Until we learn the one Great Lesson that what we want from life must play a secondary role to what Life asks of us -- which is to grow in the timeless qualities of selflessness such as self-sacrifice, kindness, and love -- then we will remain unable to share in the abiding sense of peace and freedom that comes to us only as we realize the true purpose of our being.

In this Saturday discussion Guy exposes the life lived from a divided mind and the suffering that ensues. A mind apart from the reality we see doesn't know it perceives through its own senses and that there is more to life than what we sense. What we really want in our heart of hearts is to be at peace.

Our peace isn't stolen; we give it away each time we are drawn into trying to solve a problem that didn't exist until the mind made it appear.

Part I: We are subjected to the unconscious pain of any negative state that we refuse to make the subject of our own conscious self-study. Part II: Peace can never be obtained by conquering fear but only in seeing that there is nothing one can possess that will gently hold the mind still or fill the heart with grace.

The only thing we really "win" in any temporary victory over life, that's paid for by agreeing to be angry, aggressive, or otherwise ache, is this dark and unseen guarantee: We will live to fight another day but, for this personal "prize," lose -- little by little -- the possibility of ever knowing a true and eternal peace.

Believing that one of the many quarrelsome and competing parts at work within yourself can show you the way to a peaceful state of being is like hoping that you can find a quiet moment for yourself while walking along side a brass marching band!...

Part I: It is not silence that quiets the mind being tormented by its own runaway fragmented thinking, it is the love of silence that both heralds the coming of Peace and that stills the soul whom it wraps in its Perfect Wholeness. Part II: When you reach out a hand toward a mirror before you, the hand in that mirror may be seen reaching out for you. So it is with the hand of G...

Topics covered: The last thing your mind wants is peace. The only thing that keeps you from understanding the real peace of Heaven is what you do not yet understand about yourself; The peace of Heaven is a "time and place" without "you" in it. It is not a time and place "you" are going to reach and be applauded when you get there; What is the most rare form of self-knowledge?

Topics covered: The keys to the peace that passes all understanding cannot be found with thought; Peace for people now is predicated upon whether or not they get what they want; Real peace is found in a conscious relationship with life, a life that is greater than the sum of its parts; When you truly understand the nature of real peace, it can never be taken from you. The mind's idea of...

Remastered Classic Talk: 07/27/16 - Spiritually speaking, as a required agreement essential in facilitating one's rebirth, one must learn what it means to be at peace with suffering the level of oneself that can never know the peace it seeks.

 

In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley explains that you would not clash with life -- nor with yourself -- if you did not first cling to imagined ideas about peace and prosperity. Freedom from this conflict begins with witnessing the unfolding of this dynamic within yourself.

Topic: Enter the Place of Perfect Peace Within You (Classroom Talk 3/16/22)