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  1. Feb 25, 2024
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  3. Feb 21, 2024

    The First Step to Starting Life Over (Blog)

    Being renewed by Life, and starting life all over are one and the same superior, interior action: it starts with becoming aware of, and then bringing a conscious end to any lingering relationship we may have with old thoughts and feelings that want us to keep seeing our life through their eyes.

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  4. Feb 21, 2024

    Guy Finley's Inspirational Quote (2/21/2024)

    Part 1

    Spiritually speaking, we have but one problem: we are unable to see that the source of our conflict with life -- including the suffering it induces -- is inseparable from an unseen false belief, as follows: unless we keep struggling with unwanted moments, we’ll never reach, let alone realize a time in our life... when we can finally rest from our struggles!

    Part 2

    Whatever is born in the darkness will be brought into the light... and will be made in its Lightness.

    Part 3

    We believe our experience is the result of the condition we see as responsible for having created it; so that, according to this view of life, the condition in question -- and our consciousness of it -- seem to belong to separate worlds. But this perception is not just untrue, it is the source of all our suffering. The truth is, what we see, and then experience -- especially as perceived in some unwanted moment -- is actually inseparable from our unconscious conditioning that first resists, and then blames any moment that fails to live up to its preconceived expectation.



    Part 4

    When all is said and done, every struggle to free ourselves from unwanted moments is useless... until we begin to see through the illusion that our true nature can be made a captive of some unforeseen event. To even glimpse this truth sets the stage for us to enter into a new order of struggle; where now, instead of being coerced into another fight to try and free ourselves (again), rather we "struggle" to see through any fearful sense of self that would convince us we can be made a prisoner of any moment in passing time.

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  5. Feb 19, 2024

    Best Path for Resolving Conflicts with Ex-Partners

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    Is There a Remedy for Overtalking?

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  9. Feb 12, 2024

    3 New Choices to Help You Make Real Changes in Your Life (Blog)

    Nothing in the universe can make you relive some painful moment from your past as long as you choose to live in a self-renewing awareness that remembers the following truth for you: no old dark thought has the power to define you, let alone drag you down.

    Use the following three practices to bring the light of a higher awareness into any negative reaction so that in its revelation a reconciliation can take place that will effect new and real change in your life.

    #1: Rather than live with the pain of a thousand regrets, we must work to remember what we always seem to forget any time we're "tempted" to relive some pain from the past: no number of visits into our past has ever changed one thing about it, let alone the suffering we find waiting for us there! The light of this higher self-awareness IS the new choice that changes our life, because within it we see who and what we can no longer agree to be!

    #2: Rather than look to anxious thoughts to help put whatever we fear behind us, we must work to remember this one spiritual truth we always seem to forget until too late: Fearful thoughts are powerless to free us from any dreaded time to come. Why? Because no anxious moments exist without the fearful thoughts that create them. To see life in light of this higher self-understanding IS the new choice that changes our life, because within it we see who, and what we can no longer agree to be.

    #3: Rather than struggle to escape, or try to overpower our negative states - let alone identify with some old excuse for them - we must work to remember that all dark states are the spawn of an unseen dark master. Its power over us is that we believe its promise that things will change IF we do as it bids us to do. To see the truth of its lie is a new order of awareness that not only releases us from its dark influence, but places us in the hands of a living Light that can't act against itself.

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  12. Feb 09, 2024

    Stop Doing This if You Want to Make Real Changes

    Any moment of real change is the past made perfect through the reconciliation of the will of Heaven acting upon the will of earth, and in that union creating the birth of a brand-new creature.

    Any moment of real change is the past made perfect. Not the past reconfigured, disguised as some new plan, but the past made perfect - and the past is made perfect in this intersection of what is perfectly celestial and timeless in its activity working upon what has been created in this world, in this earth called myself.

    In the reconciliation of the will of the earth with the will of heaven, a union brings forth a brand-new creature. A brand-new creature doesn't have to try to change. It is the expression of what is changeless in time itself.

