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Student Q&A with Guy on "Realize Your Timeless Self and Reclaim the Gift of Perfect Peace" (12/9/20)
Posted: Friday, December 11, 2020
Meeting: Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Duration: 25min 51sec
Topics Covered
Because most people don't really understand the nature of time, they also don't know anything about timelessness.
As a result of imagining wholeness in a time to come, we resist everything in life that seems to get in the way of that imagined wholeness.
When we become identified with anything, we are at that point stalked and threatened by psychological time.
It is only a divided consciousness that believes it is separate from life and that thinks it will once again find wholeness in a time to come. This consciousness believes that "when" we get there, "then" we will be complete: a consciousness of "when" and "then."
The journey back to the Divine is not through time; the journey is from one mansion in the kingdom to a higher mansion that is already connected to the lower.
Every time we imagine wholeness we are disconnected from the wholeness that already is, and that is waiting to be revealed.
Inside the acorn already is the mighty oak tree; they are not separate, although they seem to be separated by time and space.
What we experience as events is the revelation of creation, the revelation of a timeless life that is unfolding within our consciousness.
The divided consciousness is always running after something in time in order to find some kind of timelessness. This results in an inescapable reincarnation that creates a circle of time, as well as a circle of self. What is timeless is aware of that time bound consciousness and is already free of that circle.
The journey to the Divine includes a departure from the idea that something good or bad is going to happen in a time to come.
We cannot escape the time we have made and, that in our unawareness, we continue to make; we can only die to its maker.
Like Alexander severing the Gordian Knot, we have to sever ourselves from the self that is always protecting itself by making plans to profit in a time to come. That level of self requires our energy in order to sustain itself. The sword that severs the knot is awareness of the illusion of a time to come.
Be completely present to the pain and thoughts that promise a future wholeness and peace.
What is not living requires something to be frustrated by in order to give it an endlessly temporary sense of life.
The consciousness that is stalked by time asked fearfully, "But what will happen to me if I stop serving this master called time?"
What we are looking for cannot be found with fear as our guide. We are the ones we have been waiting for. The Divine is not coming; that higher consciousness is already here.
The task is to discover where we have been deceived into serving the level of consciousness that is stuck in time.
Who and what we are cannot really lose anything; who we really are can only be given a new understanding, if we are willing to see it.
Nothing in this world comes AT us that isn't first coming FROM us.
Freedom will never be found along the horizontal line of time. Freedom is a vertical departure from the level of consciousness that operates under the illusion that freedom can be found in time.
We cannot escape the time we have made and, that in our unawareness, we continue to make; we can only die to its maker.
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