If we are not watchful of the activity of our own mind, then our mind is
In finding any true teaching, there is always the chance that we can become wrongly identified with the conceptual ideas in the teaching, so much so that we begin to draw our life just from the ideas alone. But on the other hand, hearing and studying true ideas is a necessary first step because we know that a true teaching contains right ideas that we need to hear. The potential stumbling bloc...
We don't know much about real feelings, and in order to learn more about them, we must first discover what are not real feelings. When a thought suddenly comes to you, such as the thought of eating your favorite food, and your mind begins to go through all of the details associated with that thought, the desire for that food is strengthened by the image that the mind has produced. And also str...
Eventually you are going to find, through your own work and the opening of your own interior eyes, that which you are intended to find along the road. However, the opening of one's spiritual eyes is a lot different from assessing and mulling over spiritual knowledge with one's intellect. The opening of spiritual eyes means that, now and again, you catch a glimpse of the invisible movement of t...
Do we resist or embrace events that we do not want? The answer is that we resist them. And how much time do we spend not wanting what the moment presents to us? If we're honest with ourselves, the majority of our time is spent not wanting the moment. So we must come to the conclusion that, in large part, our lives are spent resisting life. Can I get negative towards another person without fir...
"To thine own self be true, and surely it must follow as day the night, thou canst not be false to any man." This is an ideal that strikes directly at the heart of human beings. In the setting out to attain this ideal, many people buy books and study courses in order to learn how to be true to oneself. And although the reading of books may be a necessary first step, most of humanity stops the...
What was it that made growing up hard to do? Have you ever thought about it? What made growing up hard to do was that the meaning of our lives kept changing. When we were young the meaning of life was given to us by a world whose meanings always proved themselves to be empty. What we have called the meaning of our life has turned out to be the source of our pain so many times, that at a certa...
Thoughts and emotions are actually things independent of the person who believes that he or she is responsible for their actions. You live in an invisible sea of thoughts and feelings and emotions all of which are a product of a system that is constantly recirculating itself.
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Guy answers the question "what is the difference between higher and lower thinking" as part of the student Q&A during our Holiday Banquet Weekend.
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Topics covered: To belong to the greater life that is eternal is the source of real joy in life; The real interior work is about helping a person remember what they have forgotten about what is true; The joy of being in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing, is that the moment is complete in itself. There is nothing residual; Psychologically and spiritually speaking, the only thing we ever...
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Topics covered: Part of the authentic journey is the gradual realization that there is something in you that never stops hungering and thirsting after new impressions; When we wake up in the morning and begin the new day looking at life through the conclusions that thought has already made, then we are looking at yesterday's news; We as human beings are created with the desire...
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