Catch those moments when a switch is thrown inside you and you start running a race or want to straighten somebody out because they are bothering you. Come to a stop and see that you are trying to get something or become something to escape what you are that moment. When you become aware of the cage you are in, the way out is by remaining aware of it and agreeing to die to the part of you that...

The only way it's possible to be punished by some mistaken action on our part... is if we make the second mistake: allowing the same level of self that we followed into that 'pit' to condemn and then punish us for the very misstep that it first assured us was the right one to take!...

Topics covered: Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me; Harmony is balance, and peace is the outcome; Life is disturbance; The mind seeks something to be for or against; We must have the capability necessary to be at peace; The task is to understand our relationship to a greater life; Peace lies in the whole of something, not in the part; 'Doing' is downstream from 'being'; Each...

No true action ever has to justify itself, which means that even if you can whip up a hundred good reasons for treating someone badly, it still does nothing to change the simple fact that... you've acted wrongly.

How else can the Divine reveal where we have deceived ourselves about its Incorruptible Nature and our relationship with it other than by showing us -- in some unmistakable fashion -- the parts of ourselves that imagine themselves as full of Light when -- in truth -- they are but fleeting shadows seeking a moment's glory before the sun rises to reveal them as such.

The fear of -- and unconscious resistance to seeing the depth and breadth of one's own weakness -- is not the same as realizing one's actual state of (spiritual) helplessness in that same moment.

The Wise have always taught: As goes our attention, so comes our experience. The more we attend to living in the present moment, the richer becomes our experience of it... and of our own higher possibilities.

In this short talk Guy exposes the world of the dreamer. He explains that as consciousness becomes aware of itself it also becomes aware of the conversations. The difference between now and a dream is that an ""I"" is here having the thoughts but in a dream the thoughts are having themselves. In order to live a whole life we must learn to be in this body and simultaneously aware of the dream.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of February 6, 2017. Stop complaining. Start changing. The appearance of every moment comes with an unseen pair of "buttons:" one says "down." The other says "up," which means that the direction that your life goes in is your choice. Choose wisely!...

Topics covered:  We are always trying to recapture a peace that we think we have lost. But the whole idea of restoring a peace that you have lost is an illusion; The mind that believes it has lost its peace imagines a peaceful time to come, which it never reaches; The negative reaction that other people bring up in you is YOUR limitation, not the limitation of the other person.

 

The one great exercise of prayer is... To come wide awake and to place the center of myself into the center of my will and... Having done so, take this gathering of attention and surrender it wholly to my God...

When you focus on feelings of loneliness, you become identified with the part of you that is producing the very condition you don't want. The more you talk to yourself about why you are alone and why people don't like you, the more you emanate an energy that actually creates distance between you and other people. The only way this comes to an end is when you start to understand that you are yo...