Student Q&A with Guy on "Freedom from the Painful Voices in Your Head" (6/7/23)

Any day that goes by without see something new about yourself is a wasted day.

You cannot be receptive to new impressions when you are talking to yourself. But it is not really YOU that is in engaged in the conversation.

Talking to yourself is the activity of a divided mind that is trying to reconcile the conflict that it created in itself.

Anything that engages in a conversation about "what if?" lives in mortal fear.

The mind talks to itself in the hopes of finding something that will liberate it from the disturbance that it is talking to itself about.

Every time you find yourself in psychological pain, you have been talked into it.

There is no such thing as a healthy conversation you can have with yourself about yourself, in which the illusion of a "you" having the conversation is strengthened.

You are not intended to have a dialog with yourself about the meaning of the moment.

The only way to stop talking to yourself is to recognize that it is not "you" that is talking and not "you" that is listening.

What is the sound of talking to yourself when there is no one there who no longer wants to hear it?

New self-knowledge is separation from an incomplete understanding. A new impression is a new relationship with your own consciousness.

When you talk to yourself about what you don't want, you believe that you are separating yourself from what you don't want, when really you are immersing yourself in it.

When you become aware that you have been engaged in an interior dialog, at that point you can withdraw from the conversation and stop talking back.

Don't resist or try to control the voices in your head. Rather, learn to impersonally observe them with alert attention.

A machine does not know that it is a machine.

WISDOM SCHOOL

Student Q&A with Guy on "Freedom from the Painful Voices in Your Head" (6/7/23)