Brooding, resenting, regretting...all are forms of unconscious suffering, and serve to strengthen the false notion that the negative state is a product of the condition, instead of a reflection of one's consciousness. To suffer consciously is to act in a whole new way where one chooses to be consciously passive to states that are (actively) blaming or judging; instead of being the instrument...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of March 28, 2016. Part 1: It is virtually impossible to consciously bear the unpleasant manifestation of any other human being until we have awakened to the same manifestation in ourselves, and learned to consciously suffer it. In other words, we can only bear in someone else what we have learned to bear in ourselves... which means none can be truly com...

Topics covered: Nature's creatures serve the nature that has created them; Man is created for the purpose of seeing himself; Attending to the whole of the moment both interiorly and exteriorly; Self-observation is the most rudimentary thing for a person to do and should come naturally; How can you be moved to act against yourself and not know it; There is no static state for the human being; I...

As a rule, talking to ourselves about an event that just happened to us is either the avoidance of actually seeing what took place, or the first step in forming an attachment to its outcome. And these are often one and the same action.

The only thing the excuses we make for ourselves actually do is to increase our dependency on them.

The only thing the excuses we make for ourselves actually do is to increase our dependency on them.

The sorrow and conflict we see everywhere in the world can never come to an end until we see that its cause lives on in us as an unchecked desire to avoid dealing with the sorrow we breed.

Part 1 It is a distinct stage in the development of the aspirant when -- rather than being easily distracted by some imagined consolation for his pain, or by concluding who is to blame for it -- his first and real preference in the moment is to increase his consciousness of his condition, and not to find ways around it. Part 2 Every flood begins with a single raindrop -- that becom...

Getting negative over how others treat you is the same as mistreating yourself! Stop wasting your life. Wake up and be wise. See dark thoughts and feelings as the lie that they are. Then, instead of suffering their cruel presence within you as proof that someone did you wrong, you'll see these negative states themselves as being the sole cause of your suffering.

Topics covered: Sensation, emotion, and intellect try to pass themselves off as love, but are not; We've lost the ability to feel life; You find your way on the inner path through experience; There is no burden that someone else is carrying around that isn't ours, too; Only the heart is in relationship with real life; The last thing I want to see is the burden of being me; Learning to ask, 'Wh...

In this short talk, Guy explains that nothing outside of yourself is punishing you. What is punishing you is your own resistance to what it feels like when people are rude, crude, or unkind. You want to blame others for the pain that you are in. See the resistance. Be aware of the pain of resisting. Be aware of the pain of blaming. The more you can be aware of that pain, the more unwilling you will be to lend yourself over to the demand that others...

What we live for, We give to. What we give to, We grow in. What we grow in, We become. What we are becoming Is our life, However we may name it. Only through a change In what we live for Is there a Life beyond becoming.