You’ve no doubt fought and won countless battles in life, yet repeatedly -- seemingly inescapably -- you continue to find yourself at war, not just with others but within yourself, as well. And so... I want to share seven of the most important lessons I’ve learned in my life...

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...

I am usually so busy... it is sad how I rush through everything. I know life was not meant to be this way. I admire the place where you are in your life and that you have found fulfillment.

Whenever we find ourselves running after something -- anything -- to complete us, what is the real nature of this force within us that compels us in this way? We are pushed along in these pursuits by a very subtle, but solid sense of feeling as though we are somehow incomplete.

There is an endless hole in the heart of most of us; a pit that demands our faithful daily service and that causes us, in our compulsion to fill it, to be pitiless towards those who stand in the way of this endless ambition. Most of us will spend our lives as slaves to this psychic abyss, driven in one form or another to satisfy in ourselves what can only be satisfied by our continuing struggl...

In the great turning of creation, involving all of her creatures, is not every need met in a scale of time too great for the mortal eye...

To break out of any prison you must first find a way that works. Here are a dozen new actions that have special powers to show you this needed Way.

When we find ourselves looking for something outside ourselves -- anything -- to complete us, to make us feel whole and happy, what is the nature of this force within us? What kind of power compels us to move heaven and earth to find a way to fulfill ourselves in this way? The answer is surprising! We are driven on by our sense of being incomplete. None of us would feel this compulsion to co...

Is not the whole world, all of creation, in a ceaseless act of awakening? Life itself is never not awakening...

To see how easily our attention is given away to what limits, or otherwise corrupts us creates -- on the spot -- not only the necessity to reclaim it, but each such shock serves to renew and strengthen our intention to never lose (sight of) it again.

The truth is that letting go is very simple and, above all, natural; as natural for you and I as it is for a tree to shed the heavy, sun-ripened fruit that clings to its branches.

In a thousand different ways, we are meant every day to begin to realize that it’s so easy to just run on automatic. Everything just goes on, doesn’t it? It just goes on. Sometimes it’s good. Sometimes it’s bad. But it just goes on. We are meant to understand that as long as we live from...