Topics covered: We are always in the grip of something that asks to be fulfilled through what's known; Over time a school becomes the expression of the individuals in it; Only what is real can reveal what is real; Spirit uses shocks to prune the self; Imagination is sleep; Any moment I am present to myself and waiting, I am making a request; It is what you are in any given moment that speaks,...

Topics covered: You receive exactly what you are moment to moment; If I'm not present to myself, I am not; To recapture your attention is to refresh yourself; What you think of as (psychological) pain is not really pain, it's a mind that doesn't know what to do with itself; Patience is born in a human being in exact proportion to seeing how impatience hurts himself and others; Humans are the f...

For anyone with ears to hear, there is but one question and one answer: will we wait patiently for a single moment of relationship with what is eternal and real...

In this Saturday discussion Guy explains how we are invited, moment-to-moment, to enter into a whole new world beyond the limited world of thought. The thought-self enjoys and depends on the illusion of the pleasures it imagines for itself. When we run into reality...

Topics Covered: Who we really are belongs to a greater story than anything the mind can imagine; The mind only knows thought, and thought is the past; The pain in our lives is because we are cut off. We are isolated with no understanding that our present consciousness only knows one thing to do with unwanted moments, which is to resist them; We live in a world where negative...

Many of the letters and calls I receive from students revolve around a certain theme that I thought I'd take a moment to discuss here. For simplicity's sake, I will paraphrase this somewhat concern/question, which goes something like this: As I work on my self, grow through and into new understanding about my present nature, I seem to run into problems with former friends and family members...

We already have all the pain that we need to change, but none of it is conscious. Until it becomes conscious, it is impossible to change. We live in illusion, perpetuate the pain, and even add more to it whenever we avoid seeing our actual condition in the present moment.

Classroom Talk: 2/18/2024 - The present moment and our awareness of whatever may be passing into and through it are one consciousness, much in the same way as the Eye of The Beholder shares an awareness of both the mirror, and the object it reflects.

The key to the kingdom of heaven is never farther away from us than what each present moment reveals to us; for in truth "purity of heart" is inseparable from our willingness to see that things are the way they are because of the way we are.

The Wise have always taught: As goes our attention, so comes our experience. The more we attend to living in the present moment, the richer becomes our experience of it... and of our own higher possibilities.

All of our imagined hopes and plans for the promising pleasures of "tomorrow" are crafted by the parts of us determined to keep us from seeing what we're being given to see about ourselves in each and every present moment.

Topics covered: The only time you're in trouble is when you aren't present to yourself; You don't know how dangerous it is to be living your life while psychologically asleep; The way you feel moment to moment is a direct result of what you value; Spirituality is a completely different sense of yourself that isn't connected to your past or future; Your life is new all the time; You have no gre...