In this short talk Guy adds a postscript to his full-length talk, ""Start Standing on Your Own Two Feet"", in which he clarifies that if we truly see that when we are angry, anxious, or worried we actually become the state of anger, anxiety or worry, then we also see that we are powerless in the face of that state. If it is our sincere wish to be different...

You have the Light to detect, dismiss, and to transcend the limiting influences of painful negative states such as doubt, worry, hatred, anger, and fear.

Getting angry, and then resenting someone who doesn't treat you with the respect you expect, is like using a sledgehammer to swat a fly that has dared to land on your forehead!

There was once a young prince who, having reached the age of majority, left home to live on a grand estate given to him by his father. He was told that if he ever needed help he was to put a light in the uppermost tower window, and his father would send a special horse and carriage to carry him to safety. However, his father also warned him that an evil wizard, an enemy of the kingdom, lived n...

Getting angry, and then resenting someone who doesn't treat you with the respect you expect, is like using a sledgehammer to swat a fly that has dared to land on your forehead!...

In order to have a sunny life on a moment-to-moment basis, you must be willing to let something new happen to you. No one sincerely asks for a new life until they are thoroughly dissatisfied with the old one. Letting go of the old ideas is the only way to really invite something new. This is what we are learning to do with the help of these higher ideas. Let's look at one example of how our...

Hatred of anyone -- for any reason -- sets the mind and heart on fire, makes the blood boil, and causes the eyes to see red. In short, in case you don't recognize the signposts for the place they describe, be warned: hatred is hell.

Wanting to punish others for the pain they "make" us feel is like tripping over our shoelaces and then jumping on our own toe to let the offending shoe know how displeased we are with it!...

The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.

I listened to one of your talks about Anger Management (the one where you talk about how people who annoy you strike a chord in you). I just want to understand this more. I think this understanding will really help me. Imagine a piano sitting with the strings exposed. As it sits there, in a living room, three people walk into that room at different times, all doing different things. Someone d...

Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what cannot be than dare to explore what is possible.

At least twice a month I receive an email or letter telling me how much anger and hatred the person is feeling towards someone who betrayed them in some way...and asking how on earth can it be possible to live without this recurring resentment and its searing pain. It's hard to put these personal kinds of trials into proper perspective because we are dealing with the operations of two worlds...