There is no real solution to those "trials & tribulations" we're always trying to change, or somehow escape in life... other than to realize an Innermost Place (already within us) that shows us -- by it's Light -- two great truths whose singular wisdom sets us free at once: there would be no need to seek a solution to our pain if we hadn't unknowingly "fallen" into the wrong place (in ourselve...

Classroom Talk: 11/4/2018 - Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of November 12, 2018. As the chaff is gradually threshed from the wheat... It's not hard to imagine that the wheat may "feel" as if it is losing itself: as if all that it has been -- or known -- is being taken from it.

You cannot protect yourself from psychological pain or disappointment and hope to court the Divine at the same time. The narrow entrance into the heart of heaven is a movement; (it is) an unknowable accord found only where revelation and letting go converge and merge, and from their union give birth to a new order of being that is one with all that changes.

In this short talk Guy exposes a basic misunderstanding about the spiritual path. Everything about the spiritual life is supposed to be simple but we want to complicate it. This happens when we refuse to let go of our pain in any moment and instead unconsciously hold on...

In this short talk Guy continues the series of attention exercises to include a new step which further develops our attention while simultaneously helping us to let go of tension and stress.

"I want to be brave when it comes to cutting myself loose from self-destructive situations, but each time I even get close to letting go, I get really scared. And when I get scared, I seem to hold on to everything even tighter! Is there a way to get past this fear? I loathe the idea that I may be too frightened to find freedom." "Yes. There is a way past this part of yourself that would rathe...

As we wake up to those parts of us that would have us believe we can change our lives by following the directions of the very self that we no longer wish to be, then we are on our way to winning a New Life. The Real spiritual journey begins with letting go of who we have been instead of calling upon it to be our travel guide.

The Wisdom and the strength to let go is not the outcome of preparation; it is born within us – moment to moment – as our willingness to learn the truth about ourselves meets the need to do the same.

Classroom Talk: 1/1/2020 - Here is the real "secret" of starting over: No moment in this life of ours can be any newer than we are willing to be at the outset of its appearance.

The divided mind -- driven as it is by unconscious desires -- is very similar to a dog that has learned to throw its own stick. It cannot come to a rest until it has exhausted itself, and even then it can’t let go of what it feels compelled to chase...

In order to have a sunny life on a moment-to-moment basis, you must be willing to let something new happen to you. No one sincerely asks for a new life until they are thoroughly dissatisfied with the old one. Letting go of the old ideas is the only way to really invite something new. This is what we are learning to do with the help of these higher ideas. Let's look at one example of how our...

Trying to drop some pressurized thought or feeling that's painful to you, without having first let go of that stressed nature responsible for it, is like trying to get out of your socks before you take off your shoes.