302. Guy Finley

Best-selling “Letting Go” author Guy Finley’s encouraging and accessible message is one of the true bright lights in our world today. His ideas cut straight to the heart of our most important personal and social issues – relationships, success, addiction, stress, peace, happiness, freedom – and lead the way to a higher life.

Finley is the acclaimed author of The Secret of Your Immortal Self: Key Lessons for Realizing the Divinity Withinand more than 40 other books and audio albums (plus over 1,000 unique audio programs) that have sold millions of copies in 24 languages worldwide.

His syndicated weekly radio program is aired on several international networks including Healthy Life Radio, Achieve Radio, Sedona Talk Radio, and Healthlife.net. Guy is a faculty member at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York and is a regular expert contributor to Beliefnet.com, the Huffington Post and many other journals.

Guy is the founder and director of Life of Learning Foundation, the renowned non-profit Center for Self-study in Merlin, Oregon where he offers four inner-life classes each open to the public.

• www.guyfinley.org
• www.guyfinleynow.org
• www.onejourney.net
• Facebook Page
• Free MP3 Audio Album – Seven Steps to Oneness: Journey to a Whole New Life

More books:

• The Meaning of Life(audio album)
• Life Is Real Only When You Are CD Album(audio album)
• The Essential Laws of Fearless Living: Find the Power to Never Feel Powerless Again
• Let Go and Live in the Now: Awaken the Peace, Power, and Happiness in Your Heart
• The Intimate Enemy: Winning the War Within Yourself
• The Lost Secrets of Prayer: Practices for Self-Awakening
• Design Your Destiny: Shape Your Future in 12 Easy Steps
• 365 Days to Let Go: Daily Insights to Change Your Life
• The Courage to Be Free: Discover Your Original Fearless Self
• The Seeker, the Search, the Sacred: Journey to the Greatness Within

Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded 8/8/2015

YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
• 00:04:47 – Growing up in Hollywood with the In-Crowd
• 00:09:12 – The Bonsai Tree Experience and the Revelation of Self
• 00:13:20 – The Journey of Self-Discovery
• 00:18:02 – Milestones on the Path of Self-Realization
• 00:22:42 – The Foundation Must Be Laid
• 00:27:19 – Discovering Truth Within Myself
• 00:31:37 – The Value of Heartbreak and Resistance
• 00:35:56 – The Importance of Patience and Tolerance
• 00:40:15 – The Intelligence of Awareness
• 00:45:06 – Seeing the Celestial in the Common
• 00:49:54 – Seeing Life in a Different Way
• 00:54:36 – Resistance and Negative States
• 00:59:28 – Recognizing and dealing with negativity
• 01:04:16 – The Practice of Purifying the Nadis and Energetic Patterns
• 01:08:52 – Seeing through the Illusion of Self
• 01:13:38 – The Benefits of Meditation and Alignment
• 01:18:15 – The Interface between the Subtle and the Gross
• 01:22:51 – Useless Suffering vs Voluntary Suffering
• 01:27:11 – The Tipping Point of Consciousness
• 01:31:24 – The Interpretation of the Trinity
• 01:35:57 – Understanding the Cycle of Happiness and Unhappiness
• 01:40:09 – Transcending Conditions and Finding Freedom
• 01:43:45 – The Contradictions of Self-Worth and Identity
• 01:47:25 – Transformation from Pursuit to Presence
• 01:50:45 – The Universe Revealing Its Consciousness
• 01:54:38 – Discovering Your Infinite Potential
• 01:57:45 – The Metaphor of a Line in Air
• 02:00:17 – The Search for the Sacred
• 02:03:01 – A Conversation with Gary Renard
• 02:04:59 – Prolific Work and Reasonable Prices