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Student Q&A with Guy on "Freedom From The Endless Voices of Painful Choices" (1/29/23)
Posted: Monday, January 30, 2023
Meeting: Sunday, January 29, 2023
Duration: 27min 32sec
Topics Covered
The unconscious mind tries to regain balance whenenver it registers a disturbance that interferes with its agenda.
The distractions we turn to in order to escape the feeling of emptiness are created by the consciousness that must fill itself in order to know itself.
Humanity's imagined heaven is the invention of a consciousness that is in hell.
If you are still anxious and afraid, then, if you are honest, you have to admit that you have not changed.
Wanting something in an attempt to complete yourself always comes with its opposite: something that you don't want. It is a consciousness divided, in conflict with itself.
There is another world that already exists that is not filled with endless voices and painful choices.
You cannot be delivered from what you don't want by running after what you do want. Because want and not-want are not separate things. They always come together.
You cannot serve two masters, for you will say "Yes" to one and "No" to the other. "Yes" does not exist without "No."
The fabric of society is built upon the opposites: one side that always despises and opposes the other.
Between the reaction and the identification with it (which produces an identity) is an awareness that observes the reaction and the consciousness that would identify with it.
Silent sight, holy sight, the ground of all that is bright and right.
Promises and punishment are the same thing and appear together at the level of consciousness that promises an end to punishment, a pursuit which leads to more punishment and more promises.
Revelation of the consciousness in conflict between the opposites changes your relationship to that consciousness.
"Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven," that which can observe the consciousness that seeks to fulfill itself through escape from emptiness.
You cannot reach an end to disturbances in this life. You can, however, change your relationship to what you now perceive as a disturbance, where the disturbance is instead used for revelation, which is its original purpose.
Rushing is an attempt to get away from one opposite to get to the other.
Be the observer and therefore the student of your consciousness instead of serving it unconsciously.
Somewhere between either/or Just beyond "yes and no"... There is a door. Seek it; find it! Dare to abide there long enough And it opens all by itself... Behold! A whole new world Brimming with bright possibilities Unimaginable a heartbeat before.
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