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In this short talk, Guy Finley explains that the state being uncertain is not a problem to our true nature. Instead it is a path that will lead to true certainty if we will keep walking to the very end.
The cause of confusion and unhappiness lies in all the self-centered, touchy parts of us that insist, one after the other, that the world conform to their demands.
The answer to every question is hidden right within the event itself that gives rise to that question, and never is this truth more important for us to realize than when we find ourselves asking ourselves why are we in the pain that we are?...
Never let a negative thought or feeling convince you that it has your best interests at heart. What any conflicted state of self really wants is entrance into your heart from where, once entrenched, it can continue to compromise you by issuing its dark commands uncontested.
Topics covered: We're created with the capacity to understand that we are part of a higher order that is always asking us to outgrow who and what we have been; We need a new understanding of order, and the purpose of a true school is to introduce men and women to what higher order is; Real beauty is incomparable, which means that there is no "you" there analyzing what is being observed. In fact, in those moments there is no separation between the observer and the observed.
Using anxious thoughts to resolve confused feelings is like using a jackhammer to untangle a knot in your shoelaces.
Each time we feel an emotional pain, we should use that as a signal that we've made a mistake, that we've crashed and now need to find and try another new way. The problem for most of us is that we rarely allow ourselves to learn in this way. We have hundreds of experiences each day in which our expectations crash into reality. Whenever this happens, we have a close encounter of the truthful...
The true test of our actual level of understanding is how we respond to those moments in life when we don't understand why life unfolds as it does.
Uncertainty is unwanted because it feels so unpleasant each time it appears in our lives. But, can we be awake enough to see its positively bright side? For as surely as darkness must come before the break of a new day, so it's true: before the new light of higher understanding can have its gentle dawn in us -- we must see that we have come to the end of what we know.