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Student Q&A with Guy on "There Is No Greater Love" (6/2/21)
Posted: Thursday, June 3, 2021
Meeting: Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Duration: 25min 11sec
Topics Covered
The world that we see is one of our own making. Everything that you make in this life is made in your own image.
No other person can explain your pain to you. But most people don't even want to know anything about their pain. Most people want to avoid pain at all cost and seek pleasure instead.
"Many are called, but few are chosen." But you have to choose to be chosen.
Until we understand our pain, it is impossible to love another human being.
The longing we have for love cannot be answered by anything in this world. Without sacrifice there is no love.
A spiritual idea that does not become alive in you can destroy you. Living from ideas alone is bankruptcy because they act as a buffer between you and real life.
We falsely love the things that provide a momentary distraction from pain.
Why do we have to talk to ourselves or to other people about our pain? Answer: because we don't know what to do with it.
We seek heaven through people, power and possessions, but that kind of imaginary heaven will always betray us.
The truth is not hard on who you are, it is hard on who you are not.
Identification does not prove individuality. Instead it proves separateness.
We are on Earth to go through a very deliberate process of awakening.
One of the big problems in our relationships with others is that we do not know -- are not aware of the fact -- that other people suffer. Except for rare instances we don't want to know anything about another person's pain. The other person's pain IS your pain. Awareness of that fact is how you love your neighbor as yourself.
It is consciousness itself that is suffering, and that suffering can only be transcended by accepting it.
There are three lines to genuine spiritual work: Work on oneself, work with others, and work in service to the world.
You are the one you have been waiting for. The authentic love we are seeking has been in the consciousness all along, but we have been disconnected from it.
We are actually very fortunate whenever we come to the end of something that no longer works. Then we never have to go down that same road again.
Real lessons are not intellectual. A real lesson is the integration of two levels of consciousness.
The world does not have any hope without genuine spiritual work. As long as there is conflict there can never be love.
The life that fear is trying to protect is fear's life, not your life.
Thought says that pain will be resolved by thinking about it, but the consciousness that tries to save itself through thinking IS the pain.
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