Fear -- or any negative state that persists as a power to punish us is the inevitable result of believing that we are something that we are not. Once we see the definitive link between the fear, worry, or anger we feel, and the particular false sense of self that doesn't exist without these punishing states, our choice becomes clear: Either we agree to live with these negative states, eve...
Topics covered: An awakened individual represents for us the possibility of an entirely different order of existence; You can't wait to make something of yourself. That is the reason for all of the planning and hoping and dreaming; The problem is that we live in a consciousness that has made a world in its own image; The problem with life's changes is that they do not agree with the static images that we identify with.
In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about a new understanding of ourselves that will put an end to unconscious suffering... if we will remember to put it into practice.
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Remastered Classic Talk: 2/15/17 -
Part 1: Behind every expectation that we have for how we should be treated by others lurks the inevitable sense of feeling betrayed by them any time they fail to hit their assigned mark. Behind this disappointment in their character or demeanor -- in fact, its partner in this kind of discrimination -- dwells an unseen sense of righteousness based on a false assumption that we are nothing like what we are so easily moved to judge.
Part 2: It's always the right time to discover something new and true about our present level of being, even if, in that same moment, what we uncover seems altogether wrong.
The difference between being angry with ourselves, or at someone else, is found only in the image held in our mind at which we lash out. Either way, the effect of this unconscious fire in us is always the same: It is we who get burned!...
Fear -- any negative state that persists as a power to punish us -- is the inevitable result of believing that we are something that we are not. Once we see the definitive link between the fear, worry, or anger we feel, and the particular false sense of self that doesn't exist without these punishing states, our choice becomes clear: Either we agree to live with these negative states, ever s...
In any relationship . . . the one who is hurt most by the absence of compassion is the one in whom compassion is absent.
Life is not "equal opportunity." It never has been, and never will be. That is the nature of this world, and resenting the reality of it does nothing but destroy those filled with such anger. However...
The unseen contradiction in hating any given moment of life is that what we actually hate in such a moment is the way that we have consented to feel about it.