Student Q&A with Guy on "How to End the Daily Painful Dramas in Your Life" (5/3/23)

There is nothing that you can do in a dream to wake you up from the nightmare of being a human being who is spiritually asleep.

Unlike all other creatures, you have been given the gift to be aware of your own consciousness, as opposed to being asleep within it and a captive of its own movements.

The mind creates a dark drama and then struggles to find a way to escape from the very scene that it has created.

No matter how painful a drama is, something in you loves it because it gets to be on center stage.

All painful dramas have their beginnings when the consciousness encounters a moment that it doesn't want and then tries to figure out what to do about it.

The thinking mind tries to understand the meaning of reactions by drawing from its own storehouse of thoughts, its memory. It is a construct of the past. There cannot be a painful drama without being on the stage of the past.

The backstory behind any painful drama, the script, is already written before the mind encounters the event it doesn't want.

An unconscious part of you wants to be embroiled in a painful drama because of the strong sense of self it provides.

Who am I on stage with if I am arguing with someone who is not even there? It's just me. We can only argue with ourselves if we don't consciously know we are doing it.

Interior drama is created within a mind that compares its idea of how the moment should be with how the moment actually is.

How is it possible that you don't notice when you disappear from your own life?

The punchline of the story of the reporter watching the dramas at the upscale bar in the well-heeled hotel was, "Not this time. I've seen how this drama ends, so now is as good a time as any to close the curtain on the old show."

Stop participating in the drama as it is brewing. Instead cancel the show right then and there because you already know how it ends. Become a show-stopper.

The only way the drama will end is when you end your relationship with it, by first recognizing when you are on stage and seeing the pain in it.

One of the things that the fearful self fears most is the possibility of meeting a moment without a script and without a familiar role to play, because it won't know who to be.

WISDOM SCHOOL

Student Q&A with Guy on "How to End the Daily Painful Dramas in Your Life" (5/3/23)