The great sages throughout time have recognized that we are born with seeds of the soul, but they must be nurtured if they are to flower. We are not born perfect, but we are born with a potential beyond anything we can currently imagine. That potential is a gift, but to fulfill it requires effort. This need to put in […]

Q&A with Guy Finley Being renewed by love, and beginning your life all over again, are one and the same interior action. It starts with becoming aware of, and then bringing a conscious end to all lingering relationships you may have with old thoughts and feelings that want you to keep seeing your life through their eyes. The following Q&A […]

Of all the incredible emotions in the world, there is probably none that so easily turns us upside down and inside out — none so commanding and fascinating, all at once — as the power of love. Who doesn’t want to be overwhelmed by love and feel that incomparable excitement? Or enjoy the sense of belonging and purpose that only […]

There is a great intelligence in this universe that we are within, and that is within us. The other day I saw a segment on the popular television program 60 Minutes that showed some of the amazing images of our universe recently taken by the Hubble telescope. They show billions of stars and galaxies, in numbers beyond our comprehension. But […]

While the wounds of a loss are still fresh, it may seem impossible to see any good in it. But the loss can open our hearts to new understanding. As we can see every day, loss is a significant part of life. We all suffer losses, big and small. The question is, what is their meaning for us as individuals? […]

We can’t imagine there could be understanding and wisdom without thinking… and yet the true answers we seek can only be found in a realm above thought that’s connected to higher wisdom. Thinking, thinking, thinking. It’s what we do, day in and day out. We think about the past. We think about the future. We think about our problems and […]

Being alone holds beautiful possibilities for the person who is open to them. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but it’s hard not to these days: it seems like everyone is running everywhere, going places they’re ready to leave the moment they get there, spending time with people they may not even like that much, and constantly “hooking up” online […]

Everything we are is a reflection of greater powers than we can know, and our true strength comes in aligning ourselves with them. Pain is a universal condition. I’m talking about inner pain: depression, guilt, regret, anger — any of a thousand different negative emotions that tear us apart. Pain begins when life goes against our expectations and desires. Distress […]

By and large, at least for most of us, it seems very important that we appear strong in the eyes of others. That no one can push us around. That should we wish it… we have the power to pretty much take what we want. So we try to gather to ourselves the symbols of this “strength” that we imagine: […]

As we enter the holiday season, we celebrate the miracle of transformation as darkness begins to give way to the light. It’s a great turning, a change in direction, physically represented by the winter solstice, when (in the northern hemisphere) days stop growing shorter, and the hours of sunshine begin to increase. Every major religion acknowledges this celestial change, and […]