Guy Finley: The Search -The Seeker -The Sacred Part 1.
I found this great interview on YouTube with Guy Finley and Dr. Rita Louise.
Guy Finley is the best in The Secret of Letting Go of our false selves.
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Guy Finley: The Search -The Seeker -The Sacred Part 1
Guy Finley discusses how our thoughts and behaviors can reveal trapped beliefs and emotions.
Dr. Rita Louise hosts this YouTube video on Just Energy Radio.
All of us, you and me, and everyone listening belongs to an incredible—single story.
One great story runs not just through our individual lives but also through everyone who’s ever walked this planet.
That single great story is that within us, each of us lives this longing to seek out that which, if you will, as I think it was Whitman who said, “at the central urge of every atom is to return to its source.”
We all long to find love, to find out what makes us whole, so we have a seeker in us, and of course, we all go on a search. What else is our life, if not an almost unceasing search, high and low hill, and dale, to find something to end that sense of being incomplete?
Ultimately, when we have run through all the things we can move through, little by little, we begin to realize that what we’re looking for has always lived within us, which we can call the sacred. Whether we call it “God,” “Christ,” or “Krishna,” the name is so unimportant.
This book helps the reader discover that through a series of chronological quotations starting five- thousand years ago. I prove that every one of these paths, traditions, and religions has said the same thing in the same way.
About this one, the story runs through the center of each of us.
The Search -The Seeker -The Sacred Book
So, the book introduces the reader to a beautiful idea:
- That we are not alone.
- That we have never been.
- Once we understand where not to look anymore, the rest begins naturally. We find out for ourselves the seeker meaning, that part of us that seeks the search for love, and the love that we find—all living in the very center of our being.
Whether physical or spiritual, the purpose of exploration serves one purpose, and that is to discover and recover who we are that we have forgotten is true about us.
We all know what has to happen. We have to get tired of dead ends. We must get tired of explaining our pain to ourselves and justifying ways to compromise ourselves to win some consolation that passes as soon as the conditions create it.
We set out to do the very best we know how to do with our knowledge.
Maybe I’ll be a happy camper if I win everyone’s approval at the office. Or perhaps I think I have to have ten million dollars; maybe I need a six-pack set of abs or whatever a person imagines will make them feel safe, whole, and significant.
But as we see repeatedly, we get to the end of whatever desire has told us will bring an end to this dark feeling we have, and lo and behold, we are no different.
Now we’ve got people who like us or have the six-pack of abs or whatever we desire, but the emptiness remains; why?
Because this sense of emptiness, of being incomplete, even inadequacy, that sense inside of us cannot be reconciled by anything outside of us, and the reason it can’t be appeased by anything outside of us is that – the very source of needing to be whole and fulfilled is being given to us by the divine – for gradually bringing us full circle like the prodigal son.
To realize we have been looking in the wrong places.
There is nothing wrong with having a nice physique, good health, and enough money to be physically secure. But in and of themselves, those things are inadequate to the consistent sense of not being complete.
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Guy Finley Interview
What do you think [listeners] is the source of your stress? How many of us rush?
Rushing, and all forms of rushing, are born out of feeling incomplete and inadequate. When we get caught up in an anxious state, our mind projects an adverse event coming down the pike.
We are worried about the event because as we look at what our mind tells us is true, that same mind that projects the negative image feels inadequate in the face of the image made.
So now it feels incomplete. So now it will try to control command or otherwise get to the end of its dark imagination, and of course, that never works. The deeper core issue is that we, as human beings, live opposites.
A wonderful marriage creates all that is created; this is pure physics, but a wonderful marriage of positive/ negative energies reconciled by modifying power.
So inside of us, there is this paradigm that we, by and large, are completely unaware of it at its source because the mind that that body of energy has developed only knows how to look outside of itself for a way to make that essential disturbance go away, and it can’t.
That’s the point, and our life lessons gradually lead us to this realization.
The task has never been to try and take me, make myself, or do something with myself in the world with my relationships that will finally make me feel whole. We are already complete; we don’t live where that “holiness” exists.
That’s the book’s purpose, to prove that in each of us is this beautiful, divine, loving intelligence that first makes itself known in a way in which we begin to long for a union with it.
