The meditative life is not limited to sitting down someplace quietly, nor is it limited to someplace in time where we can control conditions so that we can experience something of a quiet mind. It can be said that meditation is the active relationship that an individual has with the whole of his or her life. Indeed, if we were able to see clearly enough into our own life, we would see some...

Someone I loved dearly was murdered recently. I am able to see what seems like thousands of thoughts and have noticed when just one thought takes me away into the darkness. To come back to just noticing and watching these thoughts enables me to accept my feelings without allowing them to drown me. But what I would like to know is, does my soul feel a forever kind of loss of him? Or is the grie...

In this Saturday discussion Guy explains that our body is the instrument of relationship and the more we are able to participate in anything, the fuller the experience. We are intended to see that every moment is an introduction...

Topics covered: What we call "experience" is a relationship between our outer and inner worlds; Nothing empowers us more than self-knowledge; It's not the condition we need to let go of but our attachment to it; If I'm not present to reactions then I'm ruled by the emotions that fuel them; We must be present to ourselves if we wish to discern the difference between what is helpful vs. what is...

When we understand that our true purpose in life is to grow in the wisdom of God’s plan, and that this wisdom we seek itself seeks us to help its goodness be revealed, then we also realize that whatever disappointments we encounter along the way must themselves be a part of wisdom’s eternal plan.

Why do we limit the impression we have of any given moment? We never limit an impression when we're sitting in front of a nice plate of food. Can't get enough of that! We never limit the impression of the idea of some beautiful place to go where we're going to have a marvelous time. There's no limitation to the impression produced by imagination. We want it with every bit of our being!

It seems natural to fear moments we don't want, to avoid any knock at the door of some untimely event. But it's not these moments themselves that we are afraid of: what we fear is our reaction to them, so that we can't see that this experience we don't want... is actually the pain of a negative reaction as it unfolds within us.

There is a nature inside of us -- a product of this world physically and psychologically -- that does not want to change. In fact, it is hell-bent on having everything remain the same so that it can complain about the same things again and again. This unconscious nature is a product of our world physically and psychologically. It's almost like a wrapping -- much like a seed is encased...

Enlightenment is not an "achievement" because it can never be a static state. (It is) a level of being that sees, effortlessly, that Real Life is secretly a single, beautiful movement incapable of contradicting itself. The more we realize how this timeless celestial truth includes everything that happens to us...

Don't be afraid to let the truth strike you. What does this mean? Whether in simple truths like the ones you're about to read, or in a moment of great personal crisis, don't fear what life is trying to show you about itself and about you. Welcome it! Yes! Don't resist anything that threatens to pull the rug out from under your feet. Welcome it! Why? Try to see the wisdom...

Have you ever wondered why you're so easily upset by the unexpected? It's not really you who feels shaky when situations shift without warning. It's who you think you are that feels threatened -- but you don't have to go on feeling afraid. Beginning right now, with some patient self-investigation and the aid of a few higher facts, you will discover that you are not who you think you are. T...

Topics covered: You give yourself to what you love; We are drawn to what is active in us; What it means to let go; Understanding can't be acted upon until there's something in you that's able to do it; Love is not in time; Thinking from the pain vs. toward the pain; Learn to love Truth even when you don't know what Truth is; Peace is not the effect of an action; Everything that shows me where...