Each day we hear a knock on our psychological door, and when we open it a pushy person enters and begins to bark out orders: "Worry about this." "Remember and regret that." "Work harder!" Is it little wonder we experience only the most fleeting feelings of love, kindness or relaxation? We are all the time being pushed along by something that calls itself an authority, and without ever questi...

What would "heaven" be to you?...

I've been trying for sixty years to overcome my negative, dark states. I'm divorced, lonely, have no kids... I'm broke and likely to lose my job next year. I have lost all hope of ever changing. I feel like I have nothing to live for and I'm not going to become "enlightened." I can't find a purpose in my every day life. On my best days, I talk myself into believing I'm a child of God, and for...

Would you shine some light on this subject so I can see it? I was listening to the talk you gave on the truth behind spiritual rebirth and there was a part in the talk where the attention of the talk was briefly pointed to us not being aware of "the authenticity of the kind of suffering that serves the purpose of the creature". So the question is: What is the authenticity of the kind of s...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of April 23, 2018. If attending to, and then surrendering oneself to the will of the Divine fulfills the highest possible purpose of one's real life -- and one works inwardly, as faithfully as one can to live this understanding -- then slowly, but surely appears a new kind of freedom...

The true purpose of any troublesome "mountain" that seems to appear out of nowhere -- standing directly between us and what we want -- isn't to make us into better climbers, or even to somehow claim its summit; such barriers exist for a single reason: to help us see that no impassable "mountain" exists apart from the unconscious mind that creates it.

In this special talk on attention Guy explains that we must begin to separate ourselves from interior and exterior influences because presently, we are ruled by them. We are meant to be a co-creator in using what we've been given for its intended purpose. Revelation is integration and this is discovering the relationship with what is whole. But tension separates us...

Classroom Talk: 8/4/2021 - There can be no reconciliation with (painful) karma until we enter it understanding the following truth: whatever sacrifice is asked of us to release our suffering serves a higher purpose than can be known by the parts of us thus called to realize them; and to that Divine end -- and for it alone -- do we surrender ourselves to a Timeless Intelligence greater than our own.

Topics explored in this dialogue: We've lost sight of the true purpose of our own existence; The stone underneath the surface is every bit as heavy as the one on the surface; Anger is always the way in which fear hides itself; Follow and find the part of you that is not intended to be dominated by any dark state; The real definition of a fearless life is the...

Topics explored in this dialogue: Fearful moments, while challenging, are an invitation to begin the painful but necessary possibility of awakening, so we come to understand the purpose of our existence on this planet; We think we should be able to control the world we're in, but we forget that we are creations first and then creators; Negative states are set up in us by our resistance to even...

Classroom Talk: 7/24/2024 - The true purpose of any troublesome “mountain” that seems to appear out of nowhere – standing directly between us and what we want -- isn't to make us into better climbers, or even to finally crest its summit; such barriers exist for a single reason: to help us see that no impassable “mountain” exists apart from the unconscious mind that has created it.

Topics covered: Bear the manifestation of yourself that you are being given in the moment to see. You are being given something to see about yourself so that you might go through a change; You are the center of every moment of creation because you are centered in a place where all celestial forces come streaming down into you for the purpose of revelation...