In this answer to a viewer's question, Guy talks about how we suffer uselessly every time we attempt to be seen as someone special, which is the same as avoiding awareness of ourselves as we are.

We already have all the pain that we need to change, but none of it is conscious. Until it becomes conscious, it is impossible to change. We live in illusion, perpetuate the pain, and even add more to it whenever we avoid seeing our actual condition in the present moment.

Classroom Talk: 5/10/2023 - Never fight with life; your struggle is not with what opposes you, but rather with what you have yet to understand about the opposing forces that live within you.

Classroom Talk: 12/16/2020 - Until we're able to see how the needs of others are the same as our own -- and awaken enough to witness a self-centered level of consciousness that would convince otherwise -- no one's true need, let alone our own can be fulfilled.

Topic: How to Recognize and Release Yourself from the Circle of Self-Induced Suffering (4/5/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 4/5/2020 - Psychologically speaking, the pain & bane of our life is not just mistaking today's troubling event as proof of tomorrow's pain, but actually ensuring that it will be... by unconsciously resisting what is nothing more than a dark image generated by (our own) negative imagination.

Guy provides deeper insight into ideas from recent talks as students report on their experiences and observations while working with various exercises. Topics include consciously watching a complaining nature within, and the difference between being a "teacher" of Truth and a living expression of it.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 19, 2018. You say your lines; I speak mine: A well-rehearsed play, Acted out in dreamtime. But when no one is the wiser, With the stage so dimly lit, None see that half of what is said... Is to no one there, Which suits the other half...just fine.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 12, 2018. What else are the untold number of lies -- "large and small" -- that we tell ourselves, or others, if not a trap we build in the now... only to be caught in it later?...

Topics covered: No negative state is a real feeling. Negative states are all born out of sheer resistance to a condition; Pure emotion is the result of a relationship between the observer and the observed. It's a feeling generated in the moment by the field that you are in; A real impression in any moment is the realization of your highest possibility in that same moment; You are always in a field of some kind, and everything you experience is a result of that field.