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Student Q&A with Guy on "The Invisible Gift of Life that Never Stops Giving" (3/17/24)
Posted: Monday, March 18, 2024
Meeting: Sunday, March 17, 2024
Duration: 41min 19sec
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If you want to know why you don't have the kinds of impressions that change your life, it's because impressions don't come without humility. Humility is inseparable from true impressions.
A single impression can change the entire direction of a person's life. When there is an actual impression, it changes the nature of what it has impressed itself upon.
There are moments when, through an impression, you can feel yourself being drawn into something.
A lesson is only a real lesson when it changes the matter that absorbs the energy within that moment.
The impression of being a servant of your unconscious nature is the first impression, the first shock that begins the true transformation in your life.
Fall in love. That's the greatest gift that a human being can be given, which is to discover there is already a love in you that is beyond description.
In the mirror of the moment, we are always looking for what we want to see.
Impressions are always beyond any thought that can grasp them.
You are invited by the Divine to discover the Divine through the impressions you are given through life.
The purpose of every discovery is the revelation of an impression you couldn't get any other way. In a moment of an impression, "you" are not there.
There is something waiting for me if I will "drink from the cup." If I let the impression fully form I will be freer because of its passage through me.
If there is no awareness of the impression, there is no awareness of anything pressing upon one’s soul, and no new discovery in the depths of oneself.
A real impression is the instantaneous appearance of a sum that is greater than its parts. The impression can't be separated from a sudden alignment of all the parts of a human being involved in the moment: heart, mind, and body.
With a real impression, the observer and the observed are no longer apart.
Impressions are always being made upon us for the sake of educating us about something we don't yet know about within ourselves. Just because I'm not aware of it doesn't mean it isn't happening.
You don't know that the impression you're making is creating the reaction you're receiving, and then subsequently resist. You don't know that you've asked for your experience of life. Your conditioned nature takes the impression and returns the impression with a conditioned reaction.
If I'm not present to the impression, I've missed the present moment in which active and passive have been brought together into an integrated state so that out of that, something new can be born.
Every impression tells its own story. No human being has the same impression as another. The life of each person is always acted on by the light in a different way.
The hallmark of an impression is that it transcends thought. Which means a true impression transcends the thinker. That is part of the impression.
We've been deceived into thinking that impressions are to be judged. I think impressions are an invitation to judge what has pressed itself upon my life.
My experience of the moment is the impression of it, and the impression is the relationship between active and passive, between what is Divine and what is earthly.
What you are disturbed by can't be separated from the level of consciousness being disturbed. This is your hope, because now instead of scattering your energies you begin to gather them.
There is a reason for each moment, and it's not personal. There is no "bad" karma - there is just what draws to it what it requires by the Divine to be reconciled.
You have to meet fear, not let it talk to you. The only way you’ll meet it is face to face.
Exercise: Impression without identification. When the impression comes, just let it be there without "you" messing with it. Let it be pure. It will take you a lifetime or more before you get your fingers out of the impressions.
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