What happens when we see things about ourselves that we don't want to see? In order to avoid looking at itself, the mind will seize on the anger, impatience, grief, loneliness, or anxiety it has seen... and it will try to explain it. It will take the initial darkness, the negative energy, and because it seems to be so bad, the mind will make something out of it that it can deal with...

50% of our fear in life is born out of suspecting just how impermanent everything is around us, and then trying to prove otherwise in spite of the facts; the other half of our fear appears when, despite all that we do, our suspicions prove true.

Topics covered: The mind is a passive instrument responding to stimulus; Your whole life you've been a "deal maker"; Life is always asking you to examine yourself; Philosophy is what the mind uses to deal with what is existential and what it can't understand; You only know how to look at yourself and life through thought; As long as there is something between you and life you are not alive; Th...

The only thing we "add" to life by our resistance to it is the weight of a self-induced suffering born of needless worry.

The only thing we "add" to life by our resistance to it is the weight of a self-induced suffering born of needless worry.

Living with fear of any kind is the negative consequence of having embraced the false belief that the foundation of a fearless life is something we must build for ourselves.

Allowing the rushed state of another person to push you into an anxious state of mind is like letting the horse you're about to ride convince you to wear the saddle!...

The real reason why nothing is ever gained by running away from our troubles is because the only thing really troubling us is our own fearful -- but mistaken -- belief that we need to run away from anything!...

In case you did not hear the news, a young man was trampled to death on "black Friday" at a Wal-Mart in New York by more than two thousand people who broke down the doors at 5:00 AM in a mad rush to secure the best holiday deals for themselves. When we hear about events like this, a person can't help but wonder, "What in the world happened?" The official excuse for what caused the mob to rush...

Stressful worry helps no one -- not those we are concerned about, and certainly not us. Such worry heals nothing; instead, it hurts all who mistake its dark embrace as a path to empowerment. The only thing worry serves is to strengthen the grip of our fearful expectations and, in so doing, holds us captive in a bad dream of our own making.

In nature, hurricanes occur when walls of thunderstorms are driven up the center, producing a vortex -- an "eye" -- where, while everything else is total turmoil in and around it, there is complete silence and stillness in the center.

In this Saturday discussion Guy explains how, presently, we suffer because we tell ourselves what the quality of the moment is. Instead, we are intended to face the moment purely, without ascribing our own quality to it...