What drives us mad isn't the opposing action of life, or the erratic behavior of someone close to us. What literally makes us crazy, schizophrenic, is that our mind is divided; it is a house set against itself in the truest sense of the words. Honest self-observation provides us with overwhelming evidence: Our certainty over some carefully selected action is as fleeting as the moment somethi...

There is only one way that any of us will ever know the real meaning of Christ's life, and that is... to share in his death. This means we must give up what he gave up if we would know, from ourselves, what was gained through his deliberate sacrifice.

The things we put first in our life, our moment-to-moment choices in life, are a direct reflection of what we value most in that moment.

There is one way, and one way only, that any of us will ever know the real meaning behind the life of Christ, and that is... to share in his death. And by this, I do not mean symbolically, or by any other allegory. If our wish is to know the truth behind his seemingly incomprehensible, incomparable act of self-sacrifice -- and the rebirth that crowns this surrender -- there's but one thing to...

GF: Welcome everyone. Let me open our meeting with some thoughts about what is required of us to free ourselves of all the dark and discouraging states that seem to follow us around as we work at trying to realize Real Life. We will discuss some of these truths now, and again at the close of our chat. Most of us are familiar with the idea from Christian scripture that "my Father's kingdom has...

Just as we need to keep an eye on the kinds of friends we keep around us, so must we also remain aware of the circle of "friends" we keep within us.

As human beings we form relationships and then, when the form or dynamic of these relationships change, as they must, we blame these unwanted changes for our loss of peace. Such behavior is like getting mad at the wind that catches our hat and whisks it away. Our sense of lost peace, along with feeling the loss of one's freedom that was tied to it, has never had anything to do with peace with...

GF: Good evening and welcome to our chat for this month of May. First, I will post some special ideas. As you will see, these insights will prove themselves to be critical along the Way to your inner awakening. There are times when it feels as though dark states of discouragement dog us, following us around as if just waiting for us to fall down, never to rise again. On these days our own lac...

One of the most difficult aspects of true inner work is the gradual, but necessary, discovery of just how divided one is within him- or herself. It sounds good to be an inner-adventurer, to "boldly go where no one has gone before"...but in practice, it's another whole story. Our present sense of self is based, almost entirely, on a flimsy interior network of associated thoughts and feelings,...

Today I received, for the 10,000th time, an email asking me if I believe in Jesus Christ...with all of the rest of the usual "trappings" (a good word for such questions, by the way). Here is my response: There is only one way, and one way only that any of us will ever know the real meaning of Christ's life, and that is to share in his death – this means we must give up what he gave up if we wo...

We are at our core a creature of the stars: beings whose original and celestial stuff is not only born of light, but also intended to live unbound.

The true purpose of self-study is to invite something Good into our lives that then provides us with the unshakable goodness we were previously unable to give ourselves.