In this excerpt from a recent classroom talk, Guy talks about how agreeing to live with fear, worry, anxiety, depression -- or any other negative state -- is the same as living in the "dread zone," a psychological state of useless suffering that prevents us from being alive and aware in the present moment.

The depth to which we see something is directly proportionate to the consciousness that is attending to what is being presented in the moment. As we are now our lives are very superficial. But we're meant to be in relationship with life at a much deeper level.

Catch every thought that wants to make you the star of the moment. See that talking to yourself about "What does this mean and how am I going to get through it" is actually self-importance having its way with you. Reach for another relationship with life in which you don't have to think incessantly and painfully about how each and every moment affects you and your imaginary reputation.

Classroom Talk: 11/22/2023 - The "importance" of any given moment is inseparable from whatever may be the momentary sense of "self" responsible for lending it that significance. If we are to have any hope of realizing what is actually important in this life -- which is to see through the illusion of a separate self -- then we must be honest enough to admit the following truth: What really makes one moment seem more important than any other...

Student Talks: 4/28/2023 - Key Lesson: Once we realize that living within the limits of the known is the same as the limitation of our spiritual possibilities, there is no recourse other than to depart the safety of all that we have been... in favor of discovering all that we're created to be.

Classroom Talk: 9/7/2022 - Nothing makes us more common, more like all those we constantly judge, than being identified with a false sense of self that would have us believe that -- by some "act of God" -- we're so much better than all we see.

Student Talks: 11/15/2019 - Key Lesson: Be wary of any "wisdom" that can feel insulted or impugned by some thoughtless comment, or otherwise challenging condition: real intelligence cannot be insulted... let alone agree to be defined, confined, or otherwise defiled by some unconscious reaction unfolding in the dark of oneself.

Classroom Talk: 8/28/2019 - We cannot separate the pain, the sorrow, nor for that matter, the mounting rage of this world from what amounts to nothing less than our unseen demands upon it.

Classroom Talk: 7/7/2019 - It is impossible to know the secret holiness of any moment, to realize its divine purpose -- let alone accept your role and responsibility in its appearance -– and resist what the light of that moment has come to reveal to you, about yourself, at the same time.

Classroom Talk: 6/2/2019 - I have no problem with today... Other than the errant dreams that would steal in to disturb it. My course through each minute and hour is set by what consciousness and conscience call out as my duty; In this compass I have complete confidence. So that whether winds blow fair or foul... is of no consequence to me...

Student Talks: 3/6/2019 - Key Lesson: Everything works out best -- for each, and all of us -- whenever we agree to put discovering the truth (of ourselves) ahead of some comforting, but imagined idea about a "wonderful" life to come; not only that, the more we prove this action to ourselves, the more...