Guy's Classroom Talks

Classroom Talk: 11/20/2024 - Whenever we kneel to the temptation of some consoling indulgence, or struggle to acquire a power to protect us from a fear...we yield to, and serve the pleasure of a darkened desire that has promised, once again, to save us from (our) pain.

Classroom Talk: 11/17/2024 - Real self-change begins with seeing that Real Life is change itself.

Classroom Talk: 11/13/2024 - How desire always imagines a solution to whatever our painful problem may be, often seeming to arrive at what feels like the perfect answer. But, desire itself is imperfect, because it is the incomplete work of an incomplete nature... trying to perfect itself as it imagines it must in order to be free. And yet, as paradoxical as it may seem, it is only through our awareness of imperfection that the light of the Divine reveals...

Classroom Talk: 11/10/2024 - He alone is self-realized, of whom it may be said: for him, it is enough to be just what he is, as he is; nothing more or less is either needed, or required.

Classroom Talk: 11/06/2024 - The growth of our soul rarely unfolds in a light that we recognize as such. Many times darkness is the medium, sorrow the seed, and the subsequent humility conceived in these trials...is the divine garden in which flowers our soul.

Classroom Talk: 11/03/2024 - Persistence – without our awareness of the parts of us that steadily insist there’s no further we can go – is a recipe for frustration; this painful sense of self slowly morphs from simple despair into an unholy cynicism that, in turn, serves to confirm what we see as our own unwanted, but unavoidable conclusion: we’ve no other choice but to give up our wish to transcend whatever limitation we’d been called to outgrow.

Classroom Talk: 10/30/2024 - The fear of what may lie just ahead does not exist without the unconscious parts of us clinging - painfully - to what no longer serves the purpose for which it was originally created.

Classroom Talk: 10/27/2024 - Our first action - regardless of circumstance - must be to give our complete attention to all we are being given to see, and to be...accordingly. In this way, we not only come to discover there's a Divine order at work in our life but - even as we learn how to comply with it - we realize ourselves as part of its fearless perfection.

Classroom Talk: 10/23/2024 - No moment is painful in and of itself; any conflict, or suffering ascribed to it is a dark creation of our own unconscious, negative assessment of it.

Classroom Talk: 10/20/2024 - United we see, and are free; divided we struggle...and fall.

Classroom Talk: 10/16/2024 - In time, with enough struggle and effort, we can make of ourselves a momentary ruler of whatever kingdom we set out to create; but only when - and as - we learn what it means to rule ourselves do we lose nothing when that kingdom fades away...as must all creations in time.

Classroom Talk: 10/13/2024 - The first place to look any time you feel a sudden stab of pain is to see that not only is the sting of this moment a creation of your own hand, but also to see how - in that very same moment - you're being handed the reasons why you have no choice but to struggle with, and suffer over what amounts to a self-inflicted wound.