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.

Every moment is the right moment to start seeing ourselves as we are... regardless of whoever may be our "partner" of the moment. Maybe it's the person in that long line with us, complaining about how slowly things are moving. There's no better time to practice seeing yourself than when some part of you can't wait to "pounce" on the impatience of someone else. How about being ...

Topic: Escape the Invisible Prison Most People Pay to Live In! (Classroom Talk 11/22/23)

Topics covered: Spend less time trying to prove yourself, and more time BEING yourself. But "being yourself" is not what the world conditions all of us to believe; Connect the experiences that you don't want with the consciousness that creates those same experiences; Fear lies beneath the compulsion to be seen as someone important; What is important is to understand the importance of life. And what is most definitely NOT important is to...

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.

Topic: The Unimaginable Power of Being at Peace with Everyone You Know (Classroom Talk 9/7/22)

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.

Topic: End the Unseen Suffering Inherent in Seeking an "Entitled" Life (8/28/19 Classroom Talk)

Topic: End the Unseen Suffering Inherent in Seeking an "Entitled" Life (8/28/19 Classroom Talk)