Defensiveness

We cannot excuse our way into peace of mind. It is impossible to excuse our way into having peace. If we let an excuse, or a justification, or an explanation become our guide in the moment we do something unkind, then we will never enter into this new level of being where the strength that we seek, and long to participate in, awaits us.

Sometimes the touch of Grace is sweet; sometimes it seems bitter, hard to bear; yet, whatever its measure, this much is true: it always strengthens those who will agree to stand in its Living Light, allowing it to reveal, and release them from what they've yet to realize is true about themselves.

Every time you get negative, you drain from yourself something vital to the development of your soul. But every time you catch yourself in those dark waters that carry you away, you add something to your development by working to understand them. The source of those dark, raging waters is an illusion. It is the illusion that is part and parcel with the present activity of your mind...

In this answer to a viewer's question, Guy explains that setting so-called "boundaries" for yourself is the same as rejecting what the moment would reveal to you about yourself. There is no need to psychologically protect yourself using thought. Conscious awareness of yourself is what offers perfect safety.

Topic: End this Unseen Painful Relationship with Dark States and Watch Them Disappear (Classroom Talk 7/10/24)

Topics covered: Part of the purpose of a true school is to continually bring in front of your mind that which it does not want to encounter; We are convinced that we have to do something in order to free ourselves from negative states. The temptation to do something is suggested by the level of the negative state; Nothing can be healed in you until it is revealed in you; Something in us does not want a wrong relationship to change out of fear that...

Classroom Talk: 7/10/2024 - What awakens you is not what shakes you in that moment; the light by which you see anything dark within yourself comes from above the conflicted, lower level of self it serves to reveal... and heal.