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Student Q&A with Guy on "Shatter the Unseen Mirror of Fear and Sorrow Called 'Self-Love'" (7/11/21)
Posted: Monday, July 12, 2021
Meeting: Sunday, July 11, 2021
Duration: 23min 31sec
Topics Covered
In the same way we derive an identity from our possessions, we derive an identity about the qualities and characteristics we imagine about ourselves. That mind becomes dependent upon its own images.
Everything requires contrast in order to understand the consciousness that created it, and to ultimately transcend it into a love that doesn't compromise itself.
Everything about the world is dedicated to getting you to believe that you are who you imagine yourself to be.
Self-love is the source of hatred. People avoid and hate anything that exposes secret self-love.
When you are free of self-love you will never again be deceived by flattery.
Part of the gift of being a creation of the divine is that some of that power is put in us, and we are able to take that power and put it to use in the world. However, we forget that we are first creations, and that we wouldn't be able to create without the creator.
No possession is able to free us from serving the images that we have of ourselves. In fact, just the opposite. We live in service to the very thing we think will free us.
The more you feed self-love, the more that it wants. The very consciousness that sets out to complete itself strengthens the illusion that something is missing.
The truth when spoken and delivered sincerely is a shaft of light from above, a consciousness that exists ahead of us to show that we are already whole.
The illusion, especially in disappointing moments, is that somewhere, just ahead waits something newer and truer for us to love that will end the suffering of today.
The love of what "may yet be" -- any hope in "things seen" -- belongs to a lower level of consciousness that is the seed of sorrow itself. It is the birthing ground of a fear-filled belief that Love is to be found in some "tomorrow."
"Hope in things seen" is the same as the hope in a "me." "Hope in things unseen" means that there can be no hope in a "me."
Judging yourself or others is a hidden form of self-love. Complaining is also secret self-love.
When light begins to collapse your kingdom of self-love, you don't have to do anything... let it collapse.
This divided level of consciousness does not care what it does against itself.
The belief that you should be other than what you are is self-love.
Needing the validation of any other human being is the same as being that person's slave.
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