Classroom Talk: 2/6/2002 - See through this trick and triple your productivity: Those stressed parts of us always asking us how will we get everything done that needs to be done, especially when there is so much to do, are themselves incapable of doing anything other than wasting the precious energy we need to proceed... Even as they use these same forces to lend themselves a heightened but false sense of importance.
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In this answer to a viewer's question, "letting go" author Guy Finley dives deeply into the concepts of "joy and happiness," noting the important distinction between imagined "joy" and the kind of joy that is the natural outcome of life's authentic wholeness. Imagined joy turns into painful resistance to anything that interferes with the image. Seeing this with more and more clarity is freedom from the stressful compulsion to pursue an imagined happiness.
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Every creature in nature has work that nature has given them to do. They must do this work in order to survive. They have no choice, and their work doesn't end until their bodies pass. There is no stress or fear in what they are given to do. We as human beings also have work that we have been asked to do in this world, both practical and for the sake of spirit.
Currently, I am quite lost... among many issues, the loss of a loved one, marriage problems, and unrelenting stress at work. I seek guidance for a new way to see these "givens" in a better way. At times I have answers, but as more circumstances arise, I feel buried in the machination of events. I sense that the individual scenarios have a common denominator... I am just not able to see it. (Fr...
This is one of those special books that come around only once in a lifetime. Each page of this spiritual classic sparkles with self-empowering insights, encouraging ideas, and the all-but-forgotten Higher Principles that throw open the doors to the riches of your True Self. Just as bridges must be built between cultures and countries, so too must bridges be built to span the distance between...
At all times everything, everywhere, is unfolding as it must. Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view. In down-to-earth terms, to resent the person who cuts you off in traffic does nothing to change either that scary moment now passed, or the sleeping nature of...
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The quality of your life is determined by the level of your consciousness. You will learn the celestial secrets and gain the inspiration to raise your consciousness in To Touch the Timeless Mind.
As human beings we form relationships and then, when the form or dynamic of these relationships change, as they must, we blame these unwanted changes for our loss of peace. Such behavior is like getting mad at the wind that catches our hat and whisks it away. Our sense of lost peace, along with feeling the loss of one's freedom that was tied to it, has never had anything to do with peace with...
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Part 1: The more we anxiously look around for a way to deal with the fear of any moment imagined as yet to come, the more immediate grows the fear we experience in the here and now. Part 2: No condition, in and of itself, is ever the cause of psychological stress, fear, or regret; suffering of this kind is inherent in an unseen, unconscious level of "self" that resists changing conditions because it is incapable of changing with them.