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...

It's hard to believe that we have a nature that would rather destroy someone else -- punish them, resent them -- than see itself as it is. Most of us still don't believe it, but when things don't happen the way we want them to, what becomes of us? What do we express? You know the answer, don't you?

Until we can see our life... as a whole, we see all of its events only through a single, but constantly shifting "I" within us; these fragments of self take each experience as being the whole of our existence because each imagines -- for the duration of its temporary little life -- that it is the whole. Here, in this virtually unceasing state of unconscious identification, lies our sorrow, fr...

Part 1 Frantic, false emotions can't exist outside the company of the compulsive thoughts that are their life-long "partner-in-pain"... while higher emotion requires no thought at all to be real, to reveal its timeless intrinsic beauty. Part 2 Until we can see our life... as a whole, we know it only through a single, but constantly shifting "I" within us. This lower level of self...

Guy answers a viewer's question about giving up anger and self-judgment when a friend shuts you out. Discover ways to navigate relationships with understanding and compassion. We spend so much time measuring ourselves, hoping to come out ahead, yet measuring inherently contains the "short stick."

Part I: Detect and deliberately drop all fearful thoughts about what "may be" your future and you release yourself from a present torment whose unseen driving force is your consent to consider darkly imagined tomorrows. Part II: We should never measure ourselves according to our "possibilities" because all such estimations of self are always based in secretly embraced evaluation...

Would you please explain how it is that we form attachments that end up being painful to us? How can I work to give up my attachment to ideas that I know from my own experience don't work anymore?...

Classroom Talk: 1/28/2024 - Because we are literally defined by our desires, we are confined to an unseen house of pain that, in turn, has transformed our fertile planet into a prison filled with frustrated inmates... none of whom can figure out why they're unable to escape the consequences of their (own) choices.

All negative emotions, but especially anger, are the offspring of one dark state...a frustrated desire that would rather set fire to the object, person, or condition seen as being at fault, then turn around and see itself for what it is in reality: the unseen source of its own suffering.

Seeking fulfillment it empties itself. Seeking importance it compromises itself. This is the self that opposes itself.

Student Talks: 2/2/2024 - Key Lesson: Because we are literally defined by our desires, we are confined to an unseen house of pain that, in turn, has transformed our fertile planet into a prison filled with frustrated inmates... none of whom can figure out why they're unable to escape the consequences of their (own) choices.

Deliberately disconnecting yourself from whatever you think has you blocked leads to true self-liberation because you have never been trapped by anything outside of your own lack of understanding.