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In this short clip, Guy Finley mentions a key point that needs to be realized about our minds when there is any kind of interior dialog taking place.
The purpose of any true interior practice is not to help us do or achieve something in the world that will make our future a brighter one, but to help us see something now about our present level of being.
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Guy Finley explains that each of us is a unique blend of energies, both positive and negative, all of which are meant to be used for the purpose of self-revelation.
We cannot help but increase our inner efforts as it becomes clear to us that our spiritual sleep is driving us nowhere.
Guy Finley talks about the nature within us that seeks to condemn us even as it excuses what "it" has done. Whenever we are able to observe these two opposites simultaneously, a third force is awakened. This third force, which is higher awareness, holds the opposites and is perfect reconciliation.
When you know what it means to be in relationship with Goodness, you never feel bad. Unhappiness, anger, fear, anxiety -- negative states -- cannot make a home in you when you know what it means to be in relationship with what is Good. If we understand this properly, it strips away all of the justification we have for being unpleasant. Our work is as simple as this: *to see and to be what we...
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In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how stillness cannot be brought about by any kind of will of our own, but that a real relationship with stillness is established by becoming aware of the division that is created by our own mind's willfulness.
Guy Finley talks about how we can begin to recognize the taste of negative states and realize that they have no right to take root in our hearts.
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Guy Finley talks about how we have a nature within us that is constantly in motion, but yet never actually goes anywhere because all it can do is move from one incomplete idea to another.
When it comes to fear, anxiety or any other kind of negative state, we can learn to observe and bear the state that is being revealed so that a new understanding of the moment can begin to dawn within us.
Guy Finley talks about how to discern the difference between thought that is practical and useful, versus thought that is unconscious and hurtful.