Half measures are usually full of regrets.

Topic: Leave the Tender Moment Alone as the Path of True Transformation (Remastered Classic Talk) (Classroom Talk 9/17/25)

In this short talk Guy explains what it means to be a productive human being.

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

Topics covered: Discussion of the lunch exercise to wait three seconds before talking; Exercises are not given or practiced to achieve a result, they are intended to allow you to see what is within your power and what is not; The patterns you have are the tracks of a self within you; The character creates the pattern, not vice versa; Put your attention on the pattern maker; Real change doesn't...

Any thought telling you "it can't be done" is only as convincing as you're willing to be held captive by its lie. Getting started -- with whatever it may be -- is as simple as remembering that there's nothing in the universe that can stop you from taking the first step.

There may be no greater self-deception than the false notion that rushing through anything actually helps us in any way whatsoever. After all, if anxious thoughts and feelings had any power to deliver us to a place or time where peace awaits, don't you think we'd have gotten there by now? Let there be no mistake here: *When it comes to being in a hurry, what difference does it make how fast y...

The more people complain about their unwanted circumstances in life, the less likely they are to do anything to change them!...

Nature reclaims whatever we abandon; this axiom holds as true with an abandoned building as it does with one's soul.

The best time -- in fact, the only time -- to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started!

Since what troubles us, troubles us now -- then now is when we must awaken to and address within ourselves whatever it is that makes us ache. To delay this interior work is to lose sight of the doorway that our own disturbed state opens for us and beckons us to enter.

It is the very nature of thought to postpone life, and thereby put off entrance into the heaven it seeks.