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Enlightening articles by Guy Finley on a wide range of topics address practical life issues and deepen your spiritual understanding.
Short but powerful quotes by Guy Finley will inspire you throughout your day.
Heartfelt inner-life questions from people around the world, and Guy’s enlightening answers, will shed light on your own issues.
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Shop eCoursesThere is a very distinct reason why the work of remembering oneself serves as the very foundation, the heart of spiritual self-liberation.
It is very easy for us to forget what it is that we want from life. For instance, one can have an all-consuming desire to acquire some trinket or toy, or even a new relationship that -- "this time" -- will bring an end to one's loneliness. But as we have all seen, wants of this order are easily replaced by whatever the new want is of the moment... and as moments change, so go our wants. The nature of desire at this level of consciousness cares little for the individual things that stimulate the self; what really matters to this "self" is the stimulation itself, pure and simple.
However, when we need something it's a different story.
We all understand the need for the essential elements of life: we must have air, water, food, and impressions. Without these things in their allotted time, we will perish. It could also be stated that the need for such realities proves the existence of the thing needed. For example, how could one need water as one does (in order to sustain the physical organism) if water didn't exist for just that purpose?
These examples of physical need are easy to see as being vital and necessary to the well being of our body. But there is another order of need, one that is not a requirement for the sustenance of a physical nature, or even for psychological being. This other order of need is awakened within an individual whenever he or she sees that -- due to the influence of something unseen within them -- they have in some way harmed themselves or another…and uselessly, at that.
It is only once we begin to realize that within us exists a world that in many ways seems set against itself that we begin to have the authentic need to be present to ourselves so as not to participate -- no longer mindlessly identify and give life to -- that which is antithetical to our need to know and be a part of what is Loving, Good, and Kind. And it is with the birth of this same need -- to know the truth of oneself, to be aware of where one is in the involuntary service of something that serves nothing but the negative -- that one begins to have a genuine need to remember the whole of oneself; a living wish to be in and a part of that Divine Light that has now revealed to us our growing need for its abiding presence and protection.
Many, many people today believe there is nothing for them to do other than to just think about themselves through the truths they have been taught and parrot, and their passport to heaven is assured. Such thinking is not only their undoing, but it is also the secret slayer of their authentic but sleeping need to remain awake, to remember the truth of themselves whatever form that takes in the given moment.
Awakening the Need to Remember Yourself (Blog)
Posted by Guy Finley in 459 Galice Road, Merlin, OR 97532 on , and updated on .
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 go 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.
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