I have walked away from an abusive relationship and pain medications as well as the subsequent physical and psychological withdrawal. Every morning when I wake up, I am met with dark voices that tell me life is meaningless. Panic sets in and the fear is wrecking my body. I cannot go back to the life I had but I seem unable to find faith and hope for a higher life. I know this old self must pas...

I can't seem to reconcile something within myself... I understand the acceptance of the incoming moment. I also understand that for every want there has to be a "don't want." Does having a "preference" fit into the equation? If so, how? For example: I notice a growth on my eye and go to see a doctor. The doctor tells me that I have to have surgery to save my vision. I accept the incoming momen...

I once had ample quiet time and meditated regularly. I grew and was more grounded. Now I live in a big city with neighbors all around me. It's loud, and the noise can be obtrusive and disturbing. I know we must participate and not isolate, but how can I let this go? How can I know if this disturbance and lack of focus is just a lower level of myself that I can and must learn to work through, o...

My partner of many years recently took his own life. His poor choices had long caused an immense strain (emotionally and financially) on the family, and our children lost all respect for him. I want to move my family forward out of the black place we are in. While I failed my partner by enabling him and being impatient with him, I do not now want to fail my children. I would appreciate any adv...

In the last meeting during his recent talks at Kripalu, Guy told a story about a hero who overcame the beasts that blocked the book of Life by "choosing love"...and then he went on to talk about a missing "spiritual element" in our live that he called "U2." This whole concept made a big impression on and within me. I would really appreciate hearing more on this subject as it somehow makes a sh...

During a recent online chat event I asked you how I can stop getting bad bosses. You told me, "birds of a feather flock together." My boss is a stingy, heartless @#!%*!. I have given employees money out of my own pocket to pay for the bounced check fees that my boss has incurred, along with other ways of trying to protect them from him. I am not stingy and I treat them with kindness and respec...

Classroom Talk: 7/30/2021 - Our greatest gift -- our highest possibility -- may be summarized as follows: not only are we created to give ourselves to what we love, but we are able to discern the difference between an order of Love that sacrifices itself for the sake of something greater than itself, and a kind of love that lives only to give itself what it imagines will make it great.

Why do so many of your lessons leave me feeling so confused?...

What is more powerful -- the sex energy or my own true nature? My gut feeling is that it is my true nature, the free mind, and this means that I have a choice whether I want sex or not in my life. By exercising this choice, I am the master and sex energy is the tool. I, the master, will decide whether to use this tool or not. The tool does not have any power over me. While this is my understan...

One of our neighbors has done something to their property that is proving to be an immense problem for us and seems very unfair. I want to let go of the circumstance, and yet I feel as though I mustn't just allow this individual to dominate the atmosphere of the very place I call home. I don't really want to fight with his person, but don't know what else to do. How do I let go of my disappoin...

I feel like I'm stuck! I need some kind of new motivation for doing things that I just don't feel like doing, even though I know I need to do them. Where do I look? I find myself constantly justifying putting off what really needs to be done. Parts of me convince me that I'm entitled to procrastinate, yet the end result is always that I suffer over the inevitable consequences! Oftentimes I kno...

I've noticed that the more I hear people complain about their unwanted circumstances in life, the less likely they are to do anything to change them. It makes me wonder if I'm just as ungrateful and unwilling! Many religious and spiritual teachers talk about "tithing" or giving away 10% of your income. Is this something we should all do? What is the reason for doing it? I feel grateful for the...