Alchemy is a metaphor for a special kind of spiritual magic that can take place inside of a person as they learn its secrets. It's the true understanding that can transform what's dark and dense -- bad experiences, negative thoughts and feelings, difficult people -- into a form of higher consciousness (gold) that can illuminate your life.

It may seem like it's possible to make up for lost time, but it is not.

We cannot govern what we can't see, which is why the work to observe ourselves is the first step in learning to be self-ruling.

When we understand that self-knowledge is to our spiritual growth what a spring rain is to the wildflower seeds that await it, then we also realize how vital it is to not just embrace these higher laws but embrace them mind, body, and soul.

Regardless of how we want to believe otherwise, no-matter how subtle may be our justification for the same, we can't put the cares of this world first... and expect to be cared for by a Higher World at the same time. It's a faultless Law, and none can escape its perfect justice: whatever we put second in our life... places us second in its life as well.

There is a story in the New Testament in which Christ emphatically throws upside-down the tables of the money-changers in the temple. And yet Christ was (and is) the representation of a beneficent, compassionate, and loving intelligence -- love thine enemies -- judge not lest ye be judged. How does one reconcile Christ's edict of "love thine enemies" with the fact of the over-throwing of the m...

The reason it's so important to always go the "extra mile" in your inner work -- to do what you don't want to do, or feel like you can't do -- is that there is no other way for you to tap into a resource that only after you've expired all of your own.

The only thing that holds us down is what we don't yet know about ourselves. This insight explains why our ability to learn the truth about ourselves, to increase our level of self understanding, is the same as being empowered to raise our own life level. If we want to grow inwardly, free ourselves from the ties that bind, we must find new ways to learn the truth about ourselves. These higher...

In times of darkness and inner troubles, all known paths lead downhill.

There is only one requirement if our wish is to 'boldly go where no one has gone before....' And that is to realize that not only are we the explorer, but the new frontier is either found within us, or not at all.

Sacrifice is the law. Does not every creature, each bug, blade of grass, or gazelle -- taken in as food by the one who consumes it -- say, as it's being swallowed: "Here I am; take me. I give myself up to you, so that you may flourish"? All creatures speak thus in their life and death, none may say otherwise; it's nature; it's law. Even the sun sends down its light to be consumed and transfo...

In this short talk Guy explains how reclaiming our attention in the moment is an act of sacrifice that leads to true freedom.