Classroom Talk: 5/22/2022 - Part 1: That we should search only our own conscience for confirmation of what is good and true, this is the best definition of integrity. For that which is good and true is not social in nature, but spiritual in need and in deed. Part 2: Here is an enigma wrapped in a paradox: we cannot buy the love of the Divine; no good deed can produce the...

Topics covered: Discussion of Guy's new book on Relationship Magic; All the most valuable lessons we have in life come out of our relationships; The observer of the moment is not apart from what is observed; We love to be stirred by love, but reject anything that stirs us negatively; We bring unseen expectations and demands into our relationships; What do you mean by ""magic""; How do we set our...

Classroom Talk: 7/17/2024 - There is no Love in thought; no wisdom in knowledge. There is no kindness, let alone compassion in any image; were Michelangelo himself to have painted the likeness of the most tantalizing loaf of bread ever imagined... still, it could do nothing to ease the pain of hunger.

Part I: The endless emotional sensations that enter into -- and that temporarily possess the heart -- are not the Truth of the heart any more than the sun's baking heat, or a winter's freezing sleet, are the same as the sky they fill as they pass their way through it. Part II: It must be that our earthen heart holds within it some bit of heavenly soil, for what other explanation is there for...

Student Talks: 5/27/2022 - Key Lesson: Part 1 – That we should search only our own conscience for confirmation of what is good and true, this is the best definition of integrity. For that which is good and true is not social in nature, but spiritual in need and in deed. Part 2: Here is an enigma wrapped in a paradox: we cannot buy the love of the Divine; no good deed can produce the Presence...

Topics covered: Be the observer, the conscious witness of what love is inviting you to see about yourself; There is a pain in me that I didn’t know was there; Learning to pick up the spiritual tab by living with your own pain; When you don't return unkindness with unkindness, old patterns collapse on the spot; Learning the lessons we’re meant to learn...

Topics covered: Letting go is an inside job; No one can "set you off" unless you have unseen expectations; We are already guarded when we meet people; Blaming others is a sign of a broken heart; When it comes to love and relationships, we are and always will be in training; Before any part of our heart can be healed, it must be revealed as broken; Giving your partner room to change...

Topics covered: Real love isn't selfish; Our minds are undeveloped; We start every moment from an assumption of strength; Everything you can see going on within you is beneath the self that can see; Who and what you really are is out of the ordinary, but we live from an ordinary self; You're so anxious because you're always trying to prove yourself; Nothing in you needs to be protected....

Part 1: What is that first, faint intuition of something Greater than ourselves, other than the Herald of the Heart quietly announcing the existence of a whole new level of being above us -- and asking us -- at the same time, if we will prepare ourselves to receive it. Part 2: Just as tumbling leaves in the wind makes the wind visible, so does the need of someone -- that stirs the h...