Guy's Blog

I listened to one of your talks about Anger Management (the one where you talk about how people who annoy you strike a chord in you). I just want to understand this more. I think this understanding will really help me. Imagine a piano sitting with the strings exposed. As it sits there, in a living room, three people walk into that room at different times, all doing different things. Someone d...

One of the most difficult aspects of true spiritual work is the gradual, but necessary realization of just how divided is one's own consciousness. Yes, it sounds good to be an inner-adventurer, to "boldly go where no one has gone before" . . . but in practice, it's another whole story. Our present sense of self is based, almost entirely, on a largely accidental mix of familiar thoughts and fe...

Our resistance to any evil or otherwise corrupt character; regardless of circumstance; proves the presence of an unseen similarity; there can be no recognition of any exterior degraded nature that isn't born of our interior resonation with it. Which means...any sustained negative reaction is actually the unconscious action of that dark nature attempting to hide itself...by seemin...

He seeks answers; that's all he has ever done, or known to seek because he treasured, above all else, the temporary sense of peace they provide - answers that seem to resolve, and so dissolve the constant disturbances that ebb and flow within the ceaselessly changing conditions of his life. It never dawns on him that whatever answers he finds are like footprints in the sand: momentary impress...

When we struggle with an addiction... Such as a painful dependency upon sugar or sugary foods... We must understand what has actually taken place within us, the nature responsible for our unwanted condition. While it's true the body may have become habituated, "dependent" upon sweets of some kind -- a state that will have to be dealt with on its own level -- this physical dependency began with...

Question from a student: What is a good approach with a supervisor who clocks one's production and applies other pressures? Do what is in your power to do, and refuse to do what is not. Neither ticking clock, nor dominating supervisor is in your power to change; they are what they are...(but not what you think). On the other hand, what is in your power is to KNOW the truth of the first statem...

Our true home rests not in some time or place to come; neither does it await in a kingdom impossibly distant from us. Our home, as is true with our Heart of hearts, lies within. No map leads to this Divine door, because nothing that can be followed leads there; rather we pass over this innermost threshold by a transformation in our familiar sense of "I." Slowly we are weaned from our constant...

With one hand He gives, with the other He takes Filling and emptying the soul, Carving out receptivity to His Name With each deft blow of His soul-sculpturing hands. I am never full, nor ever bereft; neither am I, But all is He. I am His form. No other form have I And it is to the shelter of His Name He guides me Regardless of how He shapes me. God wants me to want only Him; To have no place...

The strength of your resistance to any unwanted moment proves the extent to which you have unknowingly agreed to enclose yourself in a pattern of unconscious expectations with people, places, and possessions. This is an unseen agreement whose bittersweet "reward" is that familiar, but false sense of comfort -- born of a thousand unchallenged repetitions -- where your expectations run merrily...

While the desire to be perfect runs through the very fiber of our soul, how to fulfill the longing of this greater Love is a question few find the answer to, and here is why: The path to self-perfection weaves its secret way through the land of imperfection, where only the conscious awareness of where we actually are (in this land) changes forever where we stand. Surrendering our will..

Fear -- any negative state that persists as a power to punish us -- is the inevitable result of believing that we are something that we are not. Once we see the definitive link between the fear, worry, or anger we feel, and the particular false sense of self that doesn't exist without these punishing states, our choice becomes clear: Either we agree to live with these negative states, ever s...

Most of us believe to have the "power of choice" means it is our right to decide what we want to pursue and possess in this world – these choices being one and the same as the path to what we imagine will fulfill us now, or in a time to come. But what difference do these choices make – regardless of what we may pull from the river of passing time when – by Law – everything tha...