Guy's Letters

Whatever I endeavor to do spiritually, I find I have to almost fight with myself. I have always been a person of prayer and now am trying to look at self-love vs. self-hate and loathing. How do you pray without the stupid part of you screaming at you to shut up? These absurd thoughts while praying are so disturbing because I feel like I am losing touch with the Divine. Lately I have tried to j...

How can I turn my dream of a higher life into reality? What is the right action for me to take?...

I am a minister and find your writing very true and helpful. The "toxic" person you speak of is truly damaging to healthy minds and bodies. This is my idea of one of the manifestations of "evil." I have tried to deal with this all my life with an older brother who is like a storm cloud on a beautiful day. He is so blasted negative! He comes around and sows doubt, despair, and hopelessness. He...

I was wondering if you could share with us how you got started in creating the Life of Learning Foundation? I have thought about starting something similar, and would appreciate your advice.

I had a dream in which an angel came to me and said that: "You will get whatever you want in your life from this world and in this world."...

My son is born again and he says anyone that isn't born again will not go to heaven. How can this be? I was baptized a Christian in an Episcopalian church. What about Catholics? He drives me nuts with his know-it-all attitude on the Bible. I have a gay brother and he is the most wonderful person in the world and he is also Christian as he was also baptized and believes in God. "Born agains" ca...

Finally after 47 years I understand and feel the desire to understand the difference between the true self and the false self, and to clean up my life and my mind. When my mind starts to wander (which is almost all the time), I practice bringing myself back to the present moment. I am committed and really want to do this. However, I am feeling quite anxious and lost each day. A lot of uncomfor...

My son and his wife are going through the rocky first stages of divorce, which of course is very painful. I haven't had any contact with her for a few months. My daughter tells me they could use some help with money for some of my grandkids' needs. Do you feel under the circumstances that I should offer to help, or should I just wait until things are more settled?...

I am aware of the need, value of, and willingness to say to a negative disturbance: "You do not have my consent." I know that withdrawing my consent from being conflicted can dramatically shift my experience of the moment... but it also does not necessarily resolve the source of disturbance I have unknowingly created. How do I discern when additional options might be more appropriate or fruitful?...

I have been as faithful in this journey as I possibly can for well over twelve years and I can't understand why I can't break through. Day after day the fight goes on... I suffer the battle, yet still can't break through. I am really at my wits end. I am so done with this nature that is always stalking me, hounding me, and won't leave me alone!...

I've heard this maxim again and again: that you'll repeat an experience until you no longer need it or resist it. Yet I know of more than one person who left a boss, spouse, or friend because they were fed up with the relationship. None of them claim they grew in wisdom or grace or some other form of enlightenment. They claim the only thing that changed was that they woke up to the fact they w...

I recently went through two life changes -- my cat died and my boyfriend broke up with me in the space of a few days. I had experienced major depression prior to this, but when these unfortunate events happened, I suffered so greatly that it transcended into a spiritual awakening. Reading your books and listening to your podcasts has shifted my entire perspective of my self/suffering, and over...