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The only thing a thousand failed attempts to find the peace we seek proves is this: some unknown part of us -- we've mistaken as being us -- keeps us looking in all the wrong places! This is why we must have new, true self-knowledge, because the journey to silent joy begins within us, or not at all.
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Classroom Talk: 9/22/2023 - To be identified with even the most elegant description of the Divine is to prolong the suffering born of being separated from Its Light: there is more joy in a single drop of water on the tongue of a man in the desert than will ever be found in a whole library of books on the nature of streams, rivers, and the raindrops that fall to fill them.
The pleasures we give ourselves always fade and leave us wanting more. How can we find a deeper, more lasting sense of joy? In 3 powerful talks Guy will reveal the true source of joy and the steps to finding it for ourselves.
Fall is nature's preparation for regeneration, and we too should use this time to release anything left hanging over.
Topics covered: We believe that thought is somehow one and the same as who we are, but that could not be further from the truth; In taking thought, everything about our relationship with the present moment is divided; "We do not have to understand new things, but by dint of patience, effort and method to come to understand with our whole self the truths which are evident." -- Simone Weil
In this High Holiday Season, so full of self-created gratification, we should never forget that hidden in the shadow of all passing pleasures dwells their unseen opposite, some form of sorrow that -- sooner or later -- must visit the unwary soul. Yet... for our striving to remember this inescapable fact of life, born in us is this bright new understanding: lasting joy is found only in the real...
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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.
Topics covered: Real joy is connected to a new kind of willingness to participate in what we could call "Divine Being"; The consciousness that dreams about greatness does not know anything about true greatness; Everything that the mind thinks is greatness is a poor substitue for the timeless greatness that has already been prepared for you; The joy of being useful is about understanding your role...
Topics covered: We can have a completely different kind of life; Real joy is only found when we at last begin to suspect that the world's ideas of joy are conditional and subject to passing time; Experiences that we create for ourselves are based in a set of conditions that, under law, will change; What it means to experience creation itself and our role and place in this broader life.
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Classroom Talk: 9/24/2023 - True joy is uncalled for; it is like a breeze you didn't know you were waiting for; a silence that speaks of things eternal; (it is) to experience and realize the completion of something within you that you didn't even know was missing.
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