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Student Q&A with Guy on "Give Yourself a Complete Divine Makeover" (12/30/20)
Posted: Thursday, December 31, 2020
Meeting: Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Duration: 21min 22sec
Topics Covered
Who you really are is already complete.
There is a part of us that never ceases trying to complete itself through what it imagines will do it. That nature has an insatiable appetite that never stops feeding itself.
Trying to complete yourself through answering a fear does nothing but strengthen the fear that you will never be able to complete yourself unless conditions align in your favor.
There are ideas and principles that have been sown into this world that are not dependent upon conditions.
The very nature of wanting to belong to something outside of ourselves creates separation and therefore conflict. Nothing that we do to "belong" in that way can bring an end to the sense that something is missing.
Longing for something is the same as wanting to close the distance between us and the thing that we long for. We long to close the distance between ourselves and God. We cannot close that distance from the outside-in, by acquiring more possessions. The longing is intended to be fulfilled from the inside-out.
Does the acorn long to become an oak? The acorn longs to become the oak that already lives inside of it. The longing is fulfilled when the acorn gives up its acorn-life so that the potential of the oak can be realized.
Everything in creation is ceaselessly taking part in a complete Divine makeover. The capacity to see that fact allows us to be a part of that intelligence.
The divided level of consciousness derives its identity from what it perceives as being outside of itself. That mind imagines what it must have to be complete. Nothing that mind does can bring an end to the pain of being separated from life.
Everything is always in the right place, in the right time, according to an invisible divine plan that never ceases to complete itself.
Our task is not to make ourselves over, to recreate ourselves, through thought and imagination, but instead the task is to allow the unchanging light to reveal creation as it is ceaselessly changing. Answer the longing by allowing the moment reveal what needs to be surrendered.
The real point of awakening is to die to ourselves, not to recreate ourselves according to what the self thinks it should be.
What if everything is growing all at once? Even the whole of this world, and all the stars it wears as a crown?
So that not only are the trees, the leaves, the flowers and their bees growing individually, but they are growing together as one... in the light of a sun that grows with them.
And, as unlikely as it seems -- though invisible to the eye that beholds an ever-unfolding creation -- all are the outgrowth of an invisible light: the ceaseless revelation of a Timeless Love with no beginning or end.
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