Finley Seeker's Guide to Self-Freedom

Truths for Living
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-1-61842-725-0
Verlag: BookBaby
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

For all of us who wish to find the effortless happiness and understanding for which we are meant, this map is available today. It is Guy Finley's powerful book, Seeker's Guide to Self-Freedom: Truths for Living. This is the book that has taken thousands of grateful readers, step by step, on the journey that helped them realize a whole new life. If you will use this map yourself -- with all its generous, well-marked roads and signposts along the way -- you will soon uncover these genuine inner riches, and more: Go beyond the limitations of thought Break out of self-punishing patterns Grow in relationship with higher Love Be relieved of all fear and worry Nurture your unshakable, true nature The unique format of Seeker's Guide to Self-Freedom makes it easy for you to master the special information and tools you need to attain a liberated spirit and higher success. Each chapter begins with an explanation of a critical milestone on the path to higher self-understanding. This is followed by a series of questions and answers -- real questions that have been asked by others who -- like yourself -- are actively seeking a more fulfilling and meaningful life. And then each chapter concludes with a targeted exercise that you can put into practice immediately to ensure swift progress.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finley, Guy

Leseproben

One Inviting What Is True to Set You Free We have all heard, in some way or another, the beautiful, hope-filled words “Know the truth and the truth will set you free.” For millions of people the world over, this idea is connected to a particular religious sentiment that comforts them in times of plenty, but serves little use when these same people find themselves captives of some stress or sorrow produced by an unwanted moment. During these difficult times, the general perception goes something like this: “The truth is that life must surely be against me, because if this ‘reality of life’ weren’t looming over me, lurking in the shape of this present shadow, I wouldn’t be as afraid or worried as I am now.” So which is it? Does the Truth serve to free us, or do we have to serve painful truths and struggle with them to escape their wrath? Let any uncertainty we have be quietly washed away in the following revelation and explanation—here is the one great truth behind all of our individual experiences, after which we will prove its timeless existence: The nature of Truth is victory. It is the eternal expression of David and Goliath. Its one great purpose is to empower, free, and fulfill whomsoever should realize it. Now let’s see how this is true. We begin with the insights of the great mathematician and sage, Albert Einstein: A human being is part of the whole, called by us “Universe”; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, his feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures, and the whole of nature in its beauty. Such holistic sentiments almost always ring true to those with “ears to hear”; yet again we must recognize in the above statement a similar challenge as we do with trying to reconcile the idea that the Truth sets us free. As we all know too well, it’s one thing to want to be truly free, to be wholly compassionate, and it’s another level of consciousness altogether to know the Truth that lifts us above the presently small circle of our often-stressed lives. So, the first truth we must realize is that the truths we claim as being ours don’t really belong to us; we must admit that something stands between us and the truth that would free us and enlarge our hearts. Freedom and compassion cannot dwell in any world dominated by fear. And, just for the record, our usual reaction to any event not of our choosing is to fear it, so that our tendency is to see these experiences as being adversarial. These unwanted moments are seen as threats to our present happiness, as well as being thorns in our tomorrow, because with any unwanted event comes the fear of not having the right answers to address the flood of new questions arising out of life’s sudden turn. But what if what we think is the truth of these moments is not the truth at all? What if it were possible to see the truth of these moments in a whole new light? Imagine if we could know in any of these given moments that life isn’t handing us a bunch of do-or-die questions upon which hinge happiness or defeat—that our unwanted experiences don’t deliver us into our enemy’s hands, but lead us instead to living answers whose soul purpose is to help us realize the great Friend we have in Truth? Wouldn’t such a reality, once realized, end those nagging fears that ride the dark tailcoat of the unexpected? And wouldn’t the end of these fears be the same as being free to live fearlessly? Of course! And, as we are about to find out, this is precisely the case. When we recall the turning points in our lives, the times where we had no choice but to go through those wrenching self-changes that come with personal crisis, it shouldn’t be hard to remember how sure we were that these same trials heralded our doom. But looking back, as I invite you to do now, can’t we see that the real crisis we faced was one