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In this answer to a viewer's question, self-realization author Guy Finley talks about how our own questions about what to do about the anxiety we feel actually perpetuates the very anxiety that we want to get rid of.
Classroom Talk: 11/26/2003 - It isn't until the ground drops out from beneath us for the hundredth time that we suddenly realize falling down is not our only option. Faintly, but surely, if we will listen, another Law in our own nature calls us to realize its power: we can catch, suspend, and drop our own weighted reactions. And so it goes that we slowly learn to take wing.
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Topics covered: Attempting to save yourself is the same as imagining about a better time to come; There is no such self that goes by your name that can do the good, which you then punish yourself for not being able to do; You never sincerely ask the question "Why am I afraid?" Instead, you are given answers as to what the source of the fear is outside of yourself.
Classroom Talk: 11/15/2002 - Unseen by us, but with real enough effect upon us, is that our constant internal commentary about the conditions going on around us surrounds us; wrapping us up as in a blanket (of thought) that seems comforting to us for its familiar weave and pattern, but whose ever-shrinking fabric secretly covers up and smothers all that might be seen anew about life.
Learn what it means to let life shape you -- let God shape your life, your soul -- until you're in direct relationship with life.
In this short video, Guy Finley talks about the necessity of remaining as conscious as possible to any kind of inner psychological pain in the moment that it appears. Guy explains that, in spite of us believing that we do not want the pain, something within us will not let go. Our work is to find out what it is that seems dedicated to holding on.
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Topics covered: Spiritually speaking, the very action of looking for something often separates you from what you are looking for; We live in a world that exceeds our understanding of it; If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Can there be a sound without an ear to hear it? And can there be hearing without the awareness of it?
Classroom Talk: 3/21/2003 - Until each of us realizes that Individual and Spiritual part of ourselves by whose Light we know it is enough just to be who and what we are -- that shows us everything we will ever need to be quietly content is already provided for us -- not only will the personal peace for which we long keep slipping from our grasp, but our world will continue to find that Real Peace remains just beyond its reach.
Just as it is impossible for a ship to drop anchor and then leave port while still being chained to the bottom of the sea, so is it impossible for us to cling to our regrets in life and be able to move on from there at the same time.
Do you ever feel like something is holding you back from saying what you want, doing what you want -- from just being yourself? Are you tired of feeling as though your highest aspirations have been tucked away into a little box, when you know that your heart and mind are meant to soar? If so, then you're right where you need to be to break free of everything that's holding you back...
Classroom Talk: 4/25/2003 - Just as we know that we're responsible when a thief steals our car because we left it unattended with the keys in the ignition, so should we realize that we have no one else to blame for how bad we feel whenever we permit negative states to steal into our heart and drive off with it!