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Student Q&A with Guy on "The Unimaginable Shelter of Higher Self-Understanding" (10/27/21)
Posted: Thursday, October 28, 2021
Meeting: Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Duration: 15min 36sec
Topics Covered
Our experience of life is intended to be an education so that we learn things we didn't know about ourselves the moment before.
If we meet life caught up in a stream of thought, then there is no chance of being open enough to receive impressions.
To see all there is means to be present to ourselves and unafraid because we stand in the shelter of the awareness that allows us to use these moments.
You can't gain wisdom without being willing to honestly observe yourself.
Running toward an imagined power is the same as running away from the feeling of being powerless.
We imagine powers we don't actually possess in order to give ourselves a temporary sense of security. We have agreed to live with a constant sense of uncertainty that prompts a search for security.
It is a lingering sense of inadequacy that compels us to try to become someone special.
The principal occupation of a divided mind is to always look outside of itself, through a thought or image, at a time to come so that it might find shelter from the storm of itself. We are complict with that level of consciousness that never stops creating a shelter in a time to come.
What is the one thing that all shelters created by the mind have in common? They all begin in imagination. These shelters are connected to us trying to become what we have imagined ourselves to be.
There is no certainty in the world outside of you.
When my mind, unattended, begins to look for a shelter, in that moment I'm being carried away by a consciousness dedicated to building psychological shelters unendingly.
The genuine shelter of the witnessing awareness within you sees that you are not the thing that you are afraid of, and that you are also not the "you" that fears it.
Who would you be without building shelters with your imagination? Find out.
Work to stand in the shelter of the light that reveals the whole of you to yourself.
We are not only creations, but also meant to participate in being creators.
You cannot help anybody without first being an example yourself.
Find a way to value wisdom more than you currently value what you want.
Ooh, a storm is threatening My very life today If I don't get some shelter Ooh yeah I'm gonna fade away
War, children It's just a shot away It's just a shot away
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin' Our streets today Burns like a red coal carpet Mad bull lost its way
Mmm, a flood is threatening My very life today Gimme, gimme shelter Or I'm gonna fade away
Fade away...
(Songwriters: Michael Phillip Jagger / Keith Richards)
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