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: You must learn to trust the love you have for Truth, as opposed to trusting the self that loves itself; Just because you can't yet do what you love, does not mean that love is not real; There is an intelligence that governs and sustains every creature that lives... at every level; How do we know that other people are wrong? How do we know that the moment should not be the way that it is? Because we live with an unseen knower...
Topics covered: There is an interior sanctuary that awaits human beings if they will only follow the breadcrumbs of truth that lead them there; There is nothing within thought that can satisfy the soul that hungers for what is true. What we really hunger for already exists; How often have we filled ourselves with things outside of ourselves -- including images produced by our own mind -- that turn out to be futile?
Topics covered: When you see the truth of something, there is no judgment or negativity in it. Real knowledge might have sorrow in it, but never anger or violence; Every time that you identify with a thought, you are actually praying for the experience that you don't want; You could not have so many things that you don't want without comparison; The only thing that you suffer over psychologically is what you know...
Topics covered: Part of the purpose of a true school is to continually bring in front of your mind that which it does not want to encounter; We are convinced that we have to do something in order to free ourselves from negative states. The temptation to do something is suggested by the level of the negative state; Nothing can be healed in you until it is revealed in you; Something in us does not want a wrong relationship to change out of fear that...
Topics covered: Presently our lives are much more about the avoidance of life rather than the fulfillment of its possibilities. That consciousness cultivates pleasures and avoids pain: We avoid running into anything that we don't presently understand: Something inside of us that is more than just the physical body wants to go beyond the physical, to understand more about the whole of life: Spiritual development is voluntary...
Topics covered: People who are addicted to something lie to themselves, listening to something in themselves that justifies their behavior; "An unexamined life is not worth living." (Socrates) The act of true self-observation is constant self-examination. Little by little, you will want to spend more time in a properly contemplative state; Through self-examination we see what it is interiorly that is presently harming us, instead of unconsciously agreeing...
Topics covered: A poet could write for decades about an impression, yet still not come close to the totality of the revelation; You are like the fish in the ocean seeking the water. You are already within what you long for; The more you give your attention to something, the more you discover about yourself through that relationship; The Vine is infinite relative to the branch, and the branch is infinite relative to the fruit.
Topics covered: Every question we ask about how to approach the Divine creates a distance between us and the very thing that we seek; Trying to be like anyone else never produces a change in the consciousness that is seeking to be something; No description of any principle is the same as the principle being described; The power of any principle does not exist apart from the relationship that the principle is a part of...
Topics covered: Every time we have a rude awakening, the realization is quickly covered up with a new dream; There is something in you that lives to make sure that you forget what you need to remember; The problem with our model by which we will achieve endless happiness, is that the model does not stand the test of time; Until you experience for yourself the fact that nothing dies, you will always be afraid of death.
Topics covered: In the midst of unwanted moments, remember that real life is bigger than what you don't want; The mind is in a ceaseless rebellion against the perceived authority -- outside of itself -- that it believes is threatening to take away its freedom; You cannot separate a negative reaction from the consciousness that blames something outside of itself for the negativity; The last thing that occurs to us is that we may not know what we believe we do...
Topics covered: The harder you work, the more profitable you become. And to be "profitable" means "to ascend."; Who do you work for? To know who it is that you work for, look at what you attend to all day long; You cannot separate the idea of "your" achievements from "your" fears; For us presently, resistance is an entirely personal force. And we get used by the resistance because we meet the resistance from the exact same part of us that...
Topics covered: When captured by a negative state, we cannot see ourselves as we are. In those moments, we can only see through the negative state's eyes; There is something present in any moment of revelation, something that is always there, that is more than who you have been; The source of your pain can never deliver you to the end of that pain in the way that it promises; Most people spend their entire lives looking anxiously around the...