Find Freedom from the Fear of Yourself

Find Freedom from the Fear of Yourself

Part 1
Pollution, fraud, war, greed -- whatever and wherever the waste we see --
virtually every problem in our world today has its invisible root in the
insatiable act of trying to escape ourselves.

Part 2
You can no more run out of truths to discover about yourself than it's
possible to count the stars in a midnight sky.

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For further understanding. . .
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Discover a Peace that Never Goes to Pieces

No one can hope to know the joy of true personal freedom without knowing the
truth of spiritual peace. Freedom and peace are as kite and wind; the former
remains grounded without the latter. This is to say that before we will feel
ourselves being lifted above the conflict and illusions of this world, peace
must become conscious within us. Peace is the foundation, freedom the form
built upon it. We must never forget this relationship. To do so is to spend
our lives searching for freedom through our relationship with worldly
forms -- an act that effectively builds prisons we then struggle to escape!

The next natural step in our study is to see that if our peace is built upon
worldly forms, then it will be, at best, a temporary peace. Things, people,
places, conditions -- these are worldly forms, and they are what most of us
pursue to help erase the ache of having no peace in our hearts. If we wish
to take the next step in our spiritual development, then we must be willing
to acknowledge that the pursuit of these forms, even their possession, has
never brought us anything but a fleeting sense of fulfillment.

Now, one of the strange features about this present nature of ours is that
even on "good" days -- when we manage to achieve what we desire and feel a
sense of satisfaction -- this conditional peace often turns against us;
triumph becomes a kind of torment as we end up fearing we will lose the
thing just gained. Poof goes our peace! There is no profit in it, and its
promises are equally empty.

We have another nature, one whose life and whose peace are the same
character. This order of Self, and the Now that is the backdrop of its
being, are as the branch is to the life-giving vine.

In order to know peace and its promise, we must release ourselves from this
sleeping self that is always struggling to put pieces of peace together in
the vain hope they will stay united! The more of these "pieces of peace" we
juggle, the more anxious we become, all the while hoping that life won't
break up what we would assemble. Even though this approach has proven itself
fruitless, still we cling to the hope that next time things will be
different. What we must see is that our lives cannot change until we do --
from the inside out.

To succeed in our quest, we need a new and higher understanding of our own
being. For this peace that we seek resides within us; it is not to be found
anywhere else. We must discover and enter into our own still being.
-- Guy Finley
www.guyfinley.com
Shared with Love and Light,Rosalie xo