My partner of many years recently took his own life. His poor choices had long caused an immense strain (emotionally and financially) on the family, and our children lost all respect for him. I want to move my family forward out of the black place we are in. While I failed my partner by enabling him and being impatient with him, I do not now want to fail my children. I would appreciate any adv...

In the last meeting during his recent talks at Kripalu, Guy told a story about a hero who overcame the beasts that blocked the book of Life by "choosing love"...and then he went on to talk about a missing "spiritual element" in our live that he called "U2." This whole concept made a big impression on and within me. I would really appreciate hearing more on this subject as it somehow makes a sh...

During a recent online chat event I asked you how I can stop getting bad bosses. You told me, "birds of a feather flock together." My boss is a stingy, heartless @#!%*!. I have given employees money out of my own pocket to pay for the bounced check fees that my boss has incurred, along with other ways of trying to protect them from him. I am not stingy and I treat them with kindness and respec...

Topics Covered: Find the Place in This World That's Made Just for You; I feel like a complete failure and wonder if my life serves any purpose; I'm struggling to understand why my life feels so un-lived; What can I do to lessen the pain from a traumatic childhood; How do I deal with the loss of all close family, friends, and community; I feel like I am on a hamster wheel and cannot get off...

Classroom Talk: 7/30/2021 - Our greatest gift -- our highest possibility -- may be summarized as follows: not only are we created to give ourselves to what we love, but we are able to discern the difference between an order of Love that sacrifices itself for the sake of something greater than itself, and a kind of love that lives only to give itself what it imagines will make it great.

Why do so many of your lessons leave me feeling so confused?...

What is more powerful -- the sex energy or my own true nature? My gut feeling is that it is my true nature, the free mind, and this means that I have a choice whether I want sex or not in my life. By exercising this choice, I am the master and sex energy is the tool. I, the master, will decide whether to use this tool or not. The tool does not have any power over me. While this is my understan...

One of our neighbors has done something to their property that is proving to be an immense problem for us and seems very unfair. I want to let go of the circumstance, and yet I feel as though I mustn't just allow this individual to dominate the atmosphere of the very place I call home. I don't really want to fight with his person, but don't know what else to do. How do I let go of my disappoin...

I feel like I'm stuck! I need some kind of new motivation for doing things that I just don't feel like doing, even though I know I need to do them. Where do I look? I find myself constantly justifying putting off what really needs to be done. Parts of me convince me that I'm entitled to procrastinate, yet the end result is always that I suffer over the inevitable consequences! Oftentimes I kno...

I've noticed that the more I hear people complain about their unwanted circumstances in life, the less likely they are to do anything to change them. It makes me wonder if I'm just as ungrateful and unwilling! Many religious and spiritual teachers talk about "tithing" or giving away 10% of your income. Is this something we should all do? What is the reason for doing it? I feel grateful for the...

Student Talks: 12/30/2022 - Key Lesson: How can we ever hope to be at peace with life when -- for the most part -- all we know to live for is the endless struggle to carve out a piece of it for ourselves?

Question: I have been having a bad problem with losing my love and ambition for listening and making music. Music is discipline and I have dedicated most of my life to it, but recently I have seen my ambition for it -from practicing my instrument to enjoyment of listening it - go to zero. I actually played a gig recently and found myself not enjoying what I was doing. Any advice on how to get the love back?