Student Talks: 6/12/2020 - Key Lesson: The truth is, we are never trapped by any experience. The painful experience of feeling trapped is the effect of the trap, not the trap itself. The mouse always blames the cheese...
The more we dwell on something in our life that we wish wasn’t so, the more we soak ourselves in negative energies created by our own resistance. The longer we soak, the more we suffer; the more we suffer...
Here is a new and true beginning you can start with today that will put you in the right place for leaving an old self-defeating choice behind you for good: Any time someone criticizes or corrects you, dare to go against your habitual urge to defend yourself. Instead of reacting with heated resistance to something you don't want to hear about yourself, just listen to what's being said.
Part I: Any "god" we go in search of to free us from our fear is a false god created by a false god. We must throw away all false gods and their prison of time into which we rush whenever we pursue powers. Instead we must learn to turn around within ourselves and face the first false god: the self that sends us out of ourselves to find freedom. There is no freedom outside of the Light...
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In this answer to a viewer's question, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley talks about owning your own attention for the purpose of observing the painful tendency to blame everything outside of yourself as the cause of whatever is disturbing you.
Question: When we fall, is it in the very moment we are falling -- or right after that falling experience -- that we must see the real reason why we did fall instead of blaming the entire environment as the reason we temporarily fell?
Most of us carry, buried in the depths of ourselves, untold amounts of unconscious woe. Regardless of our religion, skin color, social position, or cultural conditioning, psychological pain plays no favorites... and we all pay the price of the ensuing blame game.
Classroom Talk: 4/13/2005 - Evil transforms suffering into unconscious acts of blame, bitterness, and self-pity -- harmful forces that punish everyone; while the Good transforms these same dark states into conscious suffering -- creating humility that heals whomever it touches.
Classroom Talk: 4/13/2005 - Evil transforms suffering into unconscious acts of blame, bitterness, and self-pity -- harmful forces that punish everyone; while the Good transforms these same dark states into conscious suffering -- creating humility that heals whomever it touches.