1.0Letting Go with Guy Finleyhttps://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/lettinggoGuy Finleyhttps://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/lettinggo/author/gfinleyThe Greatness Beyond Ourselves - Letting Go with Guy Finleyrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="RYSWdNXAA8"><a href="https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/lettinggo/2012/07/the-greatness-beyond-ourselves.html">The Greatness Beyond Ourselves</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/lettinggo/2012/07/the-greatness-beyond-ourselves.html/embed#?secret=RYSWdNXAA8" width="600" height="338" title="“The Greatness Beyond Ourselves” — Letting Go with Guy Finley" data-secret="RYSWdNXAA8" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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The mastery of anything, including ourselves, begins with the faith that we are not here on earth to be perfected according to an image we hold of ourselves, but rather, to allow perfection to work its way upon us, so that only the awareness of something greater than ourselves can draw us into a greatness beyond…