Our greatest strength isn't our ability to imagine brighter days ahead, but that we are empowered -- in every present moment -- to dismiss any dark thought or feeling that wants to diminish our happiness.
Think about all the finish lines you've managed to cross in your lifetime where you thought you were an uncontested winner. Let's name a few: "They said I was great!" "She said she loved me!" "I made the deal!" "At last I own what I've always wanted!" "The crisis is over at last." "I beat the odds!" "Now I know I'm a good and wise person." Then comes that untimely, unkind, or unexpected...
This is one of those special books that come around only once in a lifetime. Each page of this spiritual classic sparkles with self-empowering insights, encouraging ideas, and the all-but-forgotten Higher Principles that throw open the doors to the riches of your True Self. Just as bridges must be built between cultures and countries, so too must bridges be built to span the distance between...
One day an announcement was posted. It said there would be an open series of marathons and foot races comprised of various distances and degrees of difficulty. All who wished to test themselves against course, clock, and each other, were invited to compete for fabulous gifts and prizes, as well as for national recognition for being the best in their class.
I am going to get married within a few days. I know there can be a lot of conflicts and misunderstandings in married life... which I think is natural and happens in all families. But since I have always been a follower of your teachings until now as a bachelor, I want to know how can I keep following in the right direction in my married life to live a happy life with my wife.
The following five lessons are higher insights rarely discussed among the spiritually uninitiated because of the measurable effect that their strong medicine causes in the soul. But not only do these teachings help summarize the prescription for a free and happy life, they also present the case for why we need such a healing. Welcome these truths into your mind and watch how their refreshing v...
Just as it is not our job to make the light that brings life to all creatures, neither is it our job to make ourselves happy. Our soul responsibility, when it comes to living in happiness, is to consciously provide the right conditions for it to make our heart its home.
The passage of time eats one's hopes for an abiding happiness like water wears down the banks of a stream, whereas True Faith can never be consumed by the passage of time for it is founded in the Timeless.
Part I: Until we can be content wherever we are, we will never get any closer to the Home of Real Happiness. Part II: We do not see life as it is, but as we are; and so when it seems to us as though our life is not enough, not right, or just not happy enough, it isn't because life has singled us out to deny us its fulfillment, but because we have cut ourselves off fr...
To make any fear disappear just remember that it can not exist as it is without you being deceived into lending it your life force. On the other hand, your True Nature is created not only to live without the need for a single fear, but to realize that fearlessness is happiness.
Part I: Until we realize the impossibility of finding permanent happiness in impermanent thoughts and feelings, the only thing that will ever change about our lives are those things that we sit and wish hadn't changed. Part II: Much as the waters of a river run through a valley, helping to turn native fertile earth into tillable soils capable of high productivity, so do invisible streams of s...
Part I: Dare to notice sometime the truth that happiness and hurriedness never run together and then slow down just long enough to ask yourself, "What can I hope to win from life always being in a rush?" Part II: To see the Truth of anything, let alone realize that your eyes are the windows through which God sees the world of your making, you have to come to a stop. You have to simplify ever...