{"id":4036,"date":"2015-04-08T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2015-04-05T21:48:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T01:48:18","slug":"let-the-light-reveal-your-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2015\/04\/let-the-light-reveal-your-weakness.html","title":{"rendered":"Let the Light Reveal Your Weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When our attention is drawn to how much we don\u2019t want to be what we are in any given moment, we can\u2019t see ourselves as we actually are! This means that all forms of resistance-born reactions are blinding agents; they mask the fact of the moment with powerful, unwanted sensations that steal our attention so that instead of being self-aware\u2014conscious of the whole of us\u2014we are aware only of the painful reaction and what it points to as being the cause of our suffering.<\/p>\n<p>Despising ourselves for missing the mark doesn\u2019t prove we could have hit the mark and didn\u2019t. It proves only that the unconscious nature involved in this kind of pain doesn\u2019t know what the true mark is or else it wouldn\u2019t be tearing into itself. This deception is as deep as it is cunning and dark: hating ourselves for our weakness is the way secret weakness passes itself off as strength.<\/p>\n<p>Real spiritual strength is realized, slowly, by daring to detect and drop these blind negative states that we\u2019ve been allowing to define us. And, believe it or not, this choice to no longer agree to ache over what you are not is the most difficult part of one\u2019s work to be free. After all, when there is no one and nothing left within oneself to blame for one\u2019s weakness, it\u2019s also pretty clear that turning to one\u2019s \u201cself\u201d for help is like asking a donkey for the directions to heaven.<\/p>\n<p>The time will come, if we persist, when we will no longer fear seeing our weakness but rather realize its presence as a shadow that only appears as it does because of a living light that serves to reveal it. And the greater this understanding grows, the greater the strength of this light becomes our own.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourimmortalself.com\/special\/beliefnet\">www.YourImmortalSelf.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When our attention is drawn to how much we don\u2019t want to be what we are in any given moment, we can\u2019t see ourselves as we actually are! This means that all forms of resistance-born reactions are blinding agents; they mask the fact of the moment with powerful, unwanted sensations that steal our attention so&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[1050,2229,2228,702,732,550,1535,1439,235,201],"class_list":["post-4036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enlightenment-self-realization","category-negative-states","tag-character","tag-despising-weakness","tag-fear-of-weakness","tag-illusions","tag-seeing-through-the-masks","tag-self-honesty","tag-self-judgment","tag-self-loathing","tag-spiritual-strength","tag-weakness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Let the Light Reveal Your Weakness - Letting Go with Guy Finley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2015\/04\/let-the-light-reveal-your-weakness.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Let the Light Reveal Your Weakness - Letting Go with Guy Finley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When our attention is drawn to how much we don\u2019t want to be what we are in any given moment, we can\u2019t see ourselves as we actually are! 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