In this valuable podcast, Guy Finley talks about the higher intention and purpose behind the idea of "remembering yourself". Listen closely and learn about a beautiful, timeless principle that you can integrate into your life at this very moment.

Highlights:
We're all familiar with the general idea that in a moment of crisis a person ought to be able to remember what is right and true. We want to remember that there is an ideal aspect of our character within us that the circumstance we find ourselves going through has seemingly made disappear. We have all struggled the best that we know how to be the embodiment of that ideal, and there are definite reasons as to why we are seemingly unable to remember that noble character in the hour of need. True character is not an act of imitation. It has nothing to do with anything anyone will ever teach you. True character is an individual's identity, but it is a forgotten one, which is why the term "remember yourself" is often used in a real spiritual work. To remember yourself does not mean thinking about yourself as someone who is trying to remember yourself. In order to remember oneself, one must be aware of the spiritual fact that we all live in two worlds at once. One of the worlds in which we live is an exterior world of incoming impressions. The other world in which we live is the interior world of thoughts, feelings and energies. The world of interior life is always meeting the world of exterior impressions, and a person's life is the marriage of the incoming impressions and the part of the person that is capable of receiving those impressions consciously. It is your awareness of both worlds at once that is remembering yourself. Thought remembering what it means to remember yourself is not the same as the actual work of remembering yourself. If you'll remember the whole of yourself in any given moment, working to be aware of everything taking place within you and outside of you, comes with it a natural presence in the present moment. The awareness of these two worlds meeting each other belongs to a higher, loving consciousness in which exists the character that we long to embody.

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In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about the choice we have to either passively exist -- having our lives lived for us -- or to become conscious that we are actually alive and experience everything that comes with the awareness of real life.

Highlights:
You can have consciousness of life. The difference between just living and being aware of the fact that you are real life is so immense that it cannot even be compared. You have to be willing to know that you are alive, as opposed to just thinking about being alive. If you want to know about real life, you have to be willing to be alive, with everything that it entails. Presently we do not truly live because something within us rejects what consciousness requires of us. Just living -- that is, just going through our daily routine without any effort to be aware that we are alive -- is the same as dying. Consciousness, however, holds living and dying. When meditating, try to remember that what you need to do is to be aware of yourself, as opposed to trying to get something out of your meditation. If you will be conscious of yourself, you will find that you already have everything you need... and more. You must make the choice. Do you want to just exist, or do you want to make the journey back home and participate in real life?

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In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how you can start enjoying every moment your life, no matter what it is that you have to do.

Highlights:
There is a very old, familiar expression that states, "The journey of 10,000 miles begins with a single step." That commonly used phrase has a great interior, spiritual meaning. It is saying, "Wherever you are, whatever you have to do, no matter what it is that is in front of you... Just start!" Anyone who has ever done some sort of physical exercise on a regular basis knows that sometimes the mind or the body just does not want to cooperate with the desire to exercise. Many times you must do your exercises in spite of parts of yourself that would rather just "take it easy." And yet almost without fail, when your work-out is finished, your body is "thanking" you and you are more than glad to have done it. The negative spirit of not-wanting only exists as long as an individual heeds it. That spirit has no authority on its own. Its only "power" is to trick people into following its trail of associative thoughts that provide reasons why they should not do what needs to be done. But in spite of that... just start. Don't waste another minute thinking about the task that you don't want to do, and instead start doing what you don't want to do. If you will just start, you will discover that there is a part of you that not only will do what needs to be done, but will also actually enjoy doing it! Don't let resistance rule your life; just start and you will see for yourself that it has no real authority over you.

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