Classroom Talk: 11/14/2004 - The thing so intoxicating about our thoughts is that we are forever distilling them from the content of ourselves, never realizing that the gilded cup from which we drink can never hold anything in it but a measure of our own past.
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Classroom Talk: 9/29/2004 - No one fails who falls in the battle to be a better human being, for while the "flesh" is often weak -- Spirit is indomitable -- and always rises anew, strengthened for its experience and ready to start again.
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Classroom Talk: 10/22/2003 - When we walk around unaware of what thoughts and feelings are being projected upon the screen of our own mind, it is a safe bet that we will soon be watching a horror show.
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Classroom Talk: 9/5/2003 - No animal hides in shame for being itself. No tree bends to the opinion of others. No wind avoids the granite face before it. Only human beings cultivate ways in which to fawn or cower before one another, and all for the sake of winning nothing but a fleeting feeling that for their cunning they have made it through one more day.
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Classroom Talk: 8/1/2003 - The difference between being angry with ourselves, or at someone else, is found only in the image held in our mind at which we lash out. Either way, the effect of this unconscious fire in us is always the same: It is we who get burned!
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Classroom Talk: 5/7/2003 - When we are awakened at night from a nightmare, we realize with a start that we had been sleeping; but when a dark state overcomes us in the daylight hours, we believe we are awake, never suspecting that our bad dream unfolds as it does because we remain asleep within ourselves.
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Classroom Talk: 11/6/2002 - Only a mind awakened to itself knows the cost of being spiritually asleep. While the mind slumbering in itself knows nothing -- not even the cost it pays for remaining asleep.
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Classroom Talk: 7/31/2002 - Part 1: When you can look a worry or anger in the eye and tell it, "There is nothing between us anymore," then you are well on your way to the birth of a new kind of freedom in you that nothing can oppose or ever take away from you! Part 2: Our problems, what amounts to our lives defined by these protracted burdens, become weightless the moment we cease to identify with them...
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Classroom Talk: 7/28/2002 - Part 1: We must work to employ the Truths we want to know before they can impart to us the Living Knowledge of those new freedoms that only they can grant to us through their Perfect Works. Part 2: The True Spiritual Path is not about a "me" with a "Thee" to protect me from my problems. No, it is about the conscious surrender of that "me" in favor of the awakened awareness of a remembered "we"...
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The cost of peace is what we bear within us when we cease blaming others for the conflict we feel. --Guy Finley This is a special talk that Guy gave to a small group of students that was thought-provoking, liberating, and shocking, all at the same time. It provides deep insight into the real causes behind escalating global conflict, using the Israel-Gaza war as a model to reveal the unse...
It's unnatural for a human being to suffer over past hurts -- to continue to relive painful experiences -- to mourn over past losses so that nothing new can enter and revitalize their life. If we are to have new experiences and new energy surge into us, we have to let go of old impressions and make room for new ones to come in. But anyone who has ever tried to let go of...
Classroom Talk: 11/25/2001 - All who are asleep to themselves live in the same world of worry and woe, fear and frustration, regardless if they dwell in rambling shacks or richly appointed castles. The only difference between spiritually sleeping people is the temporary nature of the dream they dream from which they have no choice but to be painfully awakened.
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