Finley 365 Days to Let Go

Daily Insights to Change Your Life
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-940529-18-9
Verlag: BookBaby
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten

There is a set of mighty, eternal principles that govern everything in the Universe. Just as the wind lifts a kite, readers can learn to use these principles to elevate their lives and effortlessly discover the happiness, love, and higher success they have always longed for. In 365 Days to Let Go, author Guy Finley reveals two of the most beautiful and elegant of these principles: the Law of Seasons and the Law of Scale. In four stirring chapters, one for each season, readers will learn how to harness the immense hidden powers found in Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall to lift their lives into a whole new level. Meditations to change your life one day at a time. Each chapter begins with a penetrating explanation of the purpose of that particular season, and continues with deep meditative insights specifically written to help a person find the power and the peace hidden within that particular day of the year. Readers can use this special book every day for one season, one year, or for the rest of their lives, and watch as the mind grows sharper, days grow brighter, creativity takes on a fresh new spirit, and the heart becomes whole.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finley, Guy

Leseproben

Winter If fall signals the retreat of nature—as when the last leaves fall from the trees and countless creatures crawl into nooks and crannies to pass through the bone-chilling days to come—then the first day of winter, December 21, is when nature—having gradually withdrawn her forces—reaches a resting point. Now comes a three-month period of time that represents a pause in the activity of life. Great lakes, ponds, and streams freeze over; the earth grows hard and unreceptive. Tree sap stops flowing. Even the air becomes dense,slow to move,and heat stealing.Yet,not everything is as it appears to be! The pervasive stillness and deep silence of winter are powers every bit as great as are the explosive forces of spring and summer,only different. After all, what is a glacier but a vast frozen river crawling its way through time? Both are forms of water whose unstoppable might can carve their way through solid rock! So,how can we channel this power of winter and use it to let go of whatever stands between us and the higher life we desire? Winter is the time of the year when the forces of nature assume their most passive form. But we are discovering here that passive does not mean powerless! Consider the micro-pause between each beat of the heart. Is the heart less alive, made less potent for the brief rest it takes in its own beating? Of course not! In each such moment of its repose we could just as easily say that it is gathering itself for its next pulsation. In other words, its temporary passive state is actually a measured act of preparation.So it is with the “heart” of winter. The better we understand this unique power of being passive—and how it serves as the secret consort of all things active—the more we grow in the faith we need to be wisely passive toward whatever fears remain in us about letting go of our false self. This is why, during the dark days of winter, we should take time each day—as often as possible—to quietly return to the living Light that dwells in the center of ourselves. By gathering our attention in this way, and bringing the whole of ourselves into the heart of this interior stillness, we not only collect our own forces, as nature herself is doing, but much more: in this deliberate act of gathering ourselves—and for the conscious sense of quiet contentment we find within it—we are also being released from the false idea that the source of our strength and security can be found somewhere outside us. The great French author, philosopher, and Nobel Prize winner,Albert Camus,knew the power of this truth now revealed.He also realized its liberating potential. In the following carefully chosen words, see how beautifully he tells us not to fear any season of life wherein we find ourselves feeling empty, alone, or without any Light in our life. He writes: “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me lay an invincible summer.” Once we start to see, to know in our innermost heart, that life itself is already complete, we can let go of whatever—or whoever—would have us believe otherwise. Old attachments and their long-standing aches are now seen for being what they have always been: appendages of days gone by, worthless to the Higher Self we have agreed to become and by whose stillness we realize this need for a wholly new valuation of our own soul. Now is the season to die to discontent, to withdraw our consent to live with any thoughts or feelings that would convince us it’s necessary to live in conflict or confusion. The winter season can be the most challenging in terms of learning to channel its powers to help us let go. But, we may also have this timeless assurance: we are really created to enter into the perfect stillness from which we came. And for our return home—by entering into the bare infinity that is the center of our True Self—we arrive where we have always longed to be …without ever having had to set out. Here we make this last, glad discovery: the task of letting go, of separating ourselves from who and what we need no longer be, has already been done for us. January 1 If we will only work to remember that we live in a world within which there are an infinite number of stories unfolding—all at the same time—then we will never forget that it is our choice as to which of these stories becomes our life. January 2 We are created with the tools it takes to master our own lives. But self-mastery remains the ultimate mystery until that day dawns when—weary of struggling to overcome what we blame for our conflicted selves—we let go and enter into the untamed country of ourselves by becoming completely still. And by this stillness, we tame its wildness; and through this stillness we are given dominion over all the kingdoms of heaven and earth. January 3 The source to which we turn, and from which we derive our strength, is the real mark of our character; for in any moment of trial, no one can be any stronger —better or brighter—than what he or she loves. January 4 Uncertainty is unwanted because it feels so unpleasant each time it appears in our lives.But can we be awake enough to see its positively bright side? For as surely as darkness must come before the break of a new day,so it’s true: before the new light of higher understanding can have its gentle dawn in us—we must see that we have come to the end of what we know. January 5 Every time you reach the conclusion that you cannot go past a fear, doubt, or other perceived limitation, you deny the source of your own endlessness! January 6 When at last you decide that you would rather find your own way through whatever stands in your way, you will also find, at last, that you have found yourself. January 7 The real test of our love for the light of truth is not when life is bright, but is best measured when nothing goes right. For the love of light at mid-day is easy; but to remember it in the dark of night—to struggle to recollect ourselves into its sheltering glow—demands a conscious choice. Are we to be the one who feels forsaken by the light we profess to love? Or will we be the one who never forgets that true love never dies? January 8 We affirm the light of Truth—not by professing its powers on sunny days, but in choosing to walk by its light—no matter how faint—even in the midst of our darkest hour when all that we see before us is defeat. January 9 Your True Self cannot be made a captive of any dark condition any more than a sunbeam can be caught in a bottle. January 10 Things go wrong in life. They just do. And sometimes downturns feel like they’ll never get back to right-side up. Life is like that.So what! What we have been given is not what makes us who we are: the true measure of our soul’s success is what we make with what we are given. January 11 The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that cast it. January 12 When we know that life, bare as it may be at times, is the most precious gift of all,then ours is a peace beyond profit and immune to loss. January 13 Since what troubles us, troubles us now—then now is when we must awaken to and address within ourselves whatever it is that makes us ache. To delay this interior work is to lose sight of the doorway that our own disturbed state opens for us and beckons us to enter. January 14 The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become. January 15 In our conversations with others, we must learn to say what we want as clearly and kindly as possible, but leave no doubt as to our desire. Otherwise we learn, too late, the painful lesson that unspoken assumptions always return to bite the hand of those who hold them. January 16 Some of God’s greatest gifts to us often appear, at first, as though He is taking something away from us. January 17 Thinking can no more produce peace of mind than throwing a stone into the center of a pond has the power to end its ripples. January 18 Better to see where we have been blind in this life—toward others and about ourselves—than never to see at all; otherwise, we’ll just go on blaming whatever walls we walk into for getting in our way! January 19 The only thing we “add” to life by our resistance to it is the weight of a self-induced suffering born of needless worry. January 20 Dreaming of some brighter day to come—when, for happier circumstances, you will be freer—is like believing that the solution to living in a city with unending traffic is to have a better car to sit in as you go nowhere. January 21 Sitting in judgment of others, and reaching the conclusion that their lives are meaningless, does not prove that our life has meaning. January 22 Not only is beauty in the eye of the beholder,but so also is ugliness—a simple truth that those who fear self-knowledge fail to see.The wise understand that truth is always beautiful, even when it is hard to look at. January 23 If we would examine closely the strands of those unseen webs that...