Our inner work to be present - including the attention needed to do so - is to make possible this revelation: the negative experience of any unwanted moment is inseparable from the nature of the seer; in this awakening is born the willingness we need to surrender ourselves, that we may be "reborn."

The following are examples of ways in which one might use the "Be Thou" prayer following one's work with any of the exercises in double attention. Each of the following eight simple prayers is to be felt by the whole of you, one by one, as you address their corresponding parts in the order shown here. As you become aware of...

The cause of confusion and unhappiness lies in all the self-centered, touchy parts of us that insist, one after the other, that the world conform to their demands.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of August 27, 2018. Spiritual attention is the beginning of humility. Humility is the seed of devotion. Devotion is obedience to the Divine. (Divine) obedience is the origin of freedom.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 27, 2015. The dawning awareness of how much you need the Divine in your life - to help open your heart, and to heal your mind -- is the same as 'how' to ask for... and receive this Grace; and the more real grows your spiritual need, the sooner comes a Celestial response.

Guy explains the proper use of social media as a tool for supporting your wish to attend to something more constant, more kind, and more whole in your days, as well as to rightly encourage others with what you are learning.

When your mind holds a picture of how your life should be, a sense of self is created that can never be at peace, and desperation replaces natural aspiration. Instead of looking for consolation in things outside of you, learn what it means to see your life through the eyes of the Divine. You'll find that something within you already knows what is real from what is false.

Topics covered: Attention...

In this life we are only given two things that are purely our own to use: attention and time. Sadly, most of us squander our gifts of time and attention. Rather than learning to be in command of our attention, which is the same as using our time for its highest purpose -- the realization of our immortal Self -- we hand it over to almost anything that floats by in the river of time. Either we...

The only thing that really troubles us is that our attention doesn't belong to us. Presently, something calls for us and claims our attention. Every errant thought and feeling that passes through our psychic system commands that we attend to what it tells us to, and then tries to direct us to what we have to discover based on resistance to the moment produced by our misplaced attention...

Part 1 Since we reap from life only that which we've sown, what else forms the rut of our lives but the treading of the known. Part 2 The unsuspected and latent quality of any mind attentive to itself is the unthinkable linkage hidden between attention and awakened intuition.

Winning liberation from any painful dark inner state begins with working to withdraw your attention away from its purpose while remembering your own intention to be free.