The fear of -- and unconscious resistance to seeing the depth and breadth of one's own weakness -- is not the same as realizing one's actual state of (spiritual) helplessness in that same moment.

If I ever needed higher help, I really need it now. When I came home yesterday from work I found that my wife had moved out and emptied the house. She and the children left without leaving a note or even letting me know where they are. This has been the worst year of my life, with money and children problems. Please help me. I am going crazy because I know I always did the right thing while we...

Whatever I endeavor to do spiritually, I find I have to almost fight with myself. I have always been a person of prayer and now am trying to look at self-love vs. self-hate and loathing. How do you pray without the stupid part of you screaming at you to shut up? These absurd thoughts while praying are so disturbing because I feel like I am losing touch with the Divine. Lately I have tried to j...

I am a minister and find your writing very true and helpful. The "toxic" person you speak of is truly damaging to healthy minds and bodies. This is my idea of one of the manifestations of "evil." I have tried to deal with this all my life with an older brother who is like a storm cloud on a beautiful day. He is so blasted negative! He comes around and sows doubt, despair, and hopelessness. He...

My son is born again and he says anyone that isn't born again will not go to heaven. How can this be? I was baptized a Christian in an Episcopalian church. What about Catholics? He drives me nuts with his know-it-all attitude on the Bible. I have a gay brother and he is the most wonderful person in the world and he is also Christian as he was also baptized and believes in God. "Born agains" ca...

Self-awakening, and the freedom from fear that attends it, begins with seeing through what is not real, just as freedom from the terror of being in a nightmare begins with discovering that you have been asleep and having a bad dream.

Spiritual wisdom is our greatest wealth and, as we realize the truth of this -- so that true self-knowledge becomes our single greatest wish in life -- each moment of every one of our relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of ourselves.

Hoping that if you can just keep moving -- rush from one place to another -- so that when you arrive "there" your pain and anxiety will finally be left behind you -- is like believing it's possible to kill a swarm of stinging thoughts by spraying yourself with insecticide!...

The fear of being misjudged belongs to a mechanical part of you that doesn't understand anything, let alone the fear it has of its own tendency to instantly turn dark and defensive should anyone dare question its nearly perfect understanding.

Anything that tries to change, or otherwise interfere with some revelation of what is true about your self can neither be illuminated, nor transformed by that revelation. That condition, as well as the level of self that creates and sustains it... is darkness itself.

None are less likely to lend an encouraging word, a helping hand, or to offer a supporting smile than those who feel sure the whole world, and everyone in it, runs in their debt... and therefore aren't entitled to any more consideration than is convenient to give.

When, and only as you come to love all that is True -- its Will, its Way, and its Works -- more than you love what you now call your own life... does Truth give you its Life. Then your life becomes its everlasting Work, even after death.