Classroom Talk: 9/15/2002 - Stillness is the backdrop of all that moves, and one's unwavering awareness of this Stillness is the backdrop of the Eternal Opposites at play in ceaseless motion. This means that within one's own awakened state of awareness rests not only the potential to transcend the passages of time, but to live within an un-passing, unsurpassed, and Timeless Peace that might be called the Ground of God.

Topics covered: The essential laws of peace, power, and perfect living; We've lost touch with our "true" nature; We know ourselves as a kind of an echo; Life is not trying to take something from me when it appears to go south; Conditions in life reveal to me a level of consciousness in myself; We resist our own imagined states; I judge because I feel superior to what I'm judging; A difficult m...

Topics Covered: Resistance claims to know in advance how to be at peace; Use your life to discover the truth that sets you free; You can't have a judgment without there being something in place prior to the moment; Is the feeling of a negative state pleasurable, or painful?; With every judgment there is an attending pain; The pain begins with a consciousness that already knows...

Classroom Talk: 7/2/2023 - Part 1: Here is why it's impossible to run after, let alone come to possess real peace of mind: the same moment we set out to do so... we disturb it. Part 2: Here is the unseen cause of the great circle of human conflict and suffering: we unconsciously resist the appearance, realization, and hence the reconciliation of (our) collective and individual karma, accordingly.

Topics covered: When you are in double attention you are alone; Peace isn't possible on a global level; An aspirant realizes "I am responsible for the world."; Your true nature is like a river -- even as you are looking at it, it's changing; The heart has its own intelligence; You must learn to ask for something different; We don't remember ourselves because we don't own our own mind; You don'...

Topics covered: The secret intention of every exercise is to impose an idea that, if adopted, produces an obstruction in the habitual flow of mechanical energy through the body; We eat to forget; The only thing that stands between you and the Divine is your capacity to suffer; At the point where another person can't use their suffering, you can agree to use it; Learning to be at peace with pai...

Student Talks: 2/11/2022 - Key Lesson: The more we realize our higher, true role in life is to act as an agent for atoning the appearance of "what is" with "what has been" -- by agreeing to surrender the parts of us that interfere with this reconciliation -- the more we see the beauty of this sacrifice as inseparable from an ineffable peace that comes with no longer being apart from Real Life.

Topics covered: You can't separate what is true in you from what is eternal; Time always reveals when you've put your faith in the wrong things; The only way real change takes place is when you can't see what you've always known ahead of or behind you; You are the time you are in; A machine harnesses opposing forces; Choosing to live in an uncreated moment; Peace is the full understanding of d...

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of August 26, 2013. Until the peace and pleasure found within you is equal to -- or greater than any consolation found outside of yourself -- then your power to be patient, loving, and profitable in every moment is, at best, conditional; nothing better serves to sustain anger, frustration, and fear than being identified with a level of self whose life is...

Topics covered: Discussion of Guy's new book on Relationship Magic; Blessed are those who cannot find peace, happiness, and consolation in this world; We are called to be in relationship with another order of being; Love brings us together so that we can see limitations in ourselves and release them; You cannot remain who and what you've been; My pain is not more important than yours; Love nev...

Part 1: Anxiety, along with its externalized expression -- rushing -- is a painful pressure created by the divided mind that first imagines something is missing from your life, and that then insists if you don't rush to make right this wrong... you will never know peace again. Part 2: All forms of rushing are the vain attempt to reach 'someplace' else -- as quickly as possible -- in order to e...

There is no reward for love, let alone for being “loving.” Either love ITSELF is the reward, or it is not.