In this Saturday discussion Guy explores what binds us in any given moment. Part of being bound is directly related to being self-conscious, and being self-conscious is the cause of 99% of what troubles us. The spiritual path is discovering when we've made something...

Part 1 No one is willing to risk losing a "fight" until he or she sees that there's nothing to be gained by going another 10 rounds in the same ring. Part 2 Hoping to make a real change in some painful pattern with a loved one, without being willing to risk what may happen to you by deliberately stepping outside of that pattern, is like walking around in a circle and wondering why y...

Authentic spiritual teachings are designed to do two things at once: first, to help us remember that our true nature -- Real "I" -- is an unconditional strength born of an unconditional love. But, the second part of this teaching -- equal in every way to the first, and why the vast majority of aspirants reject true interior teachings -- is as follows: we must also agree to see where some for...

Wanting love from God, without first giving God your love is like wanting to be in better shape before you start a long-overdue exercise program.

Count all those many things you have ever given to yourself, and then ask: "What real meaning have they today?" Then reflect a moment on those things of meaning you gave to others at a cost to yourself. By such retrospective you will make this glad discovery: the true meaning of giving is better found in what you are willing to take from yourself.

I recently went through two life changes -- my cat died and my boyfriend broke up with me in the space of a few days. I had experienced major depression prior to this, but when these unfortunate events happened, I suffered so greatly that it transcended into a spiritual awakening. Reading your books and listening to your podcasts has shifted my entire perspective of my self/suffering, and over...

Part 1 Those who seek the Kingdom of Heaven are always in the right place, at the right time, to see their cup filled, and to drink from it... as freely as they will. Part 2 You have been granted a relative forever; a living "time" in which to either find a freedom and permanent fulfillment that only love can provide... Or, to live imprisoned in the pain-giving illusion that nothi...

Part 1 You can no more separate a painful pattern in your life from the unseen part of yourself responsible for its return... than you can blame your face for the unhappiness you see upon it while looking in the mirror. Part 2 If we want "all there is" -- the full measure of love, joy, a life without limitation -- then we must learn what it means to accept all there is - even when...

Classroom Talk: 7/15/2020 - The real reason "why" we should "love our neighbor" as ourselves is only answered as we agree to see – by the Light of the Divine -- that their life is, in fact, the same as our own. It is this Love -- and only this Love -- that frees us from the pain of judging others, as well as the suffering born of judging ourselves.

Topics covered: The reaction to the pain seems to be different than the pain itself; When you try to figure out what your pain is about, you do it from the mistaken position of thinking you're the light figuring out the darkness; You cannot truly know what love is without at least gradually understanding what the love of God is; Real love has no position at all.

Part 1 Honesty heals; lies hurt. In these four words lives all one needs to know and practice, that is assuming one wishes to be whole, harmless, loving, and true. Part 2 Here is a truth that's hard to swallow, but like any true medicine... it heals those who will take it: we are only as lost in this life as we are conditioned to either accept the lies that we tell ourselves -- abou...

Part I: Contrary to popular psychotic belief, God did not create us to look upon His Life as a wish-fulfillment center. Instead we are created to live in the awareness that God's life is the center of our being, and that to realize this relationship answers all of our wishes because Love itself has then become our life. Part II: Learning to be grateful for the lessons hard learned is the secr...