Student Talks: 07/10/2026 - The only way we will ever know that death is an invisible doorway into another level of being  – Higher or lower, depending – is if we do the interior work – here and now – of dying to an unconscious nature whose “will to live” – we’ve mistaken as being the same as our own.

Just as the wise captain of a sailboat knows that a dead calm often precedes a new set of winds to fill his sails, so can the aspirant who is patient in the face of a growing emptiness be assured that a whole new order of fullness is on its way.

There is only one path that leads to a relationship with what is holy, and therefore perfectly complete... And that is to see -- without flinching, and finally without regret -- that all of the (seemingly attractive) paths through this life always end right where they began: in a too-familiar, but terrible, sense of emptiness.

Beware of those who do nothing constructive with their precious few moments on this earth, for they seek to squander your allotted time with the same reckless abandon.

While experience may serve as the path to self-knowledge, still it remains the lesser half of the path to self knowing.

In this short talk Guy explains that if we want to understand the moments of both emptiness and fullness we must learn to wait and meet life where response touches reality. We must learn to wait through the storms, high points, nothingness, and all of the spectrums of Life...

Topics covered:  True teachings are not intended to console the listener. They are intended to produce new insights that change the consciousness of those who allow the truth to act in them; Before rebirth there must come a death. "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it." -- New Testament -- There is an order to things that cannot be twisted. True teachings talk about how things have become completely reversed.

Part 1 Never fear the loss of what will, and must disappear in this world of passing time. The work of remembering this timeless (but unwanted) truth is the same as connecting yourself to the love of an all-embracing, fearless awareness... that never dies. Part 2 When you see that the emptiness you fear is full of your resistance to its appearance -- and that some unseen part of you...

Rushing to reach a moment of some imagined pleasure is like setting yourself on fire in anticipation of the relief you'll feel when you jump into a pool of water!...

Classroom Talk: 8/12/2005 - We all long to be known: it is the unspoken hope of the heart that something Greater than ourselves already knows the undiscovered places in our soul, and only waits to show us all that we are. But, as yet, we know not even ourselves -- and true self-knowledge is the secret partner of this longing that accepts no other lover.

A single ounce of what is real can't be moved by a ton of what is not; only by learning to stand within yourself -- daring to be yourself -- will you ever discover that whatever it is within you that is always describing you, defining you -- telling you who you are -- does so for one reason only: to first tempt, and then to drag you into its world... where you are then ruled by whatever dream...

Topics covered: The awareness of what's missing in me IS what's missing in me; The wisdom of remorse is seeing your own compromised consciousness; Wisdom and action are inseparable; You must get to the point where you like being still; One day you will prefer being present over not; Personality can't stand being hungry; True feeling vs. false emotion; The work dips you into a kind of energy th...