To hold a wish to punish someone begins with the unconscious embrace of the very pain we wish to inflict.
It is possible for us to learn to attract success, instead of trying to chase it down through years of toil, disappointment, and heartache. So how do we do it? How do we learn to attract the success we want instead of letting the desire for the objects of success push us around from problem to problem? The answer is simple: We begin to doubt what compromises us. This means that we will no lo...
Whatever we seek -- or find -- outside of awareness itself is not what we’re really looking for. Our eventual, but inevitable discontentment with whatever we find proves this fact: what we truly seek lives in a world above the ceaseless cycle of pleasure and pain, where nothing changes except for what we hope to save ourselves through or from. But, as yet, either we’re unable -- or unwilling -- to see this truth that is the secret corner stone of self-realization.
All of our relationships exist for a single beautiful purpose that expresses itself in two different ways: 1) everyone and everything is in our life to help us grow; and 2) everyone and everything is also there in our life to help us see everything in us that now stands in the way of our realizing this same higher possibility.
It's a simple, beautiful truth: Resentment hurts. Forgiveness heals. In all cases. No matter what. The problem is that sometimes it's really hard to forgive. There is a part of our mind that loves to hold on to painful thoughts and feelings -- even though they aren't good for us. It's not our fault that our minds have been conditioned to work this way, but now that we know what's g...
For one of our August meetings Guy suggested we do something different: we would leave behind our usual meeting room, and instead hold our discussion in a nearby park. As we gathered in this natural setting next to the Rogue River, we sensed we would hear something special this morning; something that would pull us further out of our old selves. And indeed, in his talk Guy showed us quite clea...
Several times a week the Foundation receives emails from people who are bitter, broken-hearted, or just plain angry because of what happened to them while growing up and going through the myriad miserable relationships they had no choice but to go through (especially as abused children). In short, these people feel almost fully defeated in their effort to put a painful past behind them. I sa...
The Divine journey involves the preparation of an individual by another, higher order of awareness (that already lies hidden within us), so that we're able to see that the ceaseless, seemingly individual waves of the passing events of our lives belong to a much broader, grander relationship. And they exist for the purpose of our development, and not to torment us with what we fear is going to be...
If there could be only one idea -- a lamp whose light could show the aspirant of real life the way out of the prison of dark thoughts and punishing feelings -- it would surely be this: your true self doesn't win in life by overpowering problems but by revealing they never really existed as you once believed they did. Truths such as this can be difficult to accept. Tell some people...
Within each of us there is an expansive world of thoughts and feelings whose movements determine how we perceive and experience the world outside of us. While this inner-world of thoughts and feelings may not directly bring us what we see, it does profoundly influence how we see our world of relationships and events. In other words, we are seeing the exterior but experiencing the interior. One...
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For those wishing a deeper relationship with the Divine, here are specific practices to take out into your daily life to achieve each moment’s new possibilities. Learn how to acquire true self-knowledge, and then put it into practice, which are the two conditions needed to change the way we see the world, and thus change the world we see. Special bonus: 51-page PDF transcript of the talks.
Part 1: Each moment of life is only as precious as our ability to be in it. Part 2: We know life by its movement -- by its parade of passing things, and by our thoughts about them that lend us a ceaseless sensation of ourselves. But to know our True Self, to dwell in its timeless sanctuary through which all the forms of life come and go -- then we must know stillness....