Any time you sit, think about, and "stew" over what someone did to you, or simmer in anger about some past event, the real reason for your pain is because you're cooking your own goose!...

Listening to your own mind give you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it's funny to find new ways to hurt you!...

If anxious thoughts and feelings had any power to help us reach some place in life where, finally, we would be released from the pain of always feeling rushed then . . . don't you think we'd have reached there by now!...

Topics covered: Is there evil in this world; I can't seem to "learn the lesson"; Balancing my practical and spiritual lives; What is Guy's process for sharing these ideas; Why is daily life so difficult; Is there a link between chronic diseases and holding on to unresolved negative emotions; Are all "voices" from a lower self; Can you know if your soul is dead; Why do I get so emotional when I...

iving within us dwells an order of being that knows, without thinking about it, what is authentically good for us and others.

In the end, there's only one place that anxious thoughts for "tomorrow" can lead you to... and that is deeper into the trap of believing that it's possible to think your way into being a complete human being.

We must persist in finding out that we don't know what we think we do... until the presence of any "knower" within us is seen as being one and the same as the cause of all our useless suffering.

Negative thoughts do not belong to you; they are the trash of disappointed gods who -- being powerless to create a sustainable universe in their own image -- can think of nothing better to do than to hate their own imaginings.

Topics covered: If you were present in your life, you would never have questions about it; Is there any value in revisiting failed past relationships; Relationship Magic also applies to your relationship with thoughts and feelings about the past; The past doesn't repeat itself, it's you that repeats; When thought examines thought, nothing changes; Are fantasies okay; Feeling stuck caring for s...

The sooner we see the secret relationship between how certain we are over what we think we know, and the extent of our suffering over the same, the sooner we will find that elusive freedom that comes only with freedom from the known.

Isn't it true that we are trying to get to the place where there is no more "I"? Yet, even thinking in terms of eliminating the "I" is still "I" thinking! If the Christ state is already in us, then there is no progression to that state -- merely waking up, or coming to. If that is true, then when a person wakes up, is the "I" gone? (From student correspondence)...

I was thinking this afternoon about the man who introduced you to me. What would I say to him now, if we could meet? Did he have any idea what he was doing? Had he given any thought to what was going to happen to me? How the rest of my life, every facet of it, would be shaped by that moment our paths then crossed? Did he understand I would lose everything I treasure because the only constant...