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September/October 2002 Living Now
Spiritual Answers to Everyday Questions

by Guy Finley

Guy Finley
Question:  I am holding a self-image of wanting to see myself as lovable.  I also fight against the painful self-image of being unlovable.  Both of these images seem so fundamental to my experience. Any comments?

GF:  Try to see that any image one feels the need to "hold" of oneself must be born of an opposite feeling--somewhat as you are beginning to realize now.  The image one produces and cling to of being "lovable" only serves to secretly strengthen the fear of not being worth loving.  Who you really are needs no images whatsoever to gaze upon.

Question:  How can we maintain after an epiphany or mountain top experience?  Nothing seems to fade faster that inspiration in the face of the mundane.

GF: Do not try to keep anything.  What is yours cannot be lost.  What is not yours cannot be held.  Start over.  What you really want is the Living Spirit of Truth, of the Light, of Christ.  This Spirit cannot leave us as it has never been without us.. save for our looking in the wrong places.

Question:  Is there really the ability to heal oneself from major illness?  What about "quantum healing?"

GF:  I know how his is going to sound, but the issue isn't about healing oneself from a major illness.  It is about awakening to and walking away from the time self that not only believes it exists only to perish, but that spends its entire existence running from what it can never escape.  The one who wakes up fears nothing.  He or she cannot be touched by this world.

Question: I want to mention a dark side of myself that I experience, mostly upon arising in the mornings.  I have to do a lot to rid myself of these awful feelings--almost like feeling hopeless before I even begin my day.  Is there something other than negative thinking going on here?

GF:  Tomorrow morning when you open your eyes, get out of bed immediately.  Do not lay there.  The darkness loves this "down time."  Put your feet on the floor and feel the rug (or whatever) under your feet. Come awake to the entirety of yourself, whatever that may be.  Remember God in this moment and with your heart, request His presence to always protect you.

Question:  Would it be possible for you to explain in spiritual terms, the law that "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction?"

GF:  There can be no expression of a force, say anger, that does not do to the one sending it what it does to the one it is intended for, at the very same moment.

Guy Finley lives and teaches in southern Oregon.  He is the author of eighteen books and tapes on the subject of self-realization and inner development. He is the founder of the Life of Learning Foundation, a non-profit, non-denominational center for Higher Self study.  Guy offers classes at the center and worldwide in his live monthly chat room classroom.   For more information or to sign up for a free weekly Key Lesson, visit www.guyfinley.com or call 541-476-1200.