Topics Covered: Spiritual attention is the beginning of humility; Nothing can happen in your spiritual work until you have your own attention; Our minds are always thinking things through; Conditions don't produce pain, they reveal the pained nature; Human beings are in a ceaseless spell; Humility is release from yourself; Awareness of your existence; There is no moment in which the observer i...

Student Talks: 6/5/2020 - Key Lesson: Whenever we set out seeking any kind of power, be it social, financial, and including spiritual, we are under the power of that which has no power; and where, regardless of what it may seem we've obtained, we have become increasingly powerless.

Classroom Talk: 3/22/2020 - A brief, but important glimpse into the truth behind the idea of "spiritual" poverty: only from nothing can God make us into something new.

An aspirant embarks upon the spiritual journey because of a feeling that draws them to it - but that feeling that provided the original impetus does not stay with you. At this point, when it feels like you have met a dead end in your inner work, you come to understand you must learn to rely on something else altogether.

Spiritual knowledge by itself is not enough. If we want to be truly successful human beings, then we are going to have to find some way to connect our spiritual lessons with every moment of our daily lives. We want the events that transpire around us to touch the whole of something that we were already working on within ourselves prior to meeting the event. It is only when we start taking our...

Topic: 7 Signs of Being Spiritually Asleep (8/5/20 Classroom Talk)

In this short video, Guy explains that trying to be a spiritual person through any idea about what it means to be awakened will lead to discouragement. Stop trying to be awakened. Instead, start seeing where you are asleep. This is not about living up to an imagined state. It is about dying to the illusion that you are what you imagine yourself to be.

Classroom Talk: 11/18/2020 - Identifying with resistance to any moment the mind points to as a painful problem of some kind... is the only real problem there is in that moment. To see the fact of this -- which is the purpose of all true spiritual teachings -- is the end of looking for any kind of power to protect, or otherwise restore some paradise...

Classroom Talk: 3/16/2005 - A great spiritual paradox: the knowledge we gain of any weakness that lives within us strengthens self-understanding. To know the truth of this is to welcome those shocks in life by whose light we become more and more wise.

Classroom Talk: 12/9/2020 - Never forget the truth that follows, and freedom is nearer than you think: no real spiritual effort is ever in vain, even when we're given to see -- as result of our inner work -- some low estate into which we've temporarily fallen. In turn, always remember: the great ocean into which the waters of a river...

You can't study spirit directly, but you can learn to see what's divine and celestial in the world around you. In studying a fire you come to understand what's required in order for the wood to become enflamed. Similarly, in your spiritual life, if you wish for the holy spirit to come into you and transform you, you must do your part, by bringing yourself to the place where revelation can take...

The purpose of any true interior practice is not to help us do or achieve something in the world that will make our future a brighter one, but to help us see something now about our present level of being.