In this excerpt from a previous study group meeting with Guy, he converses with an attendee about what's required of any serious aspirant in their spiritual journey. Join us live online this coming Monday, July 10 and Tuesday, July 11 as Guy again moderates our study group meetings on the topic of "The Lost Secrets of Starting Your Life Over."...

Topics covered: The hope of this world rests in innocence. No innocence, no goodness. No goodness, nothing good, and when there's nothing good there's only that which pretends to be good; It is inevitable that there will be suffering each time you try to hide from the truth of yourself; A real man or woman never blames anything or anyone else for his or her experience of life.

Topics covered:  One particularly pervasive lie in our culture is that we believe that we are only as valuable as other people see us as being; Until what is concealed in us is revealed, it can never be healed; "This above all: to thine ownself be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." -- William Shakespeare

Topics covered: We are dominated by reactions on a daily basis, but the real problem is that we do not know that we are dominated; Unconscious resistance is the life-blood of the false self. Resistance is what keeps the false self alive; Some sort of self-compromise comes out of being dominated by the conclusions of negative reactions; A condition cannot be resisted unless something is certain that it knows what it is...

Topics covered: As a rule, human beings know more about their iPhone than they know about the 'i' that is running their lives; It is never useful to judge another person. It is never useful to judge yourself; Nothing ever changes when you judge yourself. And judging yourself is not the same as seeing a true fact about yourself; The more that you judge yourself, the easier it becomes to judge yourself...

Topics Covered: What does a difficult moment have to do with giving my life away?; Bearing the unpleasant manifestations of others; Do you think you're the only one who suffers?; Most men live lives of quiet desperation; Love is greater than the life it gives; Not my will but Thy will be done; Seeing the good in difficult moments; There is no such thing as discouragement without...

Topics covered: Nothing can change in our experience of life until there is a change in the understanding of our experience; The purpose of every event is to help us change our understanding, so that we don't exit events as the same person that went into it; If we learned the lesson in the moment, then we wouldn't have to repeat the same moment over and over again in the same way.

Topics Covered: Pain names what it blames so that it can keep us in its prison; Fools believe, wise men and women explore; In my weakness is Thy strength made perfect; Staying in the moment for a heartbeat longer; Stop talking to yourself; Analyzing the pain is a part of the pain; You can't identify with thoughts and feelings, and learn about them at the same time...

Topics Covered: Our hope is not in things seen; Being the witness of useless suffering; Use the fear of the future to find the fearless heart; Accept the moment as it is given as an act of higher Will; We don't want to fix ourselves, we want to see ourselves; Dismissal of habitual reactions; Awareness of the play of creation; Replace the idea of "faster" with "more aware"...

I have decided to finally cut off an ex-boyfriend and his friends because they were pursuing a lifestyle I felt was unhealthy and wrong. I tried to use your way of viewing things around my ex, in an attempt to be his friend and perhaps help him, but he took offense to it, not wanting to deal with my view at all. I am heartbroken at so many people exiting my life at once. Was I too pushy with m...

Topics Covered: Desire is not the answer to the sense of being incomplete; Enter completely into the emptiness; What measures everything will never know what is immeasurable; Revelation of our consciousness is the beginning of not being afraid of it; The only thing that bothers us about anyone else is what we want from them; The first priority is to see something that...

We know there's a Wisdom beyond what thought can grasp, but that -- on the other hand -- is not beyond our awareness of that limitation; to even suspect this truth opens our eyes to the unthinkable possibility: we need not be limited to the choices, let alone the actions of that limited level of self.