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Key Lesson: For billions of human beings around the world, the idea of surrender is believed to be the “winning strategy.” But true surrender is inseparable from a conscious sacrifice of oneself, born of realizing the following truth: there's no strategy by which it becomes possible to win any form of peace that we’ve imagined.
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Around the world today, millions if not billions of individuals are being consumed by negativity. The world and our relationship to the cosmos always run through cycles of increased or decreased activity. Right now we are in a cycle of increased activity where many people are stirred up. In such stirring there exists the possibility of increased conflict, but also of increased consciousness – although it is conflict that seems more prevalent.
We may wish this world wasn't the way it is. But we must realize the world is the way it is because we the way we are. We may profess high ideals, but that doesn't change what we do and pursue as long as we remain unconscious to the will of negativity within us.
Negativity is a consuming energy that seems to create life, but actually drains it. It promises to create something new to escape the pain of it, when all it does is create increasing conflict where the pain is enhanced. At some point an aspirant must realize, “I just can't be like that anymore, but I don't know how to stop! I look out at the world and all its problems and ask, ‘What am I supposed to do??’”
As sincere seekers we arrive at a certain peace when we finally understand that our first task is always to be as attentive as we can be to any part of us that tells us the way to get rid of the negativity we feel is to carry out what it promises will bring an end to itself. We realize there is no end to that endeavor. That nature lives in a world of imagination, producing imaginary outcomes. When we passively obey, it’s inevitable that the imagined outcome will crash down, leading that nature to then produce another plan that’s bound to fail.
The clearer this becomes, the more we possess our own life. We don't passively pounce or passively postpone or passively lend ourselves to something that promises a better tomorrow that never comes. The new man, the new woman isn't passive to anything at all, save to the light in the moment – that Divine gift of revelation – that allows them to see and be actively attentive to what is welling up within them.
Then we are actively present to the revelation instead of passively asleep to the false promise that tells us how to escape what we see in ourselves and the world. That is the opening to real transformation within us, and in turn, the beginning of the change we hope to see around us.
For over 40 years Guy Finley has helped individuals around the world find inner freedom and a deeper, more satisfying way to live. His in-depth and down-to-earth teachings cut straight to the heart of today’s most important personal and social issues –stress, fear, relationships, addiction, meditation, and peace. His work is widely endorsed by doctors, business professionals, celebrities, and spiritual leaders of all denominations.
Guy is the author of 45 books and video/audio programs including his international bestseller “The Secret of Letting Go” which has been translated into 30 languages and sold millions of copies worldwide.
He is the founder and director of Life of Learning Foundation, a nonprofit Center for Spiritual Discovery located in Southern Oregon, with over 40,000 online newsletter subscribers.
https://www.guyfinley.org
Through Life of Learning, Guy has presented over 5,000 unique self-realization seminars to thousands of grateful students throughout North America and Europe over the past 30 years and has been a guest on over 700 television and radio shows, including national appearances on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and NPR. Guy is a faculty member at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York and 1440 Multiversity in Scotts Valley, California. He is a regular expert contributor to Beliefnet, Insight Timer, Simple Habit, and many other popular spiritual sites.
Finley holds regular classes at Life of Learning that are held in-person and live-streamed
https://www.guyfinley.org/light These classes are open to all. For more information about Guy Finley and Life of Learning Foundation visit www.guyfinley.org
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