It is impossible to hold an enemy in our heart and know, at the same time, the Love that lends the heart its wholeness -- its capacity to consider the suffering of others, without which there is no compassion.

Exercise: Who do you love? When you feel a disturbance internally, realize that the tension you feel is actually because of a disparity between heaven and earth in you. See the false love of fear, worry, etc. that has been stirred and activated within you, and exchange it for a higher love.

Guy explains why an aspirant should do everything he or she can to be as present to their discontentment as possible.

In this short talk Guy speaks of the journey in God's life and the love that is necessary to know for oneself that peace exists.

Since you would never agree to let anyone deliberately belittle you -- or to otherwise "label you" in some disparaging way... Then why (do you) accept the presence of some negative character at large within you that can't wait -- at the drop of a hat -- to pin any kind of painful, or shameful name on you.

Until we can see that we care more for what "will be" -- even "what was" -- than we do for being in relationship with "what is" -- our heart and mind are the possessions of passing time, which means that so is the false sense of self that appears out of it... only to disappear back into it time and time again.

As long as the conduct of others dictates how you act towards them, then it's their nature that decides the role you play on the stage of life; in moments such as these, though roundly rejected as true, all that you could be is reduced... to that of being a bit character, an unwitting actor in a play not your own.

Here is the great pre-requisite to realizing the Higher Life and Love for which you long: You must uncover why you consistently allow one thing -- i.e., one unwanted event, one disparaging comment, any old regret or familiar fear to become your all... instead of meeting these passing moments with the understanding that the All is meant to be your one thing.

It often happens that in our struggle to learn and subdue the nature of our pain that our struggle itself becomes the pain that we are in. Now there is an ache upon an ache, and the darkness doubled... which is why the stepping stones of the true spiritual path are not made up of powers, but of new and higher self perceptions.

Any pleasure that a person takes from this life that does not simultaneously include a conscious sense of gratitude for that pleasure being received is always an incomplete pleasure. Incomplete pleasures and insatiable desires are the opposing yet complementary two wings of the thorn birds that, one moment lift the soul above the earth, and the next, drop it to dash it against the ground.

Classroom Talk: 01/25/2026 - The end of suffering is not found in the pursuit of freedom from suffering, but in seeing through the very nature of desire that generates the suffering to begin with. The problem is not what we desire, but rather our unseen identification with desire itself, and the endless cycle of conflict it creates.

Classroom Talk: 01/11/2026 - Given time, whatever degree of dependency we help to create in others will eventually prove itself a prison of our own making…For there is no form of psychological dependency that doesn't make a captive of whoever may be involved in that relationship…including the one w ho unknowingly initiated it.