There are no enemies without someone, or something to blame for our pain...

Topics covered: Thought dilutes the necessary experience of yourself; There is no development without an inner struggle in which a person will get banged up; What we get sucked into is the sensation of 'I' that fights with life; Some examples of false flags (something that seems to be on your side but is actually a deception and not for your best interests) include blame, plans, ideologies, lovely feelings, believing in people, believing in anything...

Topics Covered: Are we a human dreaming we are a butterfly, or are we a butterfly dreaming we are a human; This entire level of consciousness is a dream; We are never born and we will never die; Life is in a constant play of rebalancing; Pain pushes us to push other people; Recurrence vs. rebirth; The wave appears in time but the ocean is eternal; You love to talk to yourself about yourself, but...

Topics covered: Discussion of Guy's new book on Relationship Magic (click to learn more); The most abundant and valuable resource on the planet is our relationships; Love does not harm another human being; It is pain that picks any fight; We have an addiction to a false sense of self; No one else is responsible for my feelings; Our partners are in our lives to help perfect us, not to punish us...

Topics covered: Discussion of Guy's new book on Relationship Magic; Our relationships as they are now are very tenuous; Real love never disappears or separates; This book is a flashlight to show us what is within us; Our pain becomes aware to us in our relationships; It isn't the other person who needs to change, it is I who needs to change; We are in each others lives to be perfected; Why is...

Currently, I am quite lost... among many issues, the loss of a loved one, marriage problems, and unrelenting stress at work. I seek guidance for a new way to see these "givens" in a better way. At times I have answers, but as more circumstances arise, I feel buried in the machination of events. I sense that the individual scenarios have a common denominator... I am just not able to see it. (Fr...

Here is an enigma wrapped in a paradox: we cannot buy the love of the Divine; no good deed can produce the Presence of what is Holy and Everlasting; a billion plaintive tears are powerless to invoke even the smallest touch of Grace; and yet, at every point along the upper path that leads us into the Light of Love's Perfection, we get only what we pay for...nothing more, nothing less.

There are parts of our psychic system that reject the shocks -- the lessons needed for our evolution because they imagine they're already flying above the world of troubles. It is this mistaken sense of self that stands between us and true self-transformation. Nothing that resists life can hope to learn from it. Until we can embrace the lessons that ride into our lives on the back of events...

Classroom Talk: 7/21/2024 - Until the peace and pleasure found within us is equal to - or greater than any consolation found outside of ourselves - then our power to be patient, loving, and profitable in every moment is, at best, conditional; nothing better serves to sustain anger, frustration, and fear than being identified with a level of self whose life is founded, at best, upon the sands of passing circumstances.

Topics Covered: God enters as self-love exits; You cannot separate useless suffering from the level of consciousness that produces that same suffering; When the real truth about suffering is revealed, most people run from it; Why else would we try to escape our suffering unless we believed that there was a way to do it?; Resistance to pain is not the same as the pain being resisted...

Student Talks: 8/13/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: Any sense of discouragement that wants to drag us down into its dark world, where it feeds on the feelings of hopelessness that it loves to create -- appears when, and as it does -- for a single reason: to keep us from realizing that there is no such thing as failure for those who will consciously walk into... and then through whatever may...

Topics Covered: If you want to be safe, you must have concluded that you are not; The condition that we are being convinced to avoid is a conclusion that we have reached about it; Come to end of all that you can do for yourself, but don't let it end there; Thought can't understand the holy spirit; Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven; Love does not make a single demand...