born not so much of changing external conditions as it was of our being asked to take part in the birth of a new level of our own consciousness? A brief consideration proves this crucial, truth-filled finding. Experience reveals that the actual nature of any painful moment in life has little to do with what we first blame our pain on. For example, that “She wants to leave me” isn’t the real pain; the real pain is that if she does, it means there has to be something “wrong” with me. Besides, without her in my life as she has been, I won’t know what to do with myself; I’ll be uncertain as to the worth of who I am, or how I should view myself. And so, being in fear of having to deal with what feels akin to the end of ourselves, we resist or deny anything that threatens us with such an untimely demise. At this stage, our general response is to make unwanted compromises with ourselves, or otherwise somehow grovel to keep the passing relationship alive. However, try as we might, what will come to pass does just that. Maybe it takes years, months, or maybe only days, but we are slowly dragged through the doorway of a life lesson that is no longer avoidable. And what do we invariably find? Behind each of these seemingly impossible moments stands an unseen (at the time) purpose: to bring us to a certain realization or experience of the truth about our self. But while this medicine may be bitter, it also heals us. How? For starters, we realize (in hindsight) that what has transpired was not only a gift in disguise, but that we are much better off for having worked our way through its challenging wrapping! Now we understand, beyond the shadow of any doubt, that we couldn’t begin the next level of our life journey until we had completed these lessons now behind us. In other words, it’s clear to us that what we first fought so hard to avoid was really a truth come to rescue us from self-ignorance—a truth that not only explained why our lives were as they were, thus freeing us from a mistaken sense of self, but in the same moment set the stage for our further self-development. Can you see the truth of this recurring set of conditions and how it continually manifests itself through the course of our life experiences? We have reached the threshold of the Great Truth. We have realized that our experiences in life ultimately serve the purpose of revealing some unseen truth about us, to us. As this is the truth, amply evidenced by our own accounting, then can we not begin to perceive that these very experiences, regardless of their content, must be an expression of the truth for the purpose of helping us discover the truth behind these same life experiences? To help you more deeply understand this liberating insight, let’s view it from a slightly different angle. Each cycle of our life, as marked by each subsequent level of personal growth, comes to a happy close only when the lessons driving that cycle are finally learned. This much should be clear to us. But what remains cloudy is that each life lesson learned that served to close out each cycle came to us in the form of a needed truth. And further, that this same truth always arrives in some distinct realization about our own nature—one that had not only been unconscious to us, but that is now recognized as having been secretly responsible for the events of that life cycle now being exited. Can you see the tremendous implications in this finding? First, it means that in the middle of any unwanted experience, waiting there all along for us to realize it, is the truth that liberates and lifts us above our former limited understanding responsible for that very experience. In other words, our experiences revolve around, and are actually created to reveal, certain life lessons yet to be learned. And if we would dare see further (which we must if we would know Truth’s victory), this discovery reveals the unimaginable. There exists behind these life lessons a timeless truth, one that has not only perceived what we need before we do, but that somehow actively arranges our life experiences for the sole purpose of revealing itself to our soul. We have set before us evidence of a completely compassionate, purposeful Intelligence—a living Truth whose silent operation not only reveals the meaning of our existence but serves in this capacity as seed, nourishment, and fruition of our incredibly diverse life-experiences. To grasp, even in the smallest way, that a wisdom revealed to us as Truth (call it what you will) is the secret fabric of our lives, is to begin realizing a whole new order of self-victory. Here we come upon a success that has no opposite. Failure ceases to exist as a fear. The painful idea of loss, of falling down and losing our way, forever loses its sting, because in the light of our new understanding we see now that the universe itself not only wants us to be victorious individuals, but actually wills this special victory. Expanding Our Understanding of the Nature of Truth It seems that everywhere I go today, everyone has their own idea of what the truth is and why I should support their idea or value system. So my question is, what is truth and how do I come upon it for myself? Start simply. It may not seem so at the outset of your journey, but the Truth is always simple. For instance, here is a simple truth to ponder: Thought tends to confuse what is true; it twists...