No unwanted experience of life will ever be “over” for us until we’re inwardly awake enough... to get over wishing that it was.
As long we find value in being identified with anything, we remain the captive of an unconscious nature...
Today more people have acquired greater wealth than any time in our history, and yet the facts are clear: there is more stress, fear, and heartache than ever before! A coincidence? Not hardly. Then what are we seeing? Proof that worldly accomplishment is not the same as achieving success of the soul, and that one without the other is empty of meaning -- a lot like taking first place in a...
Part 1 We don't create higher self-understanding, or the enhanced levels of freedom that come with its awakening in us; real self-knowledge grows out of what we don't understand... in a grand mystery comparable to the way in which the sun rises from out of the darkness, illuminating and revealing all that had been unseen only moments before. Part 2 Here is the real reason why so...
It is never the people we are around that cause us negative reactions. These reactions arise out of what we secretly want from people.
It seems that nothing in my life has turned out the way I have prayed that it would. The sadness over my situation is overwhelming, even though I have tried my best to give all my failures over to God. Where do I go from here?...
The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred is about the universal and timeless spiritual principles that lead us to the personal revelation of Divine guidance, and the ultimate realization of our own highest possibilities.
Part 1 Mediocrity is a form of madness, a dream embraced by the masses because it makes just getting by an acceptable -- sometimes applauded -- social art form. What is excellent requires extra effort. To agree to sleep our way through life is to lose everything, because it rules out the possibility of our soul ever being stirred into its awakening. Part 2 If we will only dare give...
98% of our thinking seems active because it's always trying to work out some problem, or plan some pleasure (to get away from a problem). Seen aright, such thinking is really just a string of associated thoughts; they are the passive effect of a mind that never stops bothering itself in its struggle to protect itself from what it has imagined is at risk. But, when we will be present to ourselv...
We all want the comfort of knowing that there are things we can count on, that there is something in this life permanent. Yet, everything seems to slip away from us; people, places, and events all change. And as they go so does our sense of security, leaving us once again seeking something to give us a permanent sense of well-being. There is a cure for this seemingly endless longing...
Every moment is the right moment to start seeing ourselves as we are... regardless of whoever may be our "partner" of the moment. Maybe it's the person in that long line with us, complaining about how slowly things are moving. There's no better time to practice seeing yourself than when some part of you can't wait to "pounce" on the impatience of someone else. How about being ...
There is no brighter gift, no greater potential given to we human beings, than the presence of a timeless Light within us whose power makes all things possible. This ever quiet, always present Light goes before us at all times, as does the illumination of a lamp move ahead of the one who walks by the safety of its beams. One may wonder: if this Light is already within us -- a timeless power...