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Student Q&A with Guy on "Step Out of Time into the Holy Space of a Timeless Place" (02/16/25)
Posted: Monday, February 17, 2025
Meeting: Sunday, February 16, 2025
Duration: 32min 16sec
Topics Covered
Whenever are carried away by a fear, regret, worry, or any other negative state, we are being swept away by the past. We are swept away by the past because, presently, we live in its realm.
Within the realm of the past are all of the imaginings of better a time to come.
We see the present moment we are in through the shadow of the past. We see the present moment through the eyes of the past.
What seems like a miracle in one world is a natural law in another, higher world.
We want to believe in miracles because a miracle in our favor would mean that we do not have to do our own interior work.
Higher teachings are an invitation to see and explore the kingdom of what you are now, to participate in a timeless order of being that is inaccessible by mere knowledge. A new mind is required: metanoia.
The new mind spans the countries of Then and When, and because it is aware of both, it is not carried away by them. The country of Then does not exist without the land of When. The past and the future are not separate at all.
The past does not exist apart from an unconscious nature that imagines a future that will complete it.
The affairs of this world are the effect of a consciousness that is never satisfied with the world it is living in, trying to change its experience.
There is no psychological fear without measurement, comparison and judgment, which is the past. The past is the mind revisiting its own content.
The conflict we are in belongs to a nature that is the father of the past and the future. It runs away to be free from the past, and it is anxious to arrive at the future so that it doesn't have to repeat the past.
Negativity is the consciousness imagining a way to escape the content of itself.
The pain of the past is the promise of the future. They are one and the same thing. When you are aware of both, you are not carried away by the pain and the promise.
When it is understood that there is no such thing as a time to come, then at that moment you are released from the idea that you have to save yourself and fix everything that is wrong.
The constriction of a stressful moment is the result of comparison.
That which can see opposing forces is greater than those opposing forces. Our relationship with the higher part of ourselves that can see, is what it means to be watchful.
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