Student Q&A with Guy on "Dismiss Any Dark Thought or Feeling with Just Three Words" (5/8/24)

You have one problem in life, which is what you don't know about yourself, exacerbated by a part of you that doesn't want to know anything.

It is impossible to wish for true revelation and ask to see the truth of yourself without being given the truth you've asked to see.

What we are always thinking about is, "How do I reconcile this disturbance I feel right now?" It's the endless quest of a runaway mind.

I never know that my mind is always engaged, because I'm so identified with the stream of sensation produced by endless thinking.

The "I" that gets disturbed in a moment literally appears out of the problem itself.

That "I" is an unconscious nature that is stuck in an endless, useless attempt to resolve the distance between what is happening and what it believes should be happening.

The experience of any moment is inseparable from the level of consciousness in which it is being reflected. The moment I don't want is a reflection of my own consciousness.

My experience of most of my life is me trying to resolve the experiences I had that I didn't understand.

There is no moment, no experience without the consciousness of it.

What is behind all suffering? The illusion that I know everything about how the world and everyone in it should be. My suffering is born out of one thing: "I know."

A conflicted consciousness is a mind divided in itself that forever meets what it doesn't want and believes the pain is in the condition instead of seeing it's in the demand.

It's the negative reaction itself that tells us who or what to blame for the negativity.

Every shock is the momentary glimpse of an unseen limitation in an unconscious nature. It's the momentary revelation of an imbalance between what is active and what is passive.

Life is an endless shock. Creation doesn't exist without the shock between what is active and what is resisted, and what is realized through that resistance and newly conceived as a result of that union.

The unseen root of every shock is, "I don't know."

The silent mind that you seek appears by itself when you see that you don't know anything you think you know.

Everything this mind knows is the past.

The real struggle is that you must sacrifice yourself, but when you see there's no other option, there's no longer a struggle.

Love is not the confirmation of yourself as you imagine yourself to be, it's the revelation of yourself.

The more you work at being silent towards your own reaction, the more you will see within those reactions what their source is.

WISDOM SCHOOL

Student Q&A with Guy on "Dismiss Any Dark Thought or Feeling with Just Three Words" (5/8/24)