Topic: How to Dismiss Any Fearful Moment Before It Drags You Down (Classroom Talk 9/14/22)

Topics covered: Happiness for human beings now is the momentary abatement of a fear; Worry is an instrument of fear, imagining what needs to be done in a time to come to find freedom from disturbances; Psychological fear does not exist outside of the mind's associations that validate the reality of the thing that is feared; There is no such thing as psychological fear without negative imagination...

Classroom Talk: 9/14/2022 - Freedom cannot be found in the east, or to the west; it doesn't wait somewhere north or south of those who go there in search of it. It's neither here, nor there; freedom is found wherever the willing soul agrees to meet and confront a fear.

Topic: 7 Ways to Recognize False Friends By the Lies They Tell (Classroom Talk 8/31/22)

Topics covered: There are a legion of false friends within us that we presently do not realize are false friends that deceive us through promises of comfort and consolation; The consciousness responsible for the conflict we feel doesn't change when you temporarily cover up the pain of the moment through a distraction of one kind or another; The same mind that creates the conflict...

Classroom Talk: 8/31/2022 - Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company!

How many of you know that, on any given day, you will be standing before a wall? Every single day, to one degree or another, a person runs into something like this: "God, I don't want that," "I wish I wasn't feeling this way," "Why are they doing those things they're doing?" "Oh my God, I've put on 5 pounds," "Oh no, look at the economy"... any one of a thousand different ways in which...

Saturdays with Guy (2/26/2022)

In this answer to a viewer's question, Guy explains that self-judgment cannot exist without an image of ourselves that we hold onto. To see this fact is the beginning of the end of painful judgment of both yourself and others.

Our resolve to live a real life, an awakened life, is strengthened when our self-study reveals that at any moment we're not consciously in command of ourselves, a mechanical nature is in charge of us, directing us to look for someone, something to blame for our pain.

Our feelings about the world that we see, with all its confusing colors and schemes, are reflections of our own internal life.