We do not see what we fear; rather we feel what we think we see that frightens us. Until we see the actual face of our fear we will never know why we can't hope to escape it by running from it.
Topics covered: The vast majority of what we think about is driven by fear, only we don't notice it because we believe it to be the normal way to live; How many things do you not see because of fear? Because you are thinking about yourself? Thinking about yourself and fear go hand-in-hand; Fear drives all forms of self-judgment and judgment of others; Ask yourself: If I know that...
The wheat knows that it has chaff in it. The chaff thinks that it is pure wheat. The wheat seeks the threshing floor; while the chaff flies from it... believing that it knows the right direction to go, when in truth it is headed for oblivion.
Audio seminar presented by Guy Finley at Life of Learning Foundation. Key Lesson: It is the things we think ourselves to be that cause heartache and pain, for there is no such sorrow in the still, whole depths of who we really are.
A true human being is a "feeling" human being, not a "thinking" human being. Real life is an impersonal, complete feeling. We live in a stream of divine energy, and there is a difference between trying to be alive through thinking -- which produces the sensation of life -- and knowing that you are alive.
Who in his or her right mind believes -- even for a moment -- that the path to lasting contentment would be paved by continually thinking about everything that is seen as missing from one's life? Such a path may promise pleasure to come but its steps are spiked with discontentment. Let's look at what we must do to free ourselves from our discontentment and that ever-seeking, never-quite-satis...
To suffer needlessly – as in worry over what others think of you, or for trying to please negative states that can never know the peace they push you to seek – is the greatest waste there is. Such sorrow serves nothing save the self that glorifies darkness through its self-inflicted pain.
Classroom Talk: 5/21/2004 - We spend so much of our time thinking and re-thinking about how to succeed with our personal escape plans that -- for these same dreams of a freedom to come -- it never has a chance to dawn on us that our True Nature cannot be made a prisoner of anything!
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In this brief Q&A session, "Secret of Letting Go" author Guy Finley talks about bringing an end to the painful position of thinking that life owes us something, and what it would mean to have real gratitude.
Everyone wonders whether or not there is one great secret for truly successful living. There is. And it is not a secret. Listen quietly for a moment: everything can change right now. Learning to hear this supreme secret is no more difficult than choosing whether to swim against a current or to let it carry you safely to the shore. ~~~ Real change itself isn't found in some new way to think...
Any time we feign anything, we do so out of fear that without that "persona" to protect us--to make that impression we want--we won't get what we want. This whole way of thinking is secret self-sabotage. Your consideration of the two special insights that follow will start you down the path to a whole new kind of self-command.