Student Q&A With Guy
You have several opportunities to ask your questions of Guy directly and hear his eye-opening, often surprising answers.
Topics covered: If we are ever going to reach the end of unconscious suffering, then we have to uncover the true interior cause of the suffering; Have you ever noticed that you are grateful when you wake up from a bad dream and realize that it was just a dream?; To live in fear of another person, to have an enemy, or to hate anything in life, is to be asleep in a bad dream...
Topics covered: Intellectual knowledge is not the same as understanding. Do not mistake thinking for being; A sudden sense of disturbance comes with the want of relief from that same disturbance; What we really want relief from are the unseen part of our consciousness that by its very nature has attracted the conditions that it then seeks freedom from; What is true refuses to live with conflict or act from weakness.
Topics covered: The sleeping mind convinces us that something outside of us is to blame for whatever feeling -- "good" or "bad" -- is coursing through us at any given moment; The sleeping mind is always trying to find itself in conditions outside of itself; Resistance nullifies all of the higher qualities and faculties that we have the potential to be in relationship with...
Topics covered: Imitation is fear, and the purpose of life that we learned from the world is imitation; Fear is an invisible prison, but our minds see the prison as being the opposing conditions that we run into when we are looking for freedom; You believe in your captivity because fear always tells you that you can escape; The divided mind lives in constant fear of losing what it believes will make it fearless...
Topics covered: We live under the government of an order of being that makes sure we do not understand that the Divine knows what we need before we know that we need it; We have wishes that we think are our own. But not one wish that we have originated with us; We have the capacity to manifest some of the things that we desire, but the things that we desire never come with the peace and fulfillment...
Topics covered: The cost of freedom is letting go of the idea that there is a "you" that is going to find freedom in a time to come; It is not life that is hard, but there is something in us that has hardened itself against life; Your mind will never be able to take you past the point that it cannot go, but your mind can understand that fact; Every desire has a corresponding identity attached to it...
Topics covered: When you try to escape from a moment, you ensure that you will meet that same kind of moment again and again; Your interior work takes a real turn when you realize you can't avoid yourself; The acronym "TOBADCEOM" from the doctor story stands for "Taken Over By A Different Cause Every Other Moment"; Every moment of your life your mind is given over to whatever it falls on in that moment.
Topics covered: There is nothing in the universe that can stop you from learning the truth of yourself; Every moment of our existence is the expression of, and the possibility of completing "our" karma. There is no such thing as bad karma; Our consciousness sows the seeds of its own suffering, and then sets out to resolve the very conditions that it sets into motion...
Topics covered: The divided state of our consciousness is always struggling in some form of contradiction; Desire itself is a formulation of the opposites; The original definition of the word "Mammon" pertained to an endless desire for possessions; The wreckage of desire are the psychological strings that come attached to any desire that we are not aware of; A negative reaction knows exactly what is the cause of...
Topics covered: The last thing your mind wants is peace. The only thing that keeps you from understanding the real peace of Heaven is what you do not yet understand about yourself; The peace of Heaven is a "time and place" without "you" in it. It is not a time and place "you" are going to reach and be applauded when you get there; What is the most rare form of self-knowledge?
Topics covered: Everything that a human being imagines as being liberation is imagination. The truth cannot be captured in thought; You can only understand what is in you and what you have seen as part of yourself; The mind is in a constant struggle to reorganize the world it sees into what it imagines; You can't struggle to regain balance unless something in you believes it has been thrown off balance.
Topics covered: How much time and effort has humanity spent trying to figure out how to be free of fear and suffering? How is humanity doing?; The source of psychological pain will never be resolved through belief in a time to come. Instead, genuine resolution is found by seeing through the whole idea that it is necessary to have a belief.