Our spiritual task, assuming we are stirred to seek this truth of ourselves, is to awaken ourselves to the Light that first invites us, and then unites us with its uncompromised life.

Topics covered: Discussion of the lunch exercise to consciously change your posture while eating; Taking the easy way; Bearing the pain vs. paining the bear; Intention leads to a glimpse, and a glimpse strengthens the intention; Deliberately creating conditions under which you are guaranteed to see into mechanical behavior; When you really understand something, there's no "you" apart from that...

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.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 5, 2018. The unconscious "self" that lives in the dark of us has no shape or form of its own... other than the one it creates -- and then identifies with -- as it weighs and measures all that moves in and out of its temporary existence. Its false -- and always alternating sense of superiority and insecurity -- is the unnatural byproduct of an eq...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 7, 2013. There is a conscious suffering that serves to ripen the soul, and then there is an unconscious suffering... that corrupts it, causing it to rot. So, we must choose wisely; because only by seeing the real difference between these two paths, and in consciously realizing their opposing purposes, can we discern which one serves our best i...

It is your spiritual right to decide what kind of thoughts and feelings are permitted to roam through your consciousness.

The wish and the work to be present -- to live in the Presence moment -- is the upper path. The “steps” alternate between complementary discoveries: first seeing within ourselves where and how we fall spiritually asleep...

If our sole wish, as we walk through this life, is to draw nearer to the heart of God, then with each step taken in that remembrance, we arrive.

Once we learn to see the recurring dissatisfaction with our present sense of self as a kind of spiritual thirst, instead of an endless spiritual desert, the temporary dryness of our heart will be seen, and recognized for what it is in reality: the necessary renewing -- and deepening -- of our innermost need for the Water of Life.

Topics covered: You are never alone; The mind is habituated to keeping unconscious company; You are in a sea of wisdom, an ocean of love, a body of perfect equilibrium; We try to use understanding to protect or add something to ourselves; Spiritual knowledge is neutral; True spiritual knowledge opens the door to sacrifice, not self-glorification; We see life with one eye closed.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 5, 2015. Part 1: Negative assumptions precede the appearance of a disturbing fear, much in the same way as a chill in the wind comes before the storm that it heralds. Part 2: Before you can know and win the freedom of watching some fearful state walk right by you, you must learn what it means to let it walk right up to you... without resisting...

Watch Guy's interview with host Rick Archer on the popular YouTube series, "Buddha at the Gas Pump."...