Student Talks: 9/6/2024 - Key Lesson: As surely as planting a lemon seed will grow a tree full of lemons, so is the following true: any solution that begins with resisting (the pain of) some unwanted experience will not only prove itself fruitless, but always give birth to more of the same!
Have you ever gone through a crisis of some kind, and after 20 or 30 years of the same lesson coming back, you realize you have been walking along the same dark road? I know that it gets tough sometimes, but those of us who have any love whatsoever for what is true, good, and Divine should be encouraged. Because you have no idea what's on our side, how much is trying to be given to us at all times.
Classroom Talk: 4/20/2005 - It is impossible to learn the truth of anything that we resist, which means that as long as we refuse our own suffering we have no chance of ever uncovering the truth of the secret Goodness from which it arises.
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Remastered Classic Talk: 3/22/17 -
Part 1: Your possibilities in life for spiritual growth are as unlimited as is your willingness to consciously meet your limitations.
Part 2: Resisting the revelation of any one of your present limitations... is like resenting the ocean because you never learned how to swim!
Our True Self is not a person. It is a great spirit. And it is part of a ceaseless flow in which the idea of "good" and "bad" only exists because in that flow has been born a certain creature, given an imagination that has created a self in the name of itself. And there you have all of the problem. When you resist what life brings and don't accept it, all you're really doing is....
Guy Finley explains that you can never be free of anything you resist. In order to transcend any pain or problem, you must meet it completely, as you are, and accept what life is trying to give you so that you can grow into a new order of yourself.