Classroom Talk: 10/14/2020 - Just as nature practices perfecting herself through the myriad creatures she creates to reflect her limitless possibilities in passing time, so the Divine manifests Its Spirit through each soul It creates who may, in turn, (awaken to) realize their role in the revelation of Its eternal perfection.

In this special short talk Guy gives an additional iteration to the attention exercises to help us build a living intention to be present in order to have the attention that is needed to have a different relationship with life.

Classroom Talk: 4/3/2022 - Practicing the Presence -- working to remember the truth of yourself -- doesn't necessarily change the kind of events that come to you; that's not how it works. But, what your inner work does change is for whom -- upon what 'I' -- will these events fall and, accordingly, the purpose they serve.

There are two basic kinds of prayer. The first kind of prayer -- the one most commonly understood and practiced -- is when you are asking for what you want; when you are temporarily filled with -- and renewed by -- both the self making that request and the anticipation of what is requested. This is the only kind of prayer that most men and women ever know; when someone asks from himself for...

Classroom Talk: 5/12/2002 - Part 1: Perfection is not an idealized final form but a living relationship being unfolded in the Light. Part 2: Only the practice of Perfection can perfect us because It's work brings us into humility and leads us into a willingness to let go of ourselves for the love of a Greater Cause.

 

Part I: Seen properly, what is any dark mental or emotional habit -- such as regretting our life, cultivating resentments, or fearfully trying to protect ourselves from what "may be" -- other than the unconscious practice of perfecting what punishes us? Part II: Resisting any negative state merely helps it realize its full potential to make you its prisoner!...

One of the most difficult aspects of true inner work is the gradual, but necessary, discovery of just how divided one is within him- or herself. It sounds good to be an inner-adventurer, to "boldly go where no one has gone before"...but in practice, it's another whole story. Our present sense of self is based, almost entirely, on a flimsy interior network of associated thoughts and feelings,...

Student Talks: 4/8/2022 - Key Lesson: Practicing the Presence -- working to remember the truth of yourself -- doesn't necessarily change the kind of events that come to you; that's not how it works. But, what your inner work does change is for whom -- upon what 'I' -- will these events fall and, accordingly, the purpose they serve.

Topics Covered: What is the difference between little "I's" and the whole of the divine; I've battled with anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder since my late teens and don't know how to practice the higher ideas I learn; How do I help a young student in my classroom who is rude and hateful; Is conscience a conduit of truth.

Student Talks: 5/17/2019 - Key Lesson: In a world of unconscious beings -- steeped in an ever-increasing immorality -- self love is worshipped as Godliness; where, for the sleeping masses, hypocrisy -- practiced to perfection -- passes for goodness. It has always been this way, so that anyone who comes to shed light on the...

It's imperative to meet each moment of your life with this realization: it's only what you do right now that is the seed of change.

Classroom Talk: 4/17/2022 - There is a very strange feature as concerns most human beings: we would rather feel anxious thinking about unwanted moments over which we have no power, than to practice placing our attention in the fact of that moment... where no thought is needed to build a bridge between ourselves, and a timeless peace whose Presence all of us seek.