What do I tell my children when they ask me about the predictions of the year 2012? They are feeling the doom and gloom of it all. I really don't know what to think about it all. (From student correspondence)...
There can be no starting place in our lives any truer than what our own awareness of the present moment permits. This friendly fact tells us that our life direction, our actual destiny, is determined by the level of our awareness that attends the full range of each step we take. The next two examples prove this insight beyond the calling of any logic. No one consciously takes a step in haste...
I feel conflicted about being gay. My internal desires put me at risk with destructive behaviors, including porn and sex with random partners. I get a pain in my heart when I think about it too often. Or is that the truth revealing itself (what you resist persists)?...
I have so many thoughts and ideas about what lies ahead, spiritually speaking, and whether or not I will achieve what I imagine for myself. Do you have any suggestions that might help me sort through all of these questions I have about myself?...
You've written that: "No one ever falls into a dark psychological hole that he didn't help dig!" I see what you're trying to say, but I think that statement is rather offensive to survivors of child abuse, violence, etc. (From student correspondence)...
The real underlying limitation in our relationships is rooted in how we look at and think about others who are in our life.
It's staggering when you stop and think about it... ...the number of individuals who were born into this world destined for greatness, but whose lives were hijacked and eventually devastated by chronic procrastination. If only they'd been given a few simple, yet enormously profound insights about overcoming procrastination, their possibilities could've...
The awareness of our living relationship with the present moment -- our willingness to consciously practice its presence -- empowers us to know what's best for us without having to think about it.
We have the capacity to stop making ourselves powerless by waking up to having put ourselves where our powers are stolen from us.
In this life, we have one of two choices when it comes to painful events, past or present. We can either go on hating and fearing what we think life has done to us (or others), and let these negative reactions create our experience for us... or we can learn to use these same dark reactions to free ourselves from them. But just wanting to learn the truth isn't enough...