Seeking power, it weakens itself. Seeking fulfillment, it empties itself. Seeking control, it abandons itself. Seeking security, it frightens itself. Seeking relationship, it betrays itself...

To consider this lesson more deeply, here is a telling story about how dark states find their way into us and then look for someone else to justify their existence: One day, a little angel who wanted to be a big angel was spending some time with a more seasoned angel. They were invisibly walking down a busy city street, and the older angel said to the apprentice angel: "Would you like to hear...

The relationship between voluntary suffering, and the good spiritual fortune that any conscious labor will produce... is similar to how the hard work it takes to cultivate a field increases the likelihood of a healthy bumper crop.

The unseen seed of every success -- of every great work of art, and every light that has ever helped illuminate the human journey -- began with someone being open to a new possibility in life and saying "Yes" to it... regardless of personal cost.

No one can return to, let alone realize their right to a conscious relationship with the Divine indwelling Self, without first agreeing to pay the cost of consciously, completely releasing themselves from all that they have mistaken themselves to be.

No one escapes a painful pattern who doesn't see it as being one; this means our freedom begins only as we work to realize and then release our relationship with whatever is seen to be holding us captive.

Topics Covered: You can't separate an imagined fear from the self that believes what it has imagined; "I was born when all I once feared, I loved"; Attention establishes relationship through becoming conscious of an existing link; Resistance is the first form of all complaint; There's no such thing as a time to come when everything comes up roses; The "no frame" moment; All I see is what I don...

Topics covered: Topics covered: Guy's workshop on 'Relationship Magic'; Relationships are the single greatest resource for changing the kind of human being we are; Resisting relationships versus using them for revelation; Missing the purpose of a moment of conflict; The collective victim consciousness; Life exists to perfect itself; Living from beliefs that are punishing; Resisting negativity...

Useless resistance feeds useless suffering, even as useless suffering feeds useless resistance; but it is we who -- in our ignorance of this unseen relationship -- are consumed in the endless service of an unconscious nature that cares for nothing other than its own continuity...

Classroom Talk: 7/27/2003 - Learning to prefer the taste of Silent Wholeness over the taste of food, even while we are taking our meal, is but one of the gifts of God's daily bread: A trans-substantial matter that not only nourishes body and soul, but that always leaves us feeling lighter regardless of how much grace is taken in.

The judgment of anyone or anything is never a conclusion to the conflicted condition in question, far from it: all forms of judging someone, or something amount to an unseen continuation of the relationship being judged.

Part 1 There is an unseen, unheard constant communication, a communion that exists between -- and within -- all things created, throughout all of the cosmos. Part 2 The reason that (spiritual) fulfillment favors those who persist (in its pursuit) is because nothing comes into creation that isn't the offspring of a relationship responsible for its birth. This means that the more co...