We know in our heart this life, as it is, isn’t all there is. Knowing this fact has been a fuel that stirs us to seek something greater. But we get fooled. We accept substitutes for that Greater Life. Guy Finley explains one of the main limitations in our quest to know that new way of living. We don’t understand we can’t enter into that Greater Life through our own will. That Life is never-endingly trying to give itself to us, but it cannot enter into us when our intention is to take from the moment.

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