Student Talks: 9/17/2021 - Key Lesson: Part 1: What power has any painful moment over us save for having become unconsciously identified with our own negative reaction to it. Seen properly, this means the event we blame for our suffering is like looking in a mirror... and blaming the reflection for whatever we don't want to see in it! Part 2: Our willingness -- and the inner work it takes...

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...

Classroom Talk: 02/22/2026 -I will be with you until the end of time, but if you look for me in (passing) time, you will not find me there.

Looking to any person, place, possession, or power to answer our longing to be whole and free . . . is like searching the back of our bedroom closet in the hope of finding the entrance to King Solomon's mine.

In this short talk Guy gives further thoughts on the subject of fixed and free attention.

Spiritual liberation is not an attainment; real freedom is not an achievement, let alone the by-product of belief. (It is) a grace-granted realization that we are not who we’ve mistaken ourselves to be...

Classroom Talk: 12/14/2025 - You can't escape any unwanted experience of yourself because that is the experience you don’t want! The Good news is this experience of yourself is not your true Self…but, for now, it is largely the only (sense of) self you’re given to know.

Classroom Talk: 05/25/2025 - It’s not by accident that we reach interim points of mounting resistance in our work to be free, any more than we accidentally meet the challenge of some uncertain, unstable ground that waits to be gained the nearer we come to the summit of a mountain.

Everything is right before your eyes. It actually is. What the eyes can take in, the mind can really wrap itself around. Whenever there is crisis a challenge of some kind, the content of our minds rush in and provide us with a familiar path, which seems to be an escape route but really turns out to be the circle of that self. The road that needs to be taken is one that isn't really seen other...

Whoever seeks power to set himself free has forgotten that his True Nature cannot be made a captive of anything, so that his struggle serves only his forgetfulness and secretly strengthens the bars of his imagined cell.

Topics explored in this dialogue: The more we achieve, the more we feel we have to achieve, and the more we fear losing what we have; We feel both something in us that wants us to succeed, and that which wants to sabotage us; Truthful ideas are intended to sow a seed of discontent with the life we currently have.

There is no road that leads to real life: real life is Presence, not a place to go.