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Kate: Beatriz says, thanks, Guy. This shed lots of light into our cloudy perceptions. My question is, how do we discover who we are, if since the maternal womb, we've been casually and intentionally influenced and shaped by many factors... specifically other human beings who are either living at the same time that we do, or by ancestors. We adopt certain ways as we've been taught because we've inherited this idea that this is the only way to survive and thrive in this jungle life on earth.
Guy: I was going to say before you read the question, a comment. I'm glad I did, because it fits what you've asked. A light never breaks in your consciousness that isn't for the purpose of liberating you from the darkness you don't see. And you can't bring about the light in yourself that lives in the darkness, that the darkness doesn't comprehend. You can't produce that light. It came with you into this life. It's a gift. But because of our mistaken, constant sense of self threatened by anything that doesn't match the image we have of ourselves, every time we're shown something within us that shouldn't be there, all we know how to do is to fear it. And so we're handed back over to the darkness instead of thanking the light for showing us ourselves as we are, for showing us our necessary and natural relationship with the divine light, with the Christ, with love. Not a love that you call on. Our whole life, all we've ever known to do in a moment of conflict is imagine something to call on to save us from it. Anything that tells you what to call on in a moment to save yourself from a fear is fear hiding itself so that it can hand you over to more of its authority, to more dependency, to more attachment on the very images and ideals that are the very source of your fear itself. See, this is... I can't, I've often said this, I often have this feeling like, I wish I could kind of like Superman, you know he throws open his shirt and there's a big S, you know, and then "Da, da, da!" I often wish that somehow I could just tear myself open. Because it is unimaginable to this nature that you can have a life where you don't have to call on anything because it's already there, because it's already been given to you to see. And why is that unimaginable? Because I have to think about what I need to free myself. I think I have to depend upon and call on what is going to liberate me. So I read, and I do all... I just, I go on and on and on. So Beatriz: freedom can't be taught. You don't teach an eagle how to fly. You don't teach a wave how to roll across the ocean. You don't teach a blade of grass or the lilies in the field to exhibit the beauty that they do. It's right in the midst of their life. It's in the midst of your life too. But you won't know it until you weary of a life that you keep giving yourself, where one day you won't feel afraid.