Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of October 22, 2018. We must persist in finding out that we don't know what we think we do... until the presence of any "knower" within us is seen as being one and the same as the cause of all our useless suffering.

It is what we are willing to learn in the unfolding moment, and not what we think we already know that finally turns the tide of any trial in our favor. This is why the wise ones have always taught that knowledge is the seed of wisdom, but its flowering is in conscious action.

It's imperative to meet each moment of your life with this realization: it's only what you do right now that is the seed of change.

The mind asleep to itself doesn't realize that it created the problem that it can't stop trying to resolve...

As goes your attention, so comes your experience. As goes your attention, so comes your possibilities; All possibilities already exist within consciousness; Instead of being aware of all of our relationships, we presently think about our relationships; We presently experience the world only from the outside-in, whereby the outside world must line up with ideas of how events should unfold...

In this answer to a viewer's question, Guy explains that the task for us is not to try to suppress negativity through our own effort. Instead, the task is to watch, to be aware of the negativity so that its actual harmful nature can be revealed. Awareness already knows what to do with negativity without us having to think about it.

Topics covered: Spiritually speaking, anytime you think you've reached the end, you're not there yet; It doesn't matter what direction you set off in because, through your willingness to address the results of your efforts, your course will keep adjusting; Clarification comes through action; Difference between a 'producer' and an 'effect' -- an effect has a sense of self connected to it, where...

Topics covered: Perception of events rather than facts of events; Sense of self that is dependent on what others think; Fear stemming from protecting identities that come and go with changing conditions; Gaining true alignment through revelations; Understanding the purpose of what is taking place in a moment; Standing at the center of creation; How fear guides life experiences; Cultivating the...

Topics explored in this dialogue: When we become worried or frightened it's because we think we've met a moment greater than us; What we call the world around us is our perception through our thoughts; A man who is conscious to himself will not compromise himself; Clarity is sanity in the end; There's a golden thread of truth in every path...

Everyone can agree that no intelligent, conscious man or woman would ever intentionally hurt him- or herself. No one would choose to ache. Yet the fact remains that all of us do hurt ourselves every day when we harbor self-compromising thoughts and feelings like anger, stress, and resentment. Even at the simplest level, there is no doubt that fear and worry take an immense toll on our health and well-being.

For the majority of us, what we call being renewed has nothing to do with what is real renewal. Mostly what we feel as renewal is when some idea or a hope that we have gets fulfilled, filling us in turn with a sense of excitement; and then, in that feeling of being full of ourselves, comes a certain kind of pleasure that we take as being the same as self-renewal in this life.

Remastered Classic Talk: 04/27/16 - The present moment is the door of perception -- and if, when you look through it, you see something you recognize -- or otherwise think you know -- then all you're really seeing is a reflection of your self upon the mirrored surface of the door. The true door of perception opens... only into the unknown.