The only thing "special" about trying to appear unique in the eyes of others is the special kind of suffering that must be endured whenever we pretend to be what we are not.

Topics covered: Discussion of Guy's new book on Relationship Magic; We blame because we don't understand it is our pain not theirs; Relationships are the most important resource we have; Relationships are the messengers of love and healing; Past painful events are never healed until revealed; The moment is the teacher; Love never hates, attacks, or blames; We look for relationships as replacem...

The purer the heart, the more protected it is by its own nature.

If we wish a life that is whole and loving, one that is filled with new light, then we must sow the eternal seeds of Truth within ourselves.

Here is an exercise to help you take the first step up and away from self-punishing feelings. This exercise is called: Is This What I Really Want? You do not have to accept any inner condition that compromises your happiness. Read over the next sentence several times before proceeding further. It is never right to feel wrong no matter how right you may think you are to be feeling that wa...

No one can know what his or her interior work is for...not really; not any more than a single rain drop that washes clean a flower can know the bee attracted to its bright petals...that goes from there to pollinate what it will. Of course, one can imagine freedom, compassion, an all-encompassing Love and Light that transforms whatever it touches; but all dreams are of the finite world...and...

Part 1 Where fear dominates, love cannot flourish; when love is shackled, freedom is too. Without freedom, transformation only furthers fragmentation; and the more divided we are, the more reasons we find to accept the tyranny of fear, blame, and doubt. Part 2 Until we are willing and able to put ourselves in the shoes of another, we have not yet stepped upon the true Upward Path.

Just as we don't see light itself, but only its reflection, so is this true of Beauty and of Love. We see only the expressed reflection, manifested forms, of these eternal characters, not their actual being. This is because light, beauty, Love, are not physical, but spiritual in origin; they cannot be seen directly and can only be known by becoming one with their creative expression.

Topics covered: How patterns in relationships are developed; When the student is ready, the teacher appears; My sense of self in any moment is the product of what I'm attending to; The purpose of relationship is revelation; Love favors those who favor love; Understanding the 'Hulk' nature within us; Exercise: 'I am not this weakness'; The ABC's of Relationship Magic: Anger, Blame, and Coercion...

Topics covered: The world is dark, and darkness reveals; The path that doesn't work; What is true and loving always prevails; A crisis brings new understanding; Love, wisdom, and compassion are immortal; What it means to integrate consciousness to become a new man; Strength doesn't seek out strength; Making demands on others; Thinking is not the actual experience; Awareness is the key to integ...

When we recall the turning points in our lives, the times where we had no choice but to go through those wrenching self-changes that come with personal crisis, it shouldn't be hard to remember how sure we were that these same trials heralded our doom. But behind each of these seeming impossible moments stands an unseen (at the time) purpose: to bring us to a certain realization or experience o...

Resistance recreates and then reinstates whatever it opposes, including the sleeping level of self that tries, in vain, to escape the pain of the opposing forces that created it.