In this answer to a caller's question, Guy explains that the true purpose of interior storms, trials and challenges is to shake us loose from the painful illusions and sense of self that we unknowingly cling to.

In this short video, Guy talks about being self-conscious: thinking about how you should look a certain way or be a certain kind of person. Becoming aware of the pain inherent in thinking about yourself is the first step to freeing yourself from it.

What's the first thing that any of us do when trouble comes? The first thing that happens when we get into trouble is that we start thinking. Our little think machine just gets geared up, and it starts to go. And it goes. Now, what is it thinking about? It's thinking about the trouble it's in and it's thinking about ways in which to get out of trouble...

Topic: Wake Up and Walk Out of the World of Worry (10/7/20 Classroom Talk)

Topics Covered: Worry is not only a lie, but it also steals our life; Life is always creating and revealing at the same time. The very unfolding of creation causes a revelation in us; they are a singularity; We are always in a new relationship with the moment, but we are not aware of that relationship; Our tendency is feel as if we are under attack when we feel pain in any unwanted moment...

Classroom Talk: 10/7/2020 - The only thing that worrying does is waste the time and energy we need to shed light on a painful sense of self that exists only for as long as it has something to worry over.

Student Talks: 9/11/2020 - Key Lesson: Whenever we are taken over by a negative state -- and remain identified with our resistance to it -- we may not know it, but in these moments... we are as good as “dead.” Yes, it feels like we’re alive, but this powerful sense of self is really just the presence of our (own) painful resistance to what that...

Classroom Talk: 9/6/2020 - Whenever we are taken over by a negative state -- and remain identified with our resistance to it -- we may not know it, but in these moments... we are as good as "dead." Yes, it feels like we're alive, but this powerful sense of self is really just the presence of our (own) painful resistance to what that moment came to reveal...

Student Talks: 7/10/2020 - Key Lesson: The only reason we live in the shadow of any fear or sorrow -- let alone agree to suffer the dark reactions that justify such self-limitation -- is for the absence of a Divine Light that would show us -- if we would only dare step into it -- that the threat behind any unwanted moment is as unreal as...

Classroom Talk: 7/5/2020 - The only reason we live in the shadow of any fear or sorrow -- let alone agree to suffer the dark reactions that justify such self-limitation -- is for the absence of a Divine Light that would show us -- if we would only dare step into it -- that the threat behind any unwanted moment is as unreal as is the fearful level...

Topics Covered: Someone has to be the first; The healing of pain is in its revelation; Stop analyzing the pain and just see it instead; No reaction can heal itself; Do not oppose what opposes you; Every denial of the appearance of pain is the perpetuation of the consciousness responsible for it; Resistance to any unwanted condition is attributing power to it; If healing does not start with...

Classroom Talk: 5/13/2020 - An unconscious mind identifies with the (ceaseless) reactions that dominate its attention, and -- as a consequence -- isn’t so much “ruled” by them... as it doesn’t know any better than to listen to, and then obey their misguided conclusions. While an awakened mind sees it has nothing in common with the...