Student Q&A with Guy on "How to Transform Your Greatest Weakness Into Your Greatest Strength" (8/10/22)
- The whole of spiritual work is to enter into a completely new relationship with yourself, a higher order of awareness that understands that what it sees is itself.
- The purpose of our lives is complete whenever we agree to make an intense effort at awareness of ourselves.
- Why is it that we have no awareness that we have a life until that life is taken away?
- Any form of resistance toward seeing any painful part of yourself ensures that it will remain in place.
- Nothing can change in your life until you uncover the seed of weakness within your consciousness and allow it to die.
- Judging yourself is one of the ways that the seed of any painful weakness hides itself.
- Our greatest weakness is that we don't want to be who/what we are in any given moment. The first knee-jerk reaction of the divided level of consciousness is to reject -- to NOT drink from -- the cup of revelation that is always available in every moment.
- We are addicted to a sense of self, which always manifests itself into a physical addiction.
- An addiction is a repetitive choice made by a part of us that does not want its weakness exposed.
- Running from or fighting with conditions steals from you the revelations that are built into the moment for the purpose of your liberation.
- Liberation lies within awareness of what has made you a captive. The antidote is in the venom.
- The divided consciousness believes that if it does not resist its weaknesses, then nothing will ever change. The real task is to cooperate with revelation, rather than pushing away what you see about yourself.
- The only thing that stops you from being changed is your own idea about what it means to change yourself.
- The task is not to imagine what you should become. The task is to be who you are right where you are. Die to the part of yourself that does not want to see yourself as you are.
- You must decide once and for all to be unconditionally honest with yourself. Refuse to shut your eyes to anything revealed about yourself.