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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The worst thing about walking through life in your sleep is that being awakened actually feels like something bad just happened to you!

The reason we have two hands is so that one of them may caress life, even as the other lets it go.

Nothing is too great for who you really are . . . any more than the ocean fears the rain-swollen rivers that rush in to fill it.

Part 1
Work is how you start helping yourself…because the only thing hurting you is your present inability to see into and work through what is compromising you.

Part 2
The true (and only) victory is in the “battle” well fought, for only when we willingly engage the adversary do we discover – in each successive encounter – that we are always given what we need to succeed.

Any burden shared isn’t just half the burden – but a burden made lighter for all who agree to carry it; the unthinkable truth is that if everyone agreed to carry just a little more, everyone would carry a little less.

Part 1
The proven way to end ninety-nine percent of those heart-heavy feelings that drag you down each day is to stop thinking about yourself!

Part 2
The only way to realize a life free of painful comparison to others is to boldly embrace yourself as you are... and discover therein that no one else on earth has been gifted with the possibilities you alone are created to know.

The true measure of character is directly connected to our willingness to be fully accountable for what we are in each moment.

While we are often able to hide our pain born of feeling apart from life, it cannot be ignored any more than the right hand can escape the stress the body endures when the left hand suffers a splinter or is pricked by a thorn.

Here's the most important thing to remember whenever you find yourself in a mad rush: what you really want, what you're really after, is a quiet mind... a peaceable state of self reached only by realizing there is no place more empowering for you to be than in the present moment.

Learning to let the whole world pass us by is the only way to discover that the fear of losing some imagined position in life is as imaginary as that position we fear to lose.

Part 1
To know why we feel as we do in any given moment, we need look no farther than what we love…for the mind cannot create anything that drags us down without our willing embrace.

Part 2
As goes your attention, so comes your experience.

Any painful moment past must pass the moment you lose interest in it!

Part 1
The pressure to explain yourself to someone who has not asked is the futile attempt to escape the painful contradiction inherent in trying to prove that a lie you’ve told yourself about yourself is actually true.

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Until our "defeats" in life are seen as being as valuable as our victories, then our moments in the sun must bring with them shadows yet to fall, taking us with them when they do.

The door to the limitless life opens for us only as wide as we are willing to love being made aware of our present limitations.

Giving your consent to live in fear of some moment to come is no different than walking out of the warm sunlight into a dark shadow . . . and then blaming the sun for your sudden chill.

It is we who suffer the darkness of our own doubts -- and needlessly so -- if only we would dare plumb the depths of all that God has prepared for us to see...and be.

The real reason why the “wheels keep coming off” during our ride through life is because God wants to show us our need for a whole new vehicle, one that will be given to us…providing we let go and agree to let it be so.

Once we realize -- no matter what we attempt in life -- the "worst" we can do is learn from that experience, then the whole idea of "failure" fades from view and, in its place, freedom appears.

Only when we leap into what the moment asks of us – being as true as we can do, without concern for outcome -- do we discover this liberating truth: The fears we have -- of somehow being inadequate to the task that lies ahead -- are as imagined as the “self” that gives rise to those same fears.

Every complaint, any negative reaction produced by a moment resisted, secretly serves to glorify an indwelling darkness that wants you to see your life as being incomplete.

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