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Below you'll find Key Lessons from Guy's most recent talks. At every regular meeting at Guy's Foundation in southern Oregon, there's a special board in front of the class where the Key Lesson for that meeting is written out for everyone to consider before, during, and after the talk.

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Date   Key Lesson
 
03/10/2010  

There are times when there’s more to be gained from losing a fight, than there is in winning it. Show me someone who only enters into battles he’s sure can be won, and I will show you that person who has all but forsaken the possibility of ever knowing his own soul.

03/07/2010  

The suffering inherent in negative states is the dark creation of a level of self that believes its conflict with life can be reconciled through resistance.

03/05/2010  

Stormy thoughts and feelings can no more overcome your quiet awareness of them than do raindrops have the power to wash away the sky through which they pour.

      

03/03/2010  

It is sheer fantasy to think that your “tomorrow” can be any different – better or brighter than today – as long as all you do is fantasize about it. Real self-change requires the conscious sacrifice of the self whose hopes lie in things dreamed.

02/28/2010  

Until we learn to make peace with our own sense of emptiness, we will never know the true nature of fulfillment.

02/26/2010  

With regards to suffering, our pain hurts a little less whenever we can remember this strange (but true) spiritual fact: many of God's greatest gifts seem, at first, unbearable to receive.

      

02/24/2010  

Being fully present to oneself is freedom from the tyranny of the past and fear of the future.

02/21/2010  

It is a fool and his pride that relishes in any perfection that “proves” its value by punishing him for his imperfections.

02/19/2010  

The only truly worthwhile "accomplishment" -- the one action that stands the test of passing time -- is the interior work we do that allows God to accomplish His task in our soul.

      

02/18/2010  

The vast majority of people miss out on most of their lives in their ceaseless rush not to miss out on what they’ve imagined life has to offer...once they become who they’ve imagined they should be.

02/14/2010  

Here’s the real spiritual reason you should do only one thing at a time – whether putting on a pair of socks, picking up a pencil, or pouring yourself a cup of tea: The only way it's possible to do more than one thing at a time is to have surrendered your attention to a divided nature that believes just getting things done is the same as doing things well.

02/12/2010  

The seeds of what will be are planted in the here and now, a fact of life that guarantees one thing: unless we do the inner work to be aware of ourselves in the present moment... yesterday will be our tomorrow.

             

02/10/2010  

Blame is the dark effect of denial, of refusing to recognize that when it comes to anyone or anything that sets you off...seer and the seen are one and the same.

      

02/07/2010  

Arrogance, fear, in fact all dark negative states only rule and stain our lives as they do because of how distanced we’ve become from the immense and divine mystery of our own True Nature.

02/05/2010  

Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.

      

02/03/2010  

Preparation, hard work, is part of perfecting whatever you’ve imagined you want to attain in this world. But there is a world beyond anything we can imagine; (it is) an intelligent presence, a “place” of powers and principles whose self-obliterating touch can no more be prepared for than can a mountain pine prepare for a lighting bolt...or a newly opened spring flower its first taste of the morning sun.

01/31/2010  

The presence of the Master is useless without one's awareness of the same.

      

01/29/2010  

Excellence, wherever... and within whomever you may find it, is always a result of effort... never by accident.

             

01/27/2010  

All negative emotions, but especially anger, are the offspring of one dark state...a frustrated desire that would rather set fire to the object, person, or condition seen as being at fault, than turn around and see itself for what it is in reality: the unseen source of its own suffering.

01/24/2010  

It’s widely believed that psychological pain is a natural response to encountering an unwanted moment, but the true –and secret – source of this pain is an unseen conflict inherent in our present level of consciousness itself; the truth is that the “self” that suffers this pain is revealed by unwanted conditions – not created by them.

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