Discover the profound truth about emptiness and inner peace—one that may surprise you. The greatest obstacle to the peace of heaven isn’t the world, your past, or your future—it’s what you have yet to understand about yourself. In this eye-opening exploration, we uncover a deep resistance within us, the fear of losing our familiar struggles, and the rarest form of self-knowledge: realizing that we don’t truly want to know the truth of ourselves...

Emptiness born of wholeness is the vessel of holiness.

The better we understand the unique power of being "passive"- and how it serves as the secret consort of all things active - the more we grow in the faith we need to be wisely passive toward whatever fears remain in us about letting go of our false self. This is why we should take time each day -- as often as possible -- to quietly return to the living Light that dwells in the...

Many times because I feel empty, I wonder if I'm broken beyond repair. It seems the more I intend to become aware of the self, the worse I feel or can't seem to apply in the moment what I know is right and true. Sometimes its like the closer to God I want to be, I begin thinking "you're only doing this to get what you want, not what Life wants." (From student correspondence)...

Part 1 It isn't the "emptiness" of life that we reject; what we resist in such moments is what we have filled that emptiness with. Part 2 In order for something to "appear" it must have an empty space into which it can appear; and, for something to "disappear," it must have an empty space into which to vanish. This means that emptiness is neither empty nor full.

Classroom Talk: 1/26/2020 - Never run from what feels like any empty moment. If you will wait in it, watch it unfold, you'll soon see it reveal its secret fullness... much in the same way as the dark of a new moon becomes, in time, a moon full of light as it catches and reflects the light of the sun.

Guy explains the difference between trying to empty yourself of all disturbances versus being emptied of the 'you' that is disturbed when you are present to all that moves through you.

Featured Study Group Topic for the Week of May 5, 2014. In many ways, the true blessings of life often come disguised as the worst moments... but those who will patiently bear the presence of that emptiness -- of what seems a loss, or painful limitation of some kind -- will soon see its temporary mask fall away, and witness there -- in its place -- the appearance of an impossibly kind and lovi...

The longing for light in the deep of a midwinter's day is borne as much by its remembrance... than can be caused by a mere absence of the sun. So it is with longing for the Divine... where one waits in the dark of an emptiness whose very depths prove the presence of an immeasurable height... forgotten for now, and yet... forever attained.

It is the nature of resistance to reject any form of stillness, because all it can 'see' in it... is the unwanted reflection of its own negative face.

Ultimately, most of us live in some kind of conflict with life, suffering through it, because we grasp after powers and possessions we’ve imagined as being fixed, as substantial; and, accordingly...that if we could just make these things our own then we—our life—would be made equally real and substantial; our pain would be replaced by pleasure...

Ignorance of our own present nature is a three-fold source of sorrow: It is a field of futile actions into which the seeds of frustration are sown that give rise to a recurring crop of negative states.