Topics covered: Part of the purpose of a true school is to continually bring in front of your mind that which it does not want to encounter; We are convinced that we have to do something in order to free ourselves from negative states. The temptation to do something is suggested by the level of the negative state; Nothing can be healed in you until it is revealed in you; Something in us does not want a wrong relationship to change out of fear that...

Topics covered: I'm in a relationship where I'm selling myself, but I don't want to be alone; Why were we given bodies as an instrument for connecting to higher consciousness; The Truth feels like a reprimand; I am finding that everyone needs to find truth for themselves; What must I do to escape the monotony of patterns in my life; Is coming awake to the effects of nature's patterns on me act...

Topics covered: Every question we ask about how to approach the Divine creates a distance between us and the very thing that we seek; Trying to be like anyone else never produces a change in the consciousness that is seeking to be something; No description of any principle is the same as the principle being described; The power of any principle does not exist apart from the relationship that the principle is a part of...

Topics covered: How patterns in relationships are developed; When the student is ready, the teacher appears; My sense of self in any moment is the product of what I'm attending to; The purpose of relationship is revelation; Love favors those who favor love; Understanding the 'Hulk' nature within us; Exercise: 'I am not this weakness'; The ABC's of Relationship Magic: Anger, Blame, and Coercion...

Relationships serve as a platform for revelation; It is through meeting limitation that we grow; As things break up, we can use them to wake up or we can let them pull us down; Dependency breeds fear, fear breeds resentment, resentment breaks up relationships; The only thing that troubles me about another person is what I want from them; Every relationship is literally a mirror; We are meant t...

Topics covered: Discussion of Guy's online workshop on 'Relationship Magic'; Entering into relationships with a belief that the other person is responsible for our happiness; Luster fades in the face of pain and then things fall apart; The proper use of dissatisfaction; Everyone is a mirror for us; Unconscious demands we place on others; Learning to use the differences between us for liberatio...

Topics covered: Relationships are a spiritual gold mine; Impressions we receive that uncover our feelings; Awakening to a larger consciousness; Being moved by another person; Attachments that become dependencies; Relationships as equal opportunity mirrors; False teachers; Knowing an authentic love; The only thing that bothers us about others is what we want from them; Coming into a moment with...

What makes you a unique human being is found in your relationship with life -- and not in the degree to which you struggle to get others to perceive you as being unique.

As we're about to discover, the little phrase, "I see myself," describes a single action that has the power to change the heart of whoever is willing to embrace its practice. But, before we examine the exercise, let's take a closer look at what it means to "see ourselves" -- as we are -- especially when someone else has failed to please us.

One of the most shocking and necessary discoveries along the path is that what we love does not love us. We are filled all the time with powerful feelings and emotions that seem to lift or otherwise provide purpose and self-worth. It is not too much to say that most of these inner states are lies -- hopelessly incomplete of themselves, and seeking completion in some secret opposite that they g...

No relationship in life can be any more successful than what we are willing to learn about ourselves through it. The moment we turn our back on what others give us to see about ourselves, we not only walk away from what we need to see, but also from the better person we could be...were we only willing to learn the lesson at hand.

Topics Covered: The only thing that troubles us about another person is what we want from them; If you don't take responsibility for what you think and do, then you won't learn the lesson; Our true nature is a living relationship with spirit; No one who hurts us knows what they are doing to themselves; Identification is bondage; See that the pain is intrinsic in your own consciousness...