A Course in Miracles
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Your weekly toolkit for planting seeds of success, abundance, love and joy "Minds, like parachutes, function better when open" Issue CLM020 The opinions expressed in any articles in this publication are those of the individual authors and may not necessarily by shared by the publishers of Cultivate Life! magazine. Cultivate Life! magazine Any financial or health advice given in Cultivate Life! Magazine may not be right for your particular case and you should seek your own profession opinion before acting on said advice. is published every Monday Copyright © — The publisher, authors and contributors reserve full copyright of their work as featured in Cultivate Life! magazine. No part of this publication may be copied or otherwise reproduced in any form or by any means without the written permission of www.trans4mind.com the publisher. Cultivate Life! magazine is a joint initiative by Trans4mind and No Limits For Me Editors: Greg Willson of No Limits for Me and Peter Shepherd of Trans4mind FOR ME Quotes of the Week CONTENTS: Guy Finley, The Courage to Be Free "Those who turn good organizations into great organizations Darren Weissman, Taking Action to Live a Quantum Life are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion Linda Sapadin, The “Six Styles” of Procrastination for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake." —Jim Collins Stephanie Marston, Banish Your Guilt Demons Chuck Gallozzi, Is Your To-Do List Too Much To Do? "I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to Marlene Buffa, Mother Earth Alive and Well pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you John Assaraf, Getting to a Higher Level of Success confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for Beca Lewis, Super Shuttle Revelations your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you." Steve Wickham, We Were Born to Be Alive! —J. Kenfield Morley Margot Zaher, How to Have a Blissful Soul-Based Relationship REGULAR FEATURES: Quotes of the Week; Here Comes "For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book Inspiration with Phil Evans; Zen Story; From the Shelf; 100 Words; and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief." Eastern Wisdom; Ponder a Moment; A Course In Miracles, Lesson —Fernandez de Andrada 11 plus Commentary by Allen Watson PLUS bonus ebook, 30 Keys to Change Your Destiny by Guy Finley 500+ of the best Inspirational Quotes click here for your NEVER MISS AN ISSUE free subscription GUY FINLEY The Courage to Be Free Bestselling Author Guy Finley Answers Questions on The Courage Guy: Actually, we haven't really lost our right to be free; we've given it to Be Free away. This idea of having given away our freedom is very paramount for Question: Guy, the title of your book, The Courage to Be Free, raises an a person to understand, because the mindset is that something has immediate question. Why does it take courage to be free? come in and taken it, or that somehow I misplaced it. And we need to be very clear about the difference between those things. Guy: The need to let go of something or someone would never even occur to us were it not for the fact that some part of us is clinging to it Question: So then, what freedom have we lost, and how do we reclaim with both hands! It takes courage to be free because it isn’t the person, it? possession, or situation, that must be released, but rather it’s our Guy: The first step to reclaiming freedom is self-honesty. Without that, identification with that condition that holds us captive. Self-liberation nothing can change. And the principle thing we've lost, that underlies all means just that: liberation from the (level of) self that knows itself only of the fear that visits most of us, is our ability to love. By love I don't through whatever it first becomes identified with, then attached to, and mean the sentimental, common type of love that is full of sensation and finally dependent upon. You can’t separate this kind of false dependency everyday emotion. What I mean by the ability to love is the divine from the fear it creates when the conditions that created it finally fall capacity each of has to become one with whatever we give our attention apart...which they always will. to. Question: One of the main themes in your book concerns recovering Question: In one chapter you write of the need for us to shatter our false what you call "our original fearless self." What do you mean by "our beliefs. What are some of our most limiting false beliefs? original fearless self?" Guy: The father of all false beliefs is that we are separate and apart Guy: Our original fearless self is that part of us that knows, without from everyone around us. Of course this is how our senses report reality having to think about it that whatever happens to us in life, no matter to us, but what we see, touch, and take in through them represents what its nature seems to be, happens to us for the good of us. virtually nothing of what is present and possible for us to know in other Question: Some of your short stories make the point that we've lost our ways. This false sense of separation breeds fear and all the forms of right to be free, and what we need to do in order to regain it. Can you greed that shadow it. explain this idea a little further? Question: You talk about seeing the good when things look bad. Many people are seeing a lot of bad right now -- the economy has hurt many people and nature itself seems to be in upheaval. How can we see the good in events that seem to be so destructive? Guy: First, can we agree that freedom from whatever limits a human Affirmations being is always for the good of them? If so, then the reason that there's always something good in what seems to be bad, is that the moment for Living Fearlessly comes along as a gift from God to say, "Hey, look at what you are clinging to." It's not the thing, but the sense of self whose very premise is It is never in my best interest to suffer, no matter a limitation. The opportunity to see that is why there's always something how inwardly convincing it may feel to me that I good in what seems to be bad. will be betraying myself or someone else if I don’t. Question: You say, "To let go and flow with Real Life." Why is it so hard to just let go? Guy Finley Guy: People wrongly equate the idea of letting go with a condition outside of themselves seen as being responsible for the conflict they're sdhiudwffweygwhsdiudsfsdifdygdfsygdsgsadugsdusdgedgasdugs in. 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