Part 1 The only reason your mind won't stop its endless chattering... is because you won't stop listening to it! Part 2 Talking to ourselves to comfort ourselves makes sense only until we realize that talking to what troubles us, in the hopes of quieting it down, is like blowing kisses to a fire hoping that a show of affection will cool its flame.

In this Saturday discussion Guy encourages us to see that as human beings we represent a unique possibility in the field of all possibilities. But as we live presently, from the divided mind, it is impossible to know that "this" and "that" are one thing...

We're all familiar with the general idea that in a moment of crisis a person ought to be able to remember what is right and true. We want to remember that there is an ideal aspect of our character within us that the circumstance we find ourselves going through has seemingly made disappear. We have all struggled the best that we know how to be the embodiment of that ideal, and there are definit...

Whenever we will lend our attention to the inner task of working to transcend some dark state at work within us, then in that same moment, even if we don't see the immediate fruits of our effort, we will have already begun to release ourselves from its restrictions. For our effort to be conscious of our condition instead of remaining its captive, fresh energies flood over and through us, lifti...

What we must learn to ask ourselves, not once or twice daily, but a hundred times and every time it strikes us to remember ourselves, is this question: Where is my attention right now, and what is my experience of the moment as a result of its placement? If we ever hope to taste some measure of true spiritual freedom, then we must work to awaken ourselves to this relationship that seems to be...

Topics covered:  Until your attention is free, you are a captive of every condition that your attention falls on. To free your own attention means to possess your own attention; "You never enjoy the world aright till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars, and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you." -- Thomas Traherne (1637 – 1674)

Whether we spiritually ascend -- or descend -- all depends upon what we intend in each and every moment of our lives.

Topics covered: Discussion of the 'seer and seen' exercise practiced during lunch; Self-remembrance begins with collecting all your faculties; The emergence of new understanding forms the ground of further understanding; The difference between affirmation and negation; Losing interest in yourself is a full-time job; The more you have faith in what you are shown, the more you will have faith in...

Whether we spiritually ascend -- or descend -- all depends upon what we intend in each and every moment of our lives.

The longing to be present–to live in Presence–is the path. The "steps" are made up of all the discoveries one must make as to what prevents one from being properly attentive to the now, that unknowable world whose actions are the reflection of the holy.

For every impulse, each movement in the expanding heavens, there is a gravity equal to it; for each light, each bit of love, there is a darkness, a resentment or regret. Our place, if we accept it, is to always be present to the possibility of empowering what is light and bright...

Even if your best efforts -- the work to be awake, and attentive to your inner life -- feels as if it's failed to produce any real result... nevertheless, persist...