Learn to exchange resistance to unwanted moments for being receptive to the lessons they bring with them, and soon you will rule not only yourself, but the universe itself.
Guy Finley explains that our true purpose in life is connected to the part of us that is always present and connected to a higher intelligence that always goes before us to place our existence into its proper context.
Classroom Talk: 6/8/2005 - We must never forget that what we are given to do in any difficult moment -- for better or for worse -- begins with some part of us acting out what it has remembered to do. This means that if we ever hope to be consistent and true with what we do in moments of tribulation, then a whole new order of memory must first be established within us.
Student Talks: 2/9/2024 - Key Lesson: If you are among the chosen few, the Almighty will prove your pride to be pointless; but, if you're among the truly fortunate ones -- who choose to be chosen -- you will be forever thankful to the Divine for showing you the truth of this unthinkable revelation.
Topics Covered: We throw ourselves, of our own free will, into a prison of feeling powerless. The fear of being powerless is self induced; We all suffer from POUR Syndrome: "Prisoner Of Unconscious Resistance/Reactions"; Humanity is the evidence that there is no peace in a "time to come"; All pursuit of power in order to be free only empowers what is powerless within us...
Classroom Talk: 11/14/2004 - The thing so intoxicating about our thoughts is that we are forever distilling them from the content of ourselves, never realizing that the gilded cup from which we drink can never hold anything in it but a measure of our own past.
Understood properly, any moment of defeat in life is the same as being introduced to the possibility of transcending that level of self that leads us to compromise ourselves in the first place.
We are at our core a creature of the stars: beings whose original and celestial stuff is not only born of light, but also intended to live unbound.
The body can be disciplined. The mind should be trained. But, spiritual realization requires that one's wild heart be surrendered.