The next time you run into some familiar blockage or begin to feel unsuited to face some new and difficult personal challenge, don't do what you've always done before. Don't try to think your way around it. You no longer want a way around your troubles because what goes around, comes around! What you want is to grow beyond the level of that disturbance. And to do that, you must not act from it.

Have you ever looked down at a sidewalk or parking lot and marveled at a single blade of grass that had somehow found the will and the way to break through the pavement and out into the fresh air and sunlight? When we think of a titanic struggle, we don't usually think of a little seed of grass buried in the darkness and fighting to get out in the light. And yet, even though we may...

Topics covered: Everything you need to know is shown to you each moment you are in, and it can’t be separated from the consciousness that is revealing it; We are on this planet because we have business to do in both this world and the higher world; Before it's possible for a human being to be themselves, they're going to have to discover what they actually are...

Topics covered: Love does not appear in a time to come after you get what you want. The Love that we cannot give ourselves is always acting on all of creation; We long to give ourselves to something greater than ourselves, and the longing is placed there within us by what is greater; People are afraid to walk away from things that they think they need to produce for themselves, even though attachment to those very things is the cause of...

Topics covered: What if there really is only one answer to every painful question you have ever had about life?; Rumi said, "The antidote is in the venom." Sometimes alongside a poisonous plant in nature is another plant that is the remedy to the poison; Following right on the tail of any disturbing moment are questions about what the disturbance means and how to resolve it...

Topics covered: Spiritual ideas exists to point to the possibility of a permanent connection, a bridge, that can be established between Heaven and Earth; The goodness of any creature cannot be separated from what it serves; Light becomes matter as it makes its way down through the ray of creation. Dense matter returning to light is what rebirth is...