The way in which we pursue what we are drawn to in life begins with some form of identification. When we are inspired to investigate something, whatever it may be, the process begins with our minds constructing an image of the thing that it longs to explore. And in order to continue the exploration, the mind must keep that image in front of itself, and so it literally becomes identified and at...

There is a spiritual idea that appears in the New Testament which states, "Ask and ye shall receive. Knock and the door will be opened to you." It is our mistaken belief this idea is saying that all of our desires will be fulfilled simply by asking God, and that our "order" should be filled to our exact specifications as quickly as possible. Most of us have to learn the hard way about what it...

Why do we like hearing about the Celestial? Why are we naturally attracted to such things? It's because we as human beings have the potential to have a direct relationship with that Life. It is seeded in the human heart to long for something higher. The thought of one man is the thought of all men. The beauty pictured by one woman is the beauty pictured by all women. Most of the time we beli...

What would you think of a mother or father who starts yelling at their 5 year-old son because he didn't prepare dinner? It would be a terrible thing. Intuitively we would see such an action as being out of order. It's actually against the Cosmic Law. In the same way, life never asks a human being to be something he or she can't be. It's against the Law. Life at once asks and gives us wha...