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Guy Finley

Non-duality · Letting Go · Christian Mysticism

American author and founder-director of the Life of Learning Foundation, a nonprofit Center for Spiritual Discovery with locations in New Smyrna, Florida, and Merlin, Oregon.

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Guy Finley

Guy Finley is the founder and director of Life of Learning Foundation, a nonprofit Center for Spiritual Discovery with locations in New Smyrna, Florida, and Merlin, Oregon. For more than forty years he has worked with people around the world looking for inner freedom and a deeper, more satisfying way to live. He is the author of The Secret of Letting Go and more than forty-five further books and audio programs, which have sold millions of copies and appeared in thirty languages.

His teaching is direct, in-depth and notably down to earth, and it goes straight at the difficulties people actually meet: anxiety, fear, addiction, stress, the strain in relationships, and the question of what happiness truly rests on. Alongside these he speaks about awareness, higher consciousness, meditation and compassion. His work is widely endorsed by doctors, business professionals, public figures and religious leaders of all denominations. The Foundation's website carries a large body of his material, freely available to anyone.

“The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.”
Guy Finley
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14 min
Talk

Live Life Without Fear or Worry

A short talk to camera on how fear sustains itself through the mind's rehearsal of the future, and what happens when that rehearsal is seen rather than believed.

85 min
Talk

The Secret of Letting Go: How to Drop Fear, Worries, and Painful Regrets

A full-length livestreamed class on the theme of his best-known book: why the self that worries cannot be argued out of worrying, and what it means to drop it instead.

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The Secret of Letting Go | The Minimalists Ep. 512

Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus host Finley for a conversation on letting go as an inner act rather than a matter of getting rid of things.

Podcast52 min
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Non-duality

Direct contemplation of awareness, identity and the experience of separation.

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