There is likely nothing more painfully mistaken -- no greater impediment to the realization of our freedom than the feeling that we are somehow entitled to it; we are entitled to nothing, and yet -- even in this world of spellbound souls who can only dream of being free -- we may have anything for which we're willing to make the appropriate payment.

Best keep your eye on the interior life; let it be first and foremost. If the direction of outer life interferes with the awareness of the inner, follow the inner. Better they marry, but never allow what is outer to have precedence over the inner... and should this be so, if you're not yet able to do otherwise, then let this (state) be as a sorrow to you until, from out of it, comes the discip...

In this short talk Guy reveals that we have the capacity to express more emotion than we know. The sun doesn't have to work to be radiant; the sun is something and does something at the same time.

How can I tell which thoughts and feelings are the right ones to leave where I find them, and which ones to pick up? What if I make a mistake? I can sometimes go for two or three weeks without suffering from overt negativity. Then, out of the blue, I'll have a day where bad thoughts and feelings crawl all over me in a persistent attack. What's going on? I am so sick of my mind. Every thought I...

Could the light of timeless truths, spoken by masters over thousands of years -- the hope and promise they hold about our own latent higher possibilities -- help liberate us from the host of fears that hold our consciousness hostage? Imagine the end of all forms of fanaticism born of imagined differences, the beginning of a new order of peace created from the collective understanding that *al...

Topics covered:  "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." -- C.S. Lewis; What is the nature of the emptiness that we have never been able to escape no matter what we have done?; Depression is the inevitable outcome of misunderstanding. It is a sin (missing the mark) to fall into depression because life has not given you what you want from it.

Topics covered:  You can't be at peace with the moment itself until you are at peace with yourself; It is inevitable that everything in nature is always being acted upon and being completed through that action. Why is that not true of us when it comes to a relationship with the Divine? What is interfering with this "Divine inevitability"?; What is it within us that sets boundaries? We end up as prisoners locked within the very boundaries that have been set, and then fear anything that threatens to trespass. We become walking "No Trespassing" signs.

Topics covered: How does one resolve active and passive forces moment by moment; Why does my mind do its best to avoid stillness; My search for answers has taken me down many paths -- how do I know what's true; With so much greed and deception in the world, how can I trust the universe is unfolding as it should; I don't want to censor myself just because people are overly sensitive; How can I...

In this special Saturday discussion during our Holiday Banquet Weekend, Guy answers questions on a variety of inner life topics, including: The real work begins in earnest when you realize that your mind is always occupied; You are given two gifts -- time and attention; Don't let a day go by without setting a spiritual intention; How do you know that you're on the right path; You can't hold on...

To rise above our present level of self, we must outgrow its unseen limitation. To outgrow any limitation, we must become conscious of its nature. To become aware of any unconscious nature in us, we must learn how to impersonally witness it. To impersonally witness a lower level of self is to see it through a higher order of being... a ceaseless action whose realization is the same as the Trut...

If someone can say something to you about yourself that causes you to crash and burn -- so that you never stop smoldering over what they have said -- it's only because you have yet to see the truth of yourself. Here's the fact that not only proves the above, but within it rests the only real solution to this kind of suffering: Any truth you realize about yourself cancels both the fear of that...

The divided mind looks for difference; it ceaselessly judges all that it sees in order to confirm its false (and fearful) perception that it's separate and apart from life. But the awakening mind... sees within itself a living symmetry between all things above and below, and knows this similarity to be the framework of Love.