In this Saturday discussion Guy focuses on value and purpose by explaining that all false purposes stem from the belief that the world exists for us. But if we could learn to see that every level of energy represents a distinct level of possibility...

Questions: Disillusionment about the spiritual teacher and path I've been studying; How to properly thank my father and deal with his imminent death; How do I balance sadness and faith; I'm having trouble dealing with a recent relationship breakup; Clarification about the meaning of the word 'evil' in scripture; What is the lower nature; Observing my changing 'I's'; How can I reconcile dark ac...

Topics covered: Sensation, emotion, and intellect try to pass themselves off as love, but are not; We've lost the ability to feel life; You find your way on the inner path through experience; There is no burden that someone else is carrying around that isn't ours, too; Only the heart is in relationship with real life; The last thing I want to see is the burden of being me; Learning to ask, 'Wh...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of August 3, 2015. Part 1: The love of any moment is inseparable from the sacrifice we must make to be in it. Part 2: Learning (how) to ask for a conscious relationship with the Divine begins and ends in the single supernatural action of giving ourselves to Him, to His Life. Only when we see -- and then agree to embody these seemingly opposing motions as...

Occasionally, for all of us, we accidentally enter into the flow of the Now. We could be skiing, skating, doing yoga, playing golf, and suddenly our activity aligns us with the flow of that moment. Emotionally we can enter accidentally into the Now when we look out and see the sun breaking through the clouds or we catch the evening light as it shades trees differently. Intellectually we can enter into the Now when we have an insight and an epiphany comes.

Just as our bodies grow healthy or not, according to what we take into our mouths, so too do we grow into wisdom, strength, or grace according to what we attend to with our mind. Our thoughts, like all energetic life forms, attract to themselves natures like themselves. The thoughts of a fellow not only flock together, but seek and are sought out by similar invisible creatures...

Topics covered: Wherever anything is, according to its nature and what that relationship is, it is always exactly where it needs to be to receive exactly what it needs to receive; We want to be free because it’s too painful to be where we are. Our suffering proves to us that we don’t want to suffer; We are always exactly where we need to be in order to fulfill the purpose we have been placed here for; What we are tempted by in all instances, with no exception...

Here's an insight into the real reason why virtually everyone is always in an internal rush of some kind: The false self is but a fleeting identity appearing as the momentary opposite -- a transient reflection -- of whatever is seen in the stream of passing time amidst its ceaseless impressions. This temporary sense of self fears its own disappearance, and so it rushes to consummate its rela...

Remastered Classic Talk: 04/13/16 - No worldly acclaim or possession can ever make us feel whole, let alone free us from that irreconcilable fear that comes with feeling ourselves as apart from others, and from life itself. Only by consistent, persistent interior work to remain awake and watchful can we place ourselves in a conscious relationship with higher, eternal influences... under whose authority are we released, at once, from the illusion of isolation and the dreadful sense of desperation that comes with it.

 

 

Student Talks: 12/06/2024 - The spiritual journey is not a movement through time, as if one travels from "here to there"; rather, it is an indwelling realization of the interaction of celestial forces giving birth to an immaculate conception; and where, for one's awareness of this relationship, one's sense of self ceases to be a mere effect – an unconscious byproduct born of being identified with some passing event – and instead, one begins to realize oneself as a partner in the Divine revelation of Life.

Topics covered: The mind seeks in time what can only be given in the present moment, which is a relationship with the Divine that is already being given to you; Tension is the gap between what you imagine you need and how long it takes to get there; You will never find peace in a time to come. It doesn't exist there. The idea of a "time to come" is the very disturbance in which you live because you believe in things that you don't understand...

The mind that thinks in order to understand life believes it can see, but (it) can't; while the mind that sees doesn't need to think to understand life; (it) has no need for belief...