The longing for a union produces a search – our relationships reveal to us the purpose, the very qualities of ourselves that we didn’t know about. I fell in love with you because you would help me see things about myself; I cannot see any other way.
So the search introduces us to ourselves but eventually reveals that what we’re looking for isn’t something to teach us to ourselves but to marry us with what we already are so that we move from a search or a realization into an act of conscious integration at the moment based on this new understanding.
Some seven billion men and women are on this planet, and like in the garden, some of us haven’t even come out of the husk yet. Some have a few leaves, while others are just starting to fruit.
That’s just the order of things, but the story remains the same for all of us because seeded within us is this celestial nature of love called God. What we have in ourselves is expressing itself in one way or another.
When someone can’t stand someone they work with, that is evidence, whether it’s seen or not, of a great dissatisfaction not with the person they can’t stand but with their reactions that define them at the moment through that relationship.
(Our relationships reveal who we are, for better or worse).
So gradually, when we quit our jobs, we went to fifteen different places to be free of “those kinds of people.” We saw that we met “those kinds of people wherever we went.”
It dawns on that person that they’ve been searching for something they couldn’t find outside of themselves because everyone they meet is introducing them to themselves.
Then, the search ends, and the integration process begins, where I become responsible.
Because you see, first, I search for ways to make you like me, or I search for ways to be dominant, to swim with sharks because I believe the problem is you.
Or I think the problem is that I’m inadequate and don’t have enough about me that’s likable so that I will develop these traits.
But I repeatedly see that what I do doesn’t matter to make you like me. Because even if you like me, I’m not liked by somebody else, and I’m just as bothered by that.
These experiences bring us to a point where we must turn our attention around and become conscious of the nature that describes our life instead of trying to fit into what defines our life as being.
Inherently, we are not happy campers; naturally, we always feel as though even in the best moments, the moment the event passes, it passes into us the next feeling like “I gotta go do something else. I need to make something else out of myself.”
Where does that come from?
Divine Dissatisfaction
It’s because within us lives what I call in the book – “a divine dissatisfaction.” A divine dissatisfaction cannot be satisfied by anything the world can give us, or for that matter, what the physical mind can imagine
They don’t go together; it’s like trying to put a fire out in the barn by pouring water into the kitchen sink. It doesn’t work; we seek it because we aren’t satisfied.
We say to ourselves, though I’m seeking to become something, no one wants to “become something” unless they’re dissatisfied with what they are.
The clearer that becomes, the sooner we save some of our attention.
We start to want to be present in the moment to ourselves instead of being pushed from pillar to post in an unprofitable search for a way to make us feel good about ourselves through conditions outside of ourselves.
>Guy Finley’s Book: The Seeker, the Search, the Sacred
Dr.Rita: But can’t that be a good thing? Doesn’t that help us and society move forward and advance?
Guy Finley: Well, first of all, Rita, our society is not advancing; medicine, yes, science – maybe. Even medicine is questionable because it’s run by the A.M.A., owned by the pharmaceutical industry.
Morally, there’s no chance we’re moving forward spiritually—it’s highly doubtful. That doesn’t mean that art is awakened here, and there aren’t pockets of individuals who saw the spreading darkness of this divided mind acting on the world for its purposes.
If it works quite that way, it’s pretty beautiful. Christ himself, and every great spiritual teacher, we wouldn’t even know about these individuals if they hadn’t exposed what they exposed and then alternately been punished by the darkness they revealed.
We are living at a critical time. The corruption of character is so evident that we either agree with the belief that we must do what we must to protect ourselves or realize the folly of searching for a way to free ourselves by enslaving ourselves with false ideas.
The book’s whole point is the entire point of everything I’ve been working for. Every one of us lives the dissatisfaction of Christ, the dissatisfaction of Buddha, and the dissatisfaction of Krishna.
and lives in every one of us, just as in these great Saints, Prophets, and Mystics—that which will try to bury not only that dissatisfaction but the individual who has it. We don’t know that the thing that tries to destroy the light glorifies it.
If it weren’t for something acting against our wish to be true, kind, and loving, we wouldn’t even have the wish, to begin with, let alone a way to express it in such a way that people around us and maybe the world itself would stand up and notice.
Something already as special as anything will ever live in me; let me focus on that.
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