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  1. Participate in the Moment Instead of Naming It
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    Participate in the Moment Instead of Naming It

    • Posted: 03/14/23
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    Every time you get negative, you drain from yourself something vital to the development of your soul. But every time you catch yourself in those dark waters that carry you away, you add something to your development by working to understand them. The source of those dark, raging waters is an illusion. It is the illusion that is part and parcel with the present activity of your mind...

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  2. Love Contains All Possibilities
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    Stop Limiting Your Possibilities

    • Posted: 10/02/21
    • Meeting: 09/12/21
    • Time: 00:03:40
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    In this answer to a viewer's question, Guy explains that setting so-called "boundaries" for yourself is the same as rejecting what the moment would reveal to you about yourself. There is no need to psychologically protect yourself using thought. Conscious awareness of yourself is what offers perfect safety.

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  3. Silent Seeing
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    Silent Seeing

    • Posted: 12/12/09
    • Meeting: 12/09/09
    • Time: 00:02:00
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    In this short talk, Guy expands upon the idea covered in the talk titled Dying to the Defensive Self, of using a spiritual blind in our interior work. He reminds us of the verse...
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  4. Wake Up and Escape Fear's Unseen Prison
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    Wake Up and Escape Fear's Unseen Prison

    • Posted: 05/23/17
    • Meeting: 05/21/17
    • Time: 00:51:00
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    Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 29, 2017. It is impossible to protect a fear, and to cooperate with the Divine Work of perfecting your self at the same time.
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  5. Stop Letting the Fear of Being Misunderstood Make a Monkey Out of You
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    Stop Letting the Fear of Being Misunderstood Make a Monkey Out of You (Student Talks)

    • Posted: 07/04/16
    • Meeting: 07/01/16
    • Time: 00:58:00
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    The fear of being misjudged belongs to a mechanical part of you that doesn't understand anything, let alone the fear it has of its own tendency to instantly turn dark and defensive should anyone dare question its nearly perfect understanding.
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  6. Never Again Give Your Life to a 'NIMP'
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    Never Again Give Your Life to a 'NIMP'

    • Posted: 06/26/13
    • Meeting: 06/12/13
    • Time: 01:00:00
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    Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of July 1, 2013. Without some form of unconscious identification to nourish its proliferation, no negative state -- no punishing anger, fear, or worry -- can grow beyond the boundaries of that level of consciousness from out of which it appears.
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  7. The Easily Offended is the Self Most Defended
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    The Easily Offended is the Self Most Defended (Student Talks)

    • Posted: 01/16/13
    • Meeting: 01/11/13
    • Time: 00:47:00
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    The smaller the self, the bigger the sense of offense it takes whenever anyone steps up to challenge one of its precious self-images.
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  8. Start Using All the Gifts That Life Gives to You
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    Start Using All the Gifts That Life Gives to You (Student Talks)

    • Posted: 07/31/12
    • Meeting: 07/13/12
    • Time: 00:59:00
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    Spiritually speaking, blaming life for revealing a limitation of yours is like getting angry at the water in a swimming pool (into which you just fell) because... You never learned how to swim!...
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  9. Walk Away From the World of Being a Broken Human Being
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    Walk Away From the World of Being a Broken Human Being (Student Talks)

    • Posted: 06/02/12
    • Meeting: 05/25/12
    • Time: 00:53:00
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    Disagree with the opinion of what others would have you believe is true, and they will secretly resent you; but quietly refuse to argue about anything with these same people, and they will openly cry out that you have abandoned them.
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  10. Stop Shaking and Aching for Nothing
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    Stop Shaking and Aching for Nothing (Student Talks)

    • Posted: 05/11/09
    • Meeting: 05/08/09
    • Time: 00:51:00
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    Trying to "fix" the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.
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  11. Saturdays with Guy (7/13/2019)
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    Saturdays with Guy (7/13/2019)

    • Posted: 07/15/19
    • Meeting: 07/13/19
    • Time: 00:43:35
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    Topics covered: "Doing" is the expression of a consciousness that doesn't exist apart from what it needs to fix; The sheep knows the voice of the shepherd; You are always in a triad; This works changes what you are obedient to; You can't see light or meaning directly; The Beatitudes are a series of three bridges; Thought says, "Hi, I'm Mayhem!"

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  12. Saturdays with Guy (12/31/2016)
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    Saturdays with Guy (12/31/2016)

    • Posted: 01/04/17
    • Meeting: 12/31/16
    • Time: 00:30:00
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    Topics covered: 'You're just going to have to drive yourself crazy'; You can't make a quiet mind and an open heart with thought; This work is to help develop all of your parts, not just the intellect; You need to be one with events that happen, which thought can't do; Contemplation is different from thinking about what happened; Thought can only imagine that it's working out problems; We resis...
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The Essential Laws of Fearless Living

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