We command what we understand. What we don't understand, commands us. Conscious relationship is the road that leads to understanding and the final understanding of self.

Here's a special spiritual exercise designed to develop harmonious human relationships -- it's called the "You-I" Maneuver...

Topics covered: Discussion of Guy's new book on Relationship Magic; The same love that brought us together keeps us together when some of the thrill turns to a chill; We are here on this earth to fulfill our own spiritual possibility and highest attributes; We enter into relationships not knowing we place unseen demands on the other person to be responsible for making us feel whole, complete a...

The first challenge before any person who wants to find a way out of some hurtful codependent relationship is to see that while we do have the awareness required to interact with life -- and even to learn challenging new skills -- this level of awareness is not enough.

Topic: The Great Law of Loving Kindness That Protects and Perfects All of Your Relationships at the Same Time (Remastered Classic Talk)(Classroom Talk 3/19/25)

To grow into a new and higher order of peace we must remember at the first sign of resisting some unwanted moment that we must work to detect and dismiss any tendency we have to identify with that negative reaction...

Topics covered: Relationships are the ground for all lessons in life; Our partners aren't here to simply please us; Limitations are shown to us through our relationships; Relationships makes us either better people or more bitter people; Fights do nothing to heal pain; Real problems in fights are deeper than what the fight is about...

Topic: Transform Any Painful Relationship into a Spiritual Triumph (Classroom Talk 4/3/24)

Part I: Perfection is not an idealized final form but a living relationship being unfolded in the Light. Part II: Only the practice of Perfection can perfect us because It's work brings us into humility and leads us into a willingness to let go of ourselves for the love of a Greater Cause.

Spiritually speaking... Knowledge, by itself, can change nothing real. Effort without knowledge is directionless. Only knowledgeable efforts reveal the hidden structure of God's Reality and permit us to change our relationship to, and within, that Greater Life.

Until we are empowered by the indwelling Light to alter our perception of the darkness, and therein transform our unconscious relationship to it, we remain little more than servants to our suffering and nothing more than a part of the movement of the very darkness we fear and protest.

There are parts of us that would rather be punished by unkind people than have to spend one minute being alone, because the only way these same parts in us can exist is if they have someone to resent or somehow fear. In this case we remain in these ruinous relationships because the fear or emptiness we feel in even considering leaving them seems to be too much to bear on our own. Here's the k...