Student Talks: 3/28/2025 - We can be -- and often are -- sound asleep going through the motions of life with our eyes wide open. To be able to see — to be aware of - what our mind is actually looking at, experiencing, and responding to…is the first step in the process of awakening; it not only strengthens our wish to attend to the present moment, but to remember that any time our mind is unattended…it slumbers in fitful dreams, from which it cannot awaken itself. 

Topics covered: The mind seeks in time what can only be given in the present moment, which is a relationship with the Divine that is already being given to you; Tension is the gap between what you imagine you need and how long it takes to get there; You will never find peace in a time to come. It doesn't exist there. The idea of a "time to come" is the very disturbance in which you live because you believe in things that you don't understand...

In this Saturday discussion Guy elaborates on the purpose of the attention exercises and why the development of attention is necessary to our spiritual life. As human beings we are shut off from the world of higher impressions because the divided mind seeks an outcome for...

The reason perfect love casts out fear is because any unwanted condition willingly embraced loses its power over us.

The first step to breaking out of any rut in life is to no longer enable the parts of us that keep walking in them while wishing they weren't so deep.

Topic: Step Out of the Flood of Negative Thoughts and Feelings; Questions: Are there times when negativity is appropriate; I can't keep control of my emotions; How does one go about dismantling the false self; What does it mean that fear is a shadow; Why is it so difficult to carry remembrance of these ideas into daily life; Is breathing connected to staying in the present moment; When we are...

Topics covered: Why is it so hard to let go and live in the present moment; I wish to be fearless, spontaneous, and cheerful but life's challenges leave me baffled; Is there a distinction between positive and negative feelings; How should I respond to other peoples' fears; How can I grow past limiting situations in the workplace; What is the true meaning of being 'God-fearing'; How do I find s...

In this Saturday discussion the topic explored is violence and its manifestations in our lives. Guy explains that no one can have true compassion that doesn't first see the violence within. Violence, seen fully, is when opposing forces meet. In nature opposing forces are successfully reconciled in each moment...

Part of our essential need to be at peace is to know that we are in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing, and to know it in such a fashion that nothing can come along and convince us that we are not. Have you ever thought to yourself "I'm doing the right thing at the right time," and someone said, "No, you're not," and then everything fell apart?...

iving within us dwells an order of being that knows, without thinking about it, what is authentically good for us and others.

The proof that every moment - including the most painful of them - is unlimited in its Divine possibility is that one soul perishes for the fear of them, while another (soul) is perfected, and liberated by the same. Simply put, that means that every single moment of our life holds within it, if you will, a kind of fork in the road. "I came upon a fork in the road and I took the one that was least traveled."

What do you recommend doing to prepare for the future and events being predicted in an unstable world?...