Saturdays with Guy (5/25/2024)

It's impossible to die to the pain of our past... as long as we remain identified with an unconscious nature that can't seem to go through a day without reliving some dark memory it then summarily resists.

We don't realize that we've agreed to give our attention to what pains us.

Our mind doesn't go back and revisit the past. Our mind revisits the conditioned content of itself that it calls the past.

Human beings assume innocence. That's why we're always shocked. But you are the furthest thing from being innocent.

We are a creature that is so completely conditioned that it never even occurs to us to ask a question: well, why would I keep doing what I do when it doesn't do anything for me?

Here's a key question: Why would I carry around something with me that I don't want?

Our hope is to awaken and start realizing that we are an unending, infinite part of a perfect process all the time.

There is no name for any state of being. But we have a hundred names for every last one.

We don't know anything about the occupants of our house.

The past has no compassion in it.

We're drawn to the past like a moth to a candle because it affirms us.

We never suspect that the more we revisit the past in order to change or otherwise get over the pain, the more we are drawn into a mind that needs the pain in order to affirm itself as being real.

One day you will marvel at how quickly something comes to claim your life, because that's what it does.

New possibilities appear out of the negation of something, not the affirmation of something.

What you're looking at only exists as a barrier because your mind has made it that.

Your hope in the world is no different than your hope that your world will change when you finally get through whatever your problems are.

The real crucible, the real post-traumatic stress disorder is when we sit inside of this moment and we know we can't go forward but we know we can't go back.

When we finally understand that we'll never know, we'll have wisdom. Because then we won't be in our mind sorting through these vines of thoughts and feelings in an attempt to resolve them.

There is something in us that, by grace, is disturbed. There can't be creation without disturbance.

Knowledge is conditioned. Everything you know to say about your state is conditioned.

We struggle with everything except for the one thing that needs to be struggled with.

Observe the struggle. That's the whole thing. We're never observing the struggle. We're too busy being part of the struggle and trying to bring about what we hope we can see when it's all said and done.

You have to go through seeing that you're not a god. You think you are.

WISDOM SCHOOL

Saturdays with Guy (5/25/2024)