    What is any moment of "now" that is in the world but not of it? That is, that which is created being acted on by what is the perfect creative force? What is any moment of that intersection other than an endless interaction, an endless relationship. You can see it - "as above, so below." There's no moment where change - meaning rebirth - isn't taking place. 

    Maybe that's the problem for us - that we don't really get this idea that when something is changed, it's changed. It hasn't become a better version of itself. It isn't some strange extension of what was almost okay and now it's nearer to that. Real change must be understood as being synonymous with becoming a new creature, a new creation in that moment. Because everything around us is, in fact, becoming reborn, remade moment to moment. 

    If that's true - and you can see that - then why in the name of God are you and I not changing? Why do we live outside of this celestial, harmonious relationship between what is timeless and what is in time? Between what is true and loving and that which is intended to be the reflection of that? 

    Evidence suggests that we don't see at all - not really. When a moment comes along and our attention is seized by it - and it always is - the reason our attention is seized by the moment is because this consciousness sees that moment as something that is set against itself. So I am literally, in that moment, looking only at a negative reaction to the moment, and the negative reaction is suggesting - as it always does - what I need to do to change the moment, what I have to do to make that moment just go away. 

    We don't really see at all, because this summary resistance - born of a conditioned consciousness that is looking for the confirmation and the continuation of itself through time - is a blinding force, and it is also a binding force. In those moments when we are filled with this resistance, all we see is what our negative reaction points to outside of us and then blames accordingly for the pain of our experience in that moment. 

    First and foremost: it is impossible to blame any moment for the pain we're in and be changed in that moment as well. If you blame a moment, there will never be any change in that moment. The change will only be what you see from the past as causing it, or the future you hope to reach where you're not in pain anymore. 

    If you want to change, you've got to get rid of the whole notion of blame. It has to go - it is a lie, it is a deceit. This blaming nature does not exist apart from the conditioning that measures the moment according to its expectation - and when the moment doesn't match how it is supposed to be, then this consciousness can't find fault with itself, so it blames the circumstance for not being the way it's supposed to be. Then it plans how to change it.

    Have you not heard the word, the expression, "the change of life?" Mostly it has to do I think with getting older, as in, "I'm going through a change of life." I want you to understand there is no change of life, in the highest sense of being changed into a new human being, without you and I being willing to go through the change of light

    The real change of life, at every level, requires that we go through a change in light that can only take place in that light - because, as I said, what is blame other than a conditioned manifestation of a mind that, looking out, wants "that" and doesn't want "that" - or doesn't want "that" and correspondingly wants something else. It is a mind that lives in a perpetual divided state, endlessly comparing and measuring each moment to what it expects it to be. And when it doesn't hit the mark, then everything's got to change about "you," everything's got to change about the world. 

    The last thing that we suspect is that the reason we keep meeting these same moments is because this consciousness blames the experience of the moment on the condition instead of its own conditioned state. 

    Just for grins, just for 24 hours, resolve to set an intention: anything that comes up in me that wants to blame him, her, this, or that for this rush of negativity, this anxiety, this fear - anything that comes up that wants to find something to blame - I absolutely under no circumstances will agree with it. I will become the observer of this consciousness that wants to blame, instead of serving it unconsciously and hoping that the changes it suggests I make will produce a change in the way I experience my life. We have the evidence in front of us all the time, it doesn't work.

    Can you see how futile it is to immediately identify with anything that wants to blame a circumstance for what, ostensibly, is this consciousness that's resisting anything that doesn't match its own image?

    If we can see that, then we should be able to see - given what we've described - that what we are really blind to is that we live from a mind that never stops resisting its own expectation. That never stops resisting anything that doesn't grant it what it has desired. 

    A consciousness like that is never in the light of the moment, but rather is always shining what it calls its light on the moment - and when that light reveals what it doesn't expect to see in that moment, it says the moment is dark. 

    No moment is dark. Every moment is a marriage of infinite divine forces, each and all interacting, blending, and bringing about endless new creations, of which you and I are intended to be a part, but are not yet.


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