Guy Finley: The Secret of Your Immortal Self
Guy Finley: In other words, an unconscious part of us projects a terrible outcome and then goes about opposing what it has imagined in the darkness of itself.
Now, add to this last idea the light of the following fact, and you’ll see how natural and effortless it becomes to let go of negative states. It’s impossible to resist any given moment – that is to say, when the teacher appears with a lesson we need – and learn that lesson at the same time.
To grow we must learn to let go of any part of us that believes Real Life can act against us. The more firmly we are rooted in this Divine understanding – that only the Immortal Self can see as being true – the freer we are…not just of negative states, but of all forms of unconscious, unnecessary suffering.
OMTIMES: You’ve been writing and speaking about topics of happiness, self-liberation, and divinity for decades. How did you come to this path?
Guy Finley: In truth, I didn’t really come to this path…as much as it came to me at a very early age. If there is any difference at all to be noted in why one chooses to walk this upward trending path, versus some other path through life, I think it would be this: The world that we now live in not only knows almost nothing about the pain that permeates it, but is actually dedicated – socially, culturally, even religiously – to its avoidance.
Most of us run around seeking consolation for stressful conditions outside of ourselves, never seeking to understand the consciousness responsible for the conflict and fears that drive us down these dead ends in life, as they so often turn out to be. Somehow, something within me – no doubt, some spark of the Immortal Self – could not be satisfied with the standard solutions to this suffering. So, in a word, I owe whatever has become profitable within me to a kind of pain that I was never able to put…and keep away.
