Uncertainty

In this short video, Guy explains that the genuine love of something does not concern itself with ambitious achievements, but is instead a calling to learn about ourselves and gain self-knowledge through what we love.

The whole idea of turning straw into gold is connected to using any unwanted moment to gain a whole new level of understanding and to connect to a higher level of consciousness that is not afraid of the moment.

"Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, lies the seed that, with the sun's love, in the spring becomes the rose." ~ "The Rose" by Bette Midler. When you find yourself in circumstances that seem difficult and dark, give your attention to the remembrance of the greater possibility that lies within the moment. In the light of that awareness, what has been concealed is revealed...

Topics covered: The problem is not the conditions in the world outside of us. The problem is the consciousness that looks out at the world; The world is in the mess that it is in because everyone in the world is trying to fix the mess; The antidote is in the venom. The real release from fear doesn't exist outside of the understanding that we are already free, but deceived.

Topics covered:  There is something waiting to grow in you that you are responsible for and that requires your attention; There is a difference between a familiar reaction, and our awareness of it; A mirror reflects whatever is before it, no matter what the object is. Neither the mirror nor the object being reflected is aware of each other -- they do not know each other -- but we can be aware of both at the same time.

Our new and highest possibilities can only be found at a point in time when, and where our efforts to transcend our present set of possibilities have been expired. Here’s why: It’s what we do when we come to the end of all that we know how to do that determines whether or not we realize a new order of understanding that waits for us just on the other side of the known.

It is impossible to let go of any painful thought or troubling feeling until we see the parts of us that are secretly clinging to it.

Classroom Talk: 9/25/2024 - Here's why it's impossible to (try and) protect ourselves from the fear of uncertainty or disappointment and - at the same time - hope to deepen our relationship with the Divine: self-realization is (our) atonement with the ceaseless revelation that emptiness and fullness are to one another...as are the four seasons that seemingly turn from one into the other.

Classroom Talk: 5/8/2024 - Here's why no rest can be found in the thought (of any time to come) regardless how temporarily comforting it may seem: there is no end to the thinker's desire to resolve the angst inherent in its own conflicted thinking...an endless search for a solution to its own unseen, self-induced suffering.

Classroom Talk: 12/22/2021 - Part 1: No matter what direction you may find yourself turned in at the outset of any given moment, just be sure that before you start walking nothing negative guides your footsteps... or you will never find your way back Home. Part 2: One of the greatest enigmas every true aspirant must meet -- and eventually transcend -- in their search for self-realization, is the following

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of August 20, 2018. Part 1: It's not the moment that's unsteady; it's our present level of self: a shack made of sticks that's shaken by any unexpected wind... and that fears its own shuddering.

Topics covered:  The antidote is in the venom. Likewise, the answer that you look for to ease a pain is not outside of the moment that the pain appears; It is the way that you see the moment that produces the feeling of being seized by it; Does a moment itself, as it is, have any psychological weight? No, the weight is in the consciousness that struggles against the moment.