Guy Finley explains that we always give our attention to what we value most. We can't "look" for the path to the Divine. The path is right here, right now. Our work is to attend and "listen" for the Divine, moment to moment. That is the true path to peace and freedom.
Topics covered: The degree to which you see the truth of yourself is the degree to which you will be a free human being; It is in the revelation of your limitations that you are set free from identification with those limitations; Only human beings, no other creature, can decide for themselves what they give their attention to; It is impossible to see that Life is always changing until we agree to let Life change us as well...
The present level of mind that we are experiencing on this planet today does not have command of its own attention. The world you see around you is being created by a level of desire that creates the conditions that it needs to flourish. It creates outwardly what it needs to sustain a consistent denial of the divine. The problem is that we think that somehow we were the ones who created this l...
In this podcast, Guy Finley talks about how something is always growing within us, but just like any garden that produces real physical food, what grows in our interior life all depends upon what we give our attention to in the moment.
Our current nature thinks it can add something to Life. When we see a beautiful scene in nature, or hear glorious music, we know that there is no need to add one thing to it. Our task is to discover that all we will ever need is already within us right now, and that to do what I am doing with my full attention is to be connected to the present moment that is a living Wholeness.
Topics Covered: When it comes to taking sides on controversial issues, we want to be for something that sits above the two; You will never get over inferiority by seeking superiority; Attention is developed to allow you to remain in higher interior ground; Understanding (with a capital U) is Freedom; We suffer from spiritual shortsightedness; Thought is the instrument of a level of desire; A s...
Here's a short exercise to help you see the following fact: There's a way to know, without ever having to think about it, exactly which of your own thoughts and feelings are your friends, and which are foes.
Resistance to a condition only exacerbates it; Resistance is always a form of unconscious insistence before it appears; Cause and effect are not separate; Intertwined and overlapping fields of energy; Listening is learning to use your attention without direction; Every line in the field of thought belongs to the past; Something never stops talking to you about what it...