Topics covered: You are not whole inside; A new order of attention is born out of outgrowing the positive and negative stimuli of desire; The wish and the work that it takes to change yourself is incompatible with the wish to be comfortable; The pursuit of comfort is always born out of resistance; Real comfort is the absence of the opposites; Bible passage: The light dwelleth in the darkness a...

Topics covered: Comments about our attention exercise at lunch; Do what you don't want to do because that's the only way you meet the opposite that's doing; 'Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light'; The real work is to create in you a living sun/Son; Taking vs. giving; The view at a higher altitude exists prior to you being there; There is no 'you' the...

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...

What is the best way to remain aware of ourselves and our thoughts so that we stay anchored with consciousness while studying or doing any other work?...

Topics covered: Questions from Guy's webinar on procrastination and inertia; What is the relationship between presence and attention; Why is it so easy for me to go along with the divided mind; Does awareness have the ability to comprehend things without thinking; How do I stay grounded during the day when I'm unable to do my spiritual practices in the morning; How do we protect ourselves agai...

Remastered Classic Talk: 6/28/17 - 

Part 1: Only complete action on our part has the power to teach us, completely, those lessons that real Life would have us learn.

Part 2: Regardless of circumstance, our first action must be to give our complete attention to all that we are being given to see, and to be... accordingly. This is how we realize the Good: the all-at-once justice and mercy that lay hidden in every moment of time.

Topics covered: Spiritual ideas are worse than useless, unless you apply them in the laboratory of your everyday experience. You cannot fail, if you work; The problem with relying on a bucket-list to make you happy is that the bucket has no bottom; What we see now is only what is in the foreground, so that our experience is only what our attention is on in the foreground. But there could not be a foreground without a background...

Topics covered: If I can put my attention where I want, I can't be compromised by anything; You must not try to receive life; The nature that can be carried away by a want will never know peace; If you don't truly understand emptiness you will never know true fullness; We are afraid of leftovers; We need a 'me' detector to go in front of us into every moment; You can't know the nature of a wan...

Topics covered: If you had one minute to express, from your heart, what you've learned from your life, what would you say; without humility a human being can't change; humility is one of the anchors of attention; you can't give yourself humility but you can invite it into your life; blaming anyone or anything outside of you is an act of lunacy by a lunatic who is trying to keep the asylum in p...

Part 1: Only complete action on our part has the power to teach us, completely, those lessons that real Life would have us learn. Part 2: Regardless of circumstance, our first action must be to give our complete attention to all that we are being given to see, and to be... accordingly. This is how we realize the Good: the all-at-once justice and mercy that lay hidden in every moment of time.

Remastered Classic Talk: 12/21/16 - The Kingdom of Heaven -- the True Self for which we seek -- dwells within us, and above us at the same time. To sense this as true, even in the smallest way, is an invitation and an instruction, all at once. For not only must we know "where" these Divine forces meet and marry within us, but that we must also develop the attention we need to be able to stand "there"...in the midst of their eternal convergence.

 

We are wrongly led to believe that life makes us into the kind of person we are. In truth, it's our level of self-understanding that makes life what it is for us! This is why nothing can really change for us until we see the truth of the following: trying to change some condition in life, without first changing the consciousness responsible for its appearance is like... blaming the mirror for...