The next time you run into some familiar blockage or begin to feel unsuited to face some new and difficult personal challenge, don't do what you've always done before. Don't try to think your way around it. You no longer want a way around your troubles because what goes around, comes around! What you want is to grow beyond the level of that disturbance. And to do that, you must not act from...

Classroom Talk: 11/27/2024 - I've been a pirate...looting the hearts of any I could board and pillage for my pleasure. I've been a priest...consoling, and confusing any I could deceive and profit from by my practiced piety. I've been anyone...that everyone wanted me to be: I've danced for a drink, and lied without hesitation to ensure others my word is good. The truth is I've been everyone...but myself.

Topics covered: Discussion of the law of seven and descending octaves; Relating Guy's talk on being in the wilderness to the Prodigal Son and John the Baptist; Feeling confused when my empathy towards others isn't reciprocated; What is a right action regarding feeling like there's no hope for the world; Struggling with what I'm seeing about the illusory self; How to deal with lifelong dysfunct...

In this short exchange with an online viewer, Guy explains that any avoidance of our inner condition actually solidifies both the condition being resisted and the confused sense of self that is created by that same unconscious resistance. There exists another order of awareness, a place of observation within us that is neither for nor against the condition that is revealed. What we need is simply the revelation of the condition and the consciousness responsible for it.

Topics covered: What is the distinction between presence and pursuit; I struggle to deal with a family member who has a disability; Should I go back on my word with people who I now feel are detrimental to my spiritual path; I often feel a physical reaction of tension when I come back to myself; I regularly wake up in the night and am flooded with negative thoughts; I'm confused about the diff...

The higher purpose of suffering is to ground us in the existence and Presence of an altogether higher level of (our own) Being...

Topics covered: What is true prayer; How does intercessory prayer fit in with this work; I'm confused about how to combine my spiritual and professional lives; My relationship with my friend has changed now that she's on psychiatric medications; How can I be sure my intentions are true and not just another 'want'; How can we best help others to achieve worldly excellence while not promoting th...

No revolution of the exterior kind, no movement dedicated to opposing the “powers that be,” has ever changed the consciousness that creates and sustains the system of those powers against which it pushes back...

The wish itself -- to be a higher person -- comes to you from a higher place and is received in its inner equivalent within you.

What is it about loving and being loved that makes it seem impossible to live without - and yet (at times) impossible to live with? I'm so confused! I'm thirty-two years old and have never even had a girlfriend. I am constantly reminding myself that I will never have a relationship, that it's just "not meant to be." Is this cynicism, or is life actually telling me that I will never find love?...

Have you ever wondered why you're so easily upset by the unexpected? It's not really you who feels shaky when situations shift without warning. It's who you think you are that feels threatened -- but you don't have to go on feeling afraid. Beginning right now, with some patient self-investigation and the aid of a few higher facts, you will discover that you are not who you think you are. T...

Do you remember the opening lyric to the classic song "Love and Marriage?" If not, allow me to refresh your memory: "Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage." Along with its memorable melody, this particular song has endured the test of time because hidden in the heart of its simple lyric is a celestial law about the power of attraction. If you recall, the rest of the lyric go...