Patience is power because it compassionately rules over whatever parts of us are moved to act against ourselves... or others.

Topics covered: How should we deal with internal storms and nagging thoughts; I have to listen to these talks many times and am worried that I'm slow; My religious conditioning causes me to have disturbing dreams; Why do I keep choosing work situations that cause me so much stress; I'm conflicted over my relationship with my mother; I feel the presence of loved ones who have passed away; I rea...

I receive many questions concerning how to achieve a proper balance between physical and spiritual longings; how much time should be spent working on one's higher, interior life, versus running around and doing what life demands as a result of being in this world. For those of you who want to learn a little more from a different perspective on this question, here are some thoughts to ponder.

We are spiritually free when we no longer want anything to do with sitting in judgment of others, regardless of their perceived transgression.

In this answer to a viewer's question, Guy talks about the true meaning and purpose of "religion," which is to "reconnect" with a higher level of ourselves that already exists, waiting to be discovered.

The wise know the following spiritual truth for the friend that it is, and cannot be tempted into forgetting it. Welcome it, keep it by your side at all times, and call upon its understanding in times of need: There are parts of us that have no interest in reading or contemplating higher ideas, listening to truth talks, praying, or in simply being quiet enough to observe the self as it runs...

Have you ever looked down at a sidewalk or parking lot and marveled at a single blade of grass that had somehow found the will and the way to break through the pavement and out into the fresh air and sunlight? When we think of a titanic struggle, we don't usually think of a little seed of grass buried in the darkness and fighting to get out in the light. And yet, even though we may...

We are a peculiar race of beings. On one hand, each of us professes to be concerned with growing and self-developing while, on the other hand, none of us ever wants to be wrong. This is a paralyzing contradiction...

Transcending any limitation in life begins with being willing to realize it consciously.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of August 14, 2017. It's impossible to learn what the Divine would teach us about our own higher possibilities, and resist -- at the same time -- meeting that lower level of consciousness intent on keeping us from realizing them.

Self-observation is how we learn to become inwardly vigilant to our own thoughts and feelings, even as they pass through us. When we can observe ourselves in this new way, our higher nature naturally prevails over any troubling thoughts or feelings that want to drag us down into their lower world.

There will be many, many times in our journey beyond ourselves where to put the truth first means we must see and admit where we haven't been truthful with ourselves.