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Classroom Talk: 8/4/2019 - The body can be disciplined. The mind should be trained. But, spiritual realization requires that one's wild heart be surrendered.
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In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how we are not intended to manipulate or control everything that we see within ourselves. We are instead intended to watch and witness what is being revealed so that a higher kind of reconciling force can act upon what has been disturbed within us.
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Guy Finley explains in this brief talk that the wish to run away from psychological pain prevents us from being the true explorers of our lives that we are meant to be.
There is nothing in the universe with the power to hold the human mind in painful captivity except for the cage it builds for itself out of its own mistaken thinking.
The one who dares to go beyond what he thinks he can do will always meet a point where he has a choice to either return from where he has just come, or to remain where he is...in a world where he is without power. And yet, if he will only linger there long enough, if only he will stay true to his wish to be (made) new -- he will be given whatever power he needs to succeed where he is, a powe...
If you are tired of falling prey to the same old negative reactions, the following spiritual facts can help free you:
Before we are truly free to stop and "smell the roses" -- to know and to share in the beauty of what is Timeless and True -- we must first learn what it means to stop and "see" the neurosis... and then step out of the dream of this lower nature within whose dark realm we sleep.
There is a way past this part of yourself that would rather hold on than get out. However, to really let go of these fears, we must first go through them. *** The only thing you lose when you let go of something you are afraid to live without is the fear itself. *** Real freedom is the absence of the self that feels trapped, not the trappings that self acquires to make it feel free. ***...
Part 1 We always seem so willing to sacrifice ourselves in order to fulfill some desire, and yet it is almost unheard of for us to sacrifice a desire for the sake of our Self. Part 2 The sorrow of man is that he is only free from his hunger when he eats.
It's a simple, beautiful truth: Resentment hurts. Forgiveness heals. In all cases. No matter what. The problem is that sometimes it's really hard to forgive. There is a part of our mind that loves to hold on to painful thoughts and feelings -- even though they aren't good for us. It's not our fault that our minds have been conditioned to work this way, but now that we know what's g...