Topics covered: Our consciousness is our circumstance... a spiritual fact that we can't hear enough and can't experience enough; Something within us is the first to judge us right after that very same nature does something harmful; Your mind can't wait to place your attention on something you don't want. If your attention doesn't belong to you, then you will experience exactly what you don't want.

Our attention is precious. Our attention may be the most important thing that we own, and almost none of us own any of our own attention. Anybody can take it. A phone call can take it. The news can take it. Look in the mirror and it can be stolen. I'm looking in the mirror and I don't look anything like I'm supposed to look, and if I look in the mirror and I don't see what I like, where does my attention go?

Student Talks: 5/10/2024 - Key Lesson: Real Love can never betray you, for whomever starts with and then endeavors through what Love asks of them will come to know this greatest of truths that sets one free: Love's end point begins - and has always abided - within you.

Student Talks: 11/17/2023 - Key Lesson: Anytime we struggle in the dark of ourselves -- trying to change our nature -- our efforts are misdirected; our real work is to learn to see by the light that dwells in that darkness, and to know the truth of ourselves, as (it is) revealed.

Classroom Talk: 1/11/2023 - Just being fully present to yourself negates 95% of your missteps in life; the other 5% of the time, when you have to pick yourself up off the ground, serves to remind you of how important it is to always be watchful of "where" you are, and "who" is talking to you as you walk through life.

Question: "Two years ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I'm doing better now but how can I let go of the fear of waiting for the other shoe to drop?" Listen to Guy's answer as he explains why waiting in the middle of any fearful reaction is the only place to catch a glimpse of a higher message.

Classroom Talk: 2/27/2019 - Until we learn to see - and accept each moment as being perfect in its native appearance - regardless how unwanted it seems at first - we will never know the incorruptible peace and contentment that comes with knowing - and agreeing to embrace - the Truth that sets us free.

A great secret is that we can never be disappointed when we are truly waiting. In that kind of open expectancy, in which we drop all of our demands that life turn the way we want, there is a natural fulfillment. We are the most unhappy with our lives, the most negative, when we are the most full of ourselves. There is no open expectancy in a demanding negative state; there is only blame, regre...

Classroom Talk: 11/26/2004 - Feeling sorry for yourself is like slipping off a boat at sea and, just as you're falling into the waters, grabbing the anchor to take with you so as to have something you can cling to in your time of trouble!

When we know we can't put out a fire by feeding it more wood, then why don't we see the futility of trying to calm a mind enflamed by its own thinking... by adding more thoughts?

Stormy thoughts and feelings can no more overcome your quiet awareness of them than do raindrops have the power to wash away the sky through which they pour.

The true source of abundance is the silent mind, for within its fertile quietude rests all potential, all power, and all promise.