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.

Student Talks: 5/21/2021 - Key Lesson: Enlightenment is not an "achievement" because part of its realization is there's no one there to claim it... any more than one can "own" sunlight. (It is) a level of being that sees, effortlessly, the following truth: Real Life is secretly a single, beautiful movement incapable of contradicting itself...

Topic: The 7 Elements of Enlightenment (5/12/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Very little is understood about the nature of what is called "enlightenment." It is a level of consciousness in which the person understands, without needing thought, that everything they need is already provided; No person is enlightened. Instead, there is a relationship with that which allows the human being to be enlightened. There cannot be a relationship with...

Classroom Talk: 5/16/2021 - Enlightenment is not an "achievement" because part of its realization is there's no one there to claim it... any more than one can "own" sunlight. (It is) a level of being that sees, effortlessly, the following truth: Real Life is secretly a single, beautiful movement incapable of contradicting itself. The more we're...

Topics Covered: Peace is not something that comes later. Peace is not something that we create. Peace already exists in the middle of a storm; We are intended to be living instruments of peace and kindness; Enlightenment is not a static condition; If you do not see the whole, then you are not a whole human being; Everyday is spent doing what you love, whether it is spent...

Classroom Talk: 5/12/2021 - Just as all the qualities of the ocean can be found in a single drop of its water, so do all the infinite expressions of consciousness -- high and low, light and dark -- dwell within our True Self: each and all… a drop of the Divine.

Topic: Take the Short Road Back Home (3/1/20 Classroom Talk)

Topic: Take the Short Road Back Home (3/1/20 Classroom Talk)

Classroom Talk: 3/1/2020 - Real Life is a miracle revealing itself. The eyes that can see this truth are those no longer blinded by (all) the empty promises inherent in the illusion of passing time; to see things as they are...is to be what you are; to be what you are, without wanting to become anything more or less... is enlightenment.

Classroom Talk: 2/5/2020 -Part 1: Effortless contentment appears as unconscious resistance -- along with its "partner in conflict" -- involuntary insistence, disappears. Part 2: Spiritual freedom is not found by avoiding what disturbs us, but rather by the deliberate interior work of illuminating whatever still dwells in the dark of us that is...

Student Talks: 9/18/2019 - Key Lesson: Awakening to the truth of oneself serves one purpose: dying to oneself. Dying to oneself serves one purpose: rebirth. And rebirth is... the purpose and fulfillment of all relationships.