Before we can ever learn to love one another as we would hope to do, we must first be willing to see that for too long we have loved only ourselves . . . and that even this has been done poorly.

Classroom Talk: 8/21/2002 - Whatever is True, Right, and Real in any human being need no more seek approval for its own nature than does an eagle in full flight hope to hear the "caw-caw" of some crow below it, calling out to it about how confident it looks soaring alone through the wide, open sky!

Human beings walk around in a kind of self-made suffering that is the expression of something in us that is afraid of seeing ourselves as we are. We've come to think that avoiding a unwanted fact about ourselves is the same as escaping the effects. Our lives should be a ceaseless realization of where we miss the mark, because that is the only way to transcend the idea that...

Ruling ourselves is second nature when remembering ourselves is our first priority.

Your thoughts can no more tell you what is true about your possibilities than can a set of stream-side boulders know the nature of the waters that rush by them.

Topics covered: Discussion of Guy's online workshop on 'Relationship Magic'; Discovering one's purpose in all relationships; Exploring what it is that draws us to or repels us from particular relationships; Relationships awaken us to parts of ourselves we weren't aware of before; Learning to use differences to heal past misunderstandings; Reverting back versus converting to a new relationship;...

There is no greater, more reliable teacher of true self-knowledge than intentional patience and, when married to a willingness to observe oneself through the stillness and sacrifice that such patience demands, there exists no swifter, more sure path to self-realization.

Observe the amount of self-induced drama that drives the lives of those around you...and you will also see the amount of unseen emptiness that stalks them wherever they go.

Classroom Talk: 2/26/2003 - Learn to let go of trying to protect yourself from psychological storms and watch how that tempest (in you) is actually just a "tea-pot" busy brewing up a discontented self.

Key Lesson: We gaze upon a brightly colored veil -- see it flutter in the breeze of some passing event -- and call it the world.

Any negative reaction that serves as the seed of some action we take in order to avoid an unwanted revelation about ourselves must -- and will -- "grow up" to become the next thing we oppose in life!...

Classroom Talk: 8/4/2002 - All partial loves prove themselves to be just that; and in their inevitable passing we are always returned to that bittersweet realization that the love we long for can never become the possession of the self that longs.