There is a hidden part of you that knows, without thinking about it, how to always be perfectly relaxed, carefree, and in command. This higher intellectual and emotional intelligence is to your present thoughts and feelings as is the mighty oak to its own spreading branches. Once you come into contact with its perfect strength and power, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. Great mas...
Topics covered: Spiritual ideas are worse than useless, unless you apply them in the laboratory of your everyday experience. You cannot fail, if you work; The problem with relying on a bucket-list to make you happy is that the bucket has no bottom; What we see now is only what is in the foreground, so that our experience is only what our attention is on in the foreground. But there could not be a foreground without a background...
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Do you ever feel like something is holding you back from saying what you want, doing what you want -- from just being yourself? Are you tired of feeling as though your highest aspirations have been tucked away into a little box, when you know that your heart and mind are meant to soar? If so, then you're right where you need to be to break free of everything that's holding you back...
There is a direct and proportionate relationship between the degree of inconsolable pain that we have and a deep-seated misunderstanding of our real purpose for being alive.
The "healing" we need, the sense of wholeness for which we search, has nothing to do with adding anything to ourselves. This needed healing comes from recognizing that the pain we have -- along with the suffering inherent in being negative over this pain -- is born out of participating in a series of illusions that have been handed down from generation to generation!...
There is no such thing as independence without responsibility. And there is no such thing as responsibility that doesn't have a cost. People today want their freedom for nothing: "I don't want to work for what I have. You owe it to me." Such is the condition and the downward trend of physical existence. Even spiritually, people want to go somewhere and get tapped on the head with a peacock fea...
No negative reaction has the power to release you from what it blames for your pain in that moment...
Could you give some insight into loneliness and how to abolish it? At times it seems to me that the more I realize about the awesome nature of spiritual love, the more loneliness I feel in my current human relationships. I long to share my discoveries with others, but who do I turn to? Sometimes I feel a deep loneliness in my heart. I know I have many tools to be happy, and the most important...
Here are just ten small places in our lives where we are trying to do the impossible -- struggling to do what cannot (and need not) be done -- and where, because of our misunderstanding, we unknowingly hurt ourselves.
The great circle of life is imbued with a unique kind of "gravity" where all that lives is drawn to join itself to a larger body of life.
There is a Higher World and this peaceable kingdom dwells within you. Allow your heart to remind you what the mind so easily forgets: There is a Peace. There is a Shelter. There is a timeless place in each of us that no darkness can shatter or dispel. Make it your one intention to spend your time there. Prefer its ever-present company to that of any promise of peace to come, and watch how yo...