Integrity

Unconscious desire is the root of corruption. What I desire, what you desire -- whatever it may be -- we can find a way, as surely as the sun will rise, to justify what we want. And because we can justify what we want, it means, at any given point in time, the end will justify the means. "I need this because I was treated like this when I was growing up;" "I need this because I'm not as attractive as someone else;" "I have to have this because I'm getting older"...

In this answer to a viewer's question, Guy talks about how we do harm to ourselves and others with any action we take that has a motive behind it. When there is no self-motive, then there is only what is pure and good.

Student Talks: 3/07/2025 - The inevitable sense of emptiness that eventually nips at the heels of most men and women is the sudden realization that in spite of having "banked" a billion self-stimulating sensations -- even when all have been added up -- they still amount to nothing.

Topic: Discover the Invisible Path of Perfect Action (4/14/21 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Instead of being used by the world, use the world to discover your purpose for being here; There is no power in the universe that has the authority to make you act against yourself or others; How do we stop harming ourselves and others? Start being harmless. Be in the right place in yourself, doing the right thing; What we really seek cannot be found in any condition...

Classroom Talk: 4/14/2021 - Hidden within the opposing forces is a Light -- a quiet Intelligence -- that cannot be induced to act against itself. Awakening to... and becoming aware of this Wisdom releases one from the bondage born of struggling to be, or not to be. Understood properly, all such opposing forces contain and reveal their own gateway...

That we should search only our own conscience for confirmation of what isgood and true, this is the best definition of integrity. For that which is goodand true is not social in nature, but spiritual in need and in deed.

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!"