we decide to do the tough thing, even if we fail at it, we are no longer hypocrites. The whole idea of hypocrisy is intimately connected to one's will and desire. We do interior spiritual work because we want to be in relationship with a Divine Will. We want this Divine Will to be our life so that we no longer have to live in conflict as we presently do. But in order to have a relationship with that Will, we must learn what it means to surrender our own will to it, and surrendering is not always sweet. Surrendering often involves an immense internal battle. The hard way is the way that almost nobody wants, but we must never hesitate to enter into the battle. Real spiritual work begins when we meet this hypocrite within ourselves. It takes a willingness on our part to see -- ten thousand times if necessary -- that we do not have the strength that we attribute to ourselves when we are merely thinking about spiritual ideas. When we weary of the empty sensations created by just imagining a spiritual life, we're finally getting close to being spiritual.

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In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how self-knowledge is essential for any human being who longs to be in relationship with a higher order of life that is everlastingly whole and content.

Highlights:
Spiritually speaking, absolutely nothing stands in our way except what we do not yet know about ourselves. This means that we do not have to look anywhere else. The other side of this idea that nothing stands in our way is that there are many parts of us that don't want us to know about them at all. These parts have absolutely no interest in anything revelatory taking place. It is impossible to ever come upon "bad" knowledge. There is no such thing. If that is the case, then why do we resist negative self-knowledge? Why do we resist discovering that we are selfish, self-centered, and full of fear? We resist seeing these presently unknown parts of ourselves because something lives inside of us that has convinced us that it is bad to see these negative qualities. If we are earnest in our wish to become better human beings, then it is mandatory for us to be able to look and see all of the characteristics -- negative and positive -- that live within us. If we want to know the truth, we have to know all of the truth, and not just the parts that please and console us. We have to know the whole of our nature. There is no such thing as bad self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is the key to liberation. No other liberation exists without it. The refusal to receive and look at what we are is the same as refusing the liberation that comes when we simply agree to see ourselves as we are.

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In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how every moment is actually a divine communication that wants to reveal to us our own limitless possibilities.

Highlights:
Most of us like to receive a love letter or a letter from a friend. Why? Because the letter represents a kind of relationship that is expressed through correspondence. We naturally long to correspond with real life. We like music, for instance, because it produces a corresponding movement in us. Music is correspondence. We love the beauty of music because there is a corresponding beauty inside of us. God, this great intelligence, wants to correspond with us, and it is never not doing that. Presently we do not understand the nature of this correspondence. Everything is correspondence, and in reality, that may be all there is: this beautiful correspondence and the awareness of it. We must work to become conscious of what the moment is trying to tell us is true about ourselves, instead of protecting or running from what is being revealed.

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