Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of September 15, 2014. What is the nature of any order of enlightenment if not a sudden realization that one's former limitations are an illusion; that what once seemed so real, so dark or impassable, isn't real at all. The dawning of this inner light proves our fears to be without substance. So that what we outgrow in these moments isn't some fearful co...

When you go outside on a beautiful day and step into the sunlight, do you have to try to enjoy the warmth? Or is the warmth of the sun just part of what is there, and you are a part of it? Similarly, real meditation is effortless. It is the fulfillment of natural relationship, not the attempt on our part to create relationship. Your being itself is meditating, as it is a natural part of the wh...

In this discussion Guy explains that we are intended to have a direct relationship with the Divine. Presently we unnecessarily go through an intermediary to find the relationship we have been seeking. But a mind that is in constant contradiction can't see itself as it actually is. When we begin to realize this inherent contradiction within our present level of self and not blame anything outsi...

Topics covered: The more that you participate in a dark interior dialog, the darker it becomes; Anything that says you have a right to be negative is set upon the destruction of your soul; You are never going to think your way out of a negative reaction. The more you think about why you are negative, the more negative you become; Creation never stops completing itself through the relationships...

Topics covered: We live within a timeless intelligence that waits for us to grow into it. All truths that we will ever discover already exist, waiting to be discovered; You cannot grow into something without growing out of something else; What you are waiting for is already waiting for you before you even thought to wait for it; Unchecked negative reactions spoil all relationships into which they appear...

Topics covered: Everything that we do in life originates within us from a single impulse; The original impulse to seek relationships is to realize unity; Within the seeker already exists the discovery; Reaction is a lower level engagement with life; A new mind is required to have a new life, and a new mind begins with new self-knowledge; The teacher is the passage of time and the events that a...

We are created and each of us is intended to discover the truth of ourselves within ourselves; no authorities are needed. Our lives -- and all of our relationships as revealed in the present moment -- are the ground we must plow. These soils, rendered receptive through conscious humiliation, are seeded with our intention to be kind and true to one another, to give up our selfish ways, and to willingly embrace whatever life lessons we need to further...

There is at work in us an undetected nature that will not allow the cause of our pain to pass so that healing may take place. Can we see that we have parts of us that just won't let go of being angry with someone who got angry with us? But that's not all! Can we also see that these same smoldering parts of ourselves would have us believe that being on fire is the best way to get over being bu...

Classroom Talk: 1/5/2020 - Part 1: No seed -- whether a kernel of corn, or a special talent -- can prove itself more valuable than the sweat it takes to sow it -- cultivate & nourish it -- until it offers up its latent Good. In much the same way, the soul is a seed; relationships are its ground; and what grows when all is properly cared for... is Love...

Each moment is unique; never to come again... and this includes all of our relationships as they're revealed through the celestial conditions that converge to create them. This is why our one real wish should be -- as best we're able to remember it -- to never rush through any moment of life; otherwise we lose the always new and higher possibilities inherent in its very appearance.

Lesson 14: Once we understand how to use them... life's many unwanted twists and turns are no longer seen as being just isolated, disjointed experiences under whose yoke we are born to be burdened, but instead are realized as unique opportunities whose rewards are the lessons that can lead us, if we will follow, up to and through the successful education of our soul. Lesson 17: When...

I am an addict and have been involved in a bad relationship. I have listened to you and it has encouraged me to dig much deeper to find out why I would stay in such an unhappy relationship. Two things came up. One is that I am terrified to be with my own company as I don't like "me," and second, a lie: the promise of a day when I can finally rest and be taken care of. I have found strength in...