Far more important to our inner success than coming upon so-called secret "how-to" practices -- or those who would teach them -- is the work to awaken our awareness of our need to be more awake. It is this awareness alone that remains our true friend and ally upon the path. Here is why: Our willingness to remain in the emerging awareness -- this Light in the darkness of ourselves -- helps t...

One of the most difficult aspects of true inner work is the gradual, but necessary, discovery of just how divided one is within him- or herself. It sounds good to be an inner-adventurer, to "boldly go where no one has gone before"...but in practice, it's another whole story. Our present sense of self is based, almost entirely, on a flimsy interior network of associated thoughts and feelings,...

Remastered Classic Talk: 9/14/16 - Part 1: Real-life is the ceaseless expression of converging celestial forces as altogether they manifest what "cries out" to be harmonized in creation by the (merciful and loving) will of the Creator.

Part 2: Most everything that we think we "see"... isn't as it appears to be; that's why "wait and watch" is the true path that leads to the summit of higher self-knowledge.

Classroom Talk: 2/8/2025 - Pretending to be a loving person, while inwardly being resentful, is pain; A nice deep breath will always help you to digest more of the many impressions that are raining down on you; The secret source of our painful, ongoing imperfections is our fear of them; We don't see the judgment in ourselves because we are identified with what we are judging; Creation is an unfinished business...

Topics covered: The only thing that sleeping human beings see are the reasons -- outside of themselves -- for their anxiety, anger, fear and negativity; It seems mandatory to have enemies because that nature feels as though everyone and everything is pressing-in on it; What we presently call love is dependent upon outside conditions giving us what we want; The real golden rule is: Don't do to others what you don't want done to you...

Topics covered: Discussion of Guy's new book Relationship Magic; What good is a spiritual practice if it can't be applied to my day-to-day life; People are brought into our lives for our mutual perfection; We don't really know much about real love; We bring unseen expectations into each moment; No one is perfect, but we can use our imperfections to help one another; We don't know how to use di...

Topics covered: The purpose of your work at this stage of development is the continual realization that you're nothing; Your task is to see, not to be; Our tendency is to love the feeling of being absorbed; We are intended to be an experience; Personality is a machine; Your spiritual work gives you new things to remember and a new place within yourself to integrate them; It's the task of the a...

Topics covered: What does it mean to live in wholeness; Resistance strengthens the part of us that resists; Life is meant to reveal a series of self-discoveries; A fearless life is understanding that all things good happen to those for whom the good is all things; Love thine enemies because they show you what you are asleep to in your own nature; Learning to say 'you go one without me' to nega...

When the student is ready, the teacher appears; The purpose of each moment is liberation; Turning your cheek not 7 times, but 70 times; We can't resist something and learn from it at the same time; Five words to end conflict: "Let me get this one!"; Awareness has no judgement in it; Love flourishes because sacrifice leads the way; There is no such thing as a bad fact about yourself; Five quick...

The best possible response to any given moment should be as new (to us) as is the appearance of that new moment itself...

Every relationship that we have in our life -- our contact with each person, place, and event -- serves a very special, if yet to be realized, purpose: it is a mirror that reveals things to us about ourselves that can be realized in no other way. I think this is one of the reasons that so many of us love to be out and about in that great showroom of life called Mother Nature.

No anxious state exists apart from the illusion that the security, happiness, and wholeness you long for exists somewhere outside of you -- "in a time to come." Then why do we go on embracing anxious thoughts and feelings that do nothing but steal from us our love of life? The surprising answer to this question is the same as opening the door to a life free of anxious thoughts and feelings. W...