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Student Q&A with Guy on "How to Find and Fulfill Your Divine Destiny" (1/20/21)
Posted: Friday, January 22, 2021
Meeting: Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Duration: 27min 57sec
Topics Covered
There is no real authority outside of your relationship with the Divine.
A longing for the Divine is the need to close the distance between yourself and the Divine.
It is impossible to complete ourselves as we imagine in the world of passing time.
Time turns worldly ambitions into pain. "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you."
Any authority that we live under that causes pain and suffering is a false authority. We have made authorities out of everyone and everything outside of ourselves. These outer authorities do not and cannot free us, but instead they make us more of a captive with each and every command that we blindly follow.
We can't complete ourselves with thought, which is the engine of this world. We imagine, through the use of thought, what it means to be complete, which is the very action that separates us from real life.
Our possibilities have been given to us as a gift. We are also given what we need to fulfill those possibilities. The fulfillment of our possibilities is what our true destiny is.
The very longing to understand is coming from a part of us that already does understand. The answers that we have been looking for are in us already. Within us already exists the fulfillment of our destiny.
Every gift we receive from the Divine is a hint of the nature of the Giver.
"I am the Vine and ye are the branches." The greater gives birth to the lesser. Whatever appears in time comes from what is invisible and timeless.
Who and what we are awaits us in another order of time. Faith is the ability to see the fact of this in scale.
A moment of seeing and feeling real beauty transcends thought.
A human being who is awakening does not need belief because their very being itself is a gift that is connected to what is real and eternal and already complete.
See and feel the depth of what you are looking at. The world is dedicated to seeing that human beings no longer have any relationship to the depth of anything real. Consciously explore the depth of every kind of state that passes through you. As an exercise, practice feeling the depth of what you see.
We don't presently see, instead we think. And thinking will never be connected to being.
Fear belongs to time. Fear belongs to people trying to take something from this world, instead of understanding that they have already been given everything they need to fulfill their destiny.
There is nothing more shallow than an identity derived from a negative reaction.
We can't have a belief without an image, and the image itself contains false consolation and creates a dependency on an authority outside of ourselves.
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