What we put first in our lives is what we receive from life. The treasure of our heart both measures and determines our wealth, or our inner poverty. But not everything we love in life loves us back. Not everything we serve serves us as we imagine. Only the Divine, the light of Truth, never fails us... never. There's only one reason why we ever find ourselves confused, depressed, angry with s...

Through our willingness to work deliberately at placing our usual self in "second place," we agree not only to change the way we see our relationships, but we also agree to be changed by the truths our new relationships will inevitably show us about us.

More often than most of us care to tell, we run into unwanted moments that seem to challenge the very fabric of our being. Almost anything can be the proverbial straw that breaks us: a friend's betrayal, loss of health or a loved one, unexpected financial strain. Even a shattered dream can throw us into a dark nightmare. Certainly, no one gets out of his or her bed in the morning thinking, "To...

As paradoxical as it seems, the reason most of us find no lasting peace in life is because our mind is forever trying to find something outside itself in which it can rest. This condition is not unlike the little fish that, unhappy with just swimming around, went in search of water -- its hope being that if it could find what it was looking for then it would also find what was missing from i...

The only way we can be released from any painful sense of false responsibility is to see that it is based in a false belief.

While the desire to be perfect runs through the very fiber of our soul, how to fulfill the longing of this greater Love is a question few find the answer to, and here is why: The path to self-perfection weaves its secret way through the land of imperfection, where only the conscious awareness of where we actually are (in this land) changes forever where we stand. Surrendering our will..

We are meant to become an observer of ourselves, watchful of both the content -- and the intent -- of everything arising from our own mind and heart.

As we learn how to take the higher ground inwardly and begin winning that life for which we are created, we are gradually empowered to prevail over any event and challenge that life presents.

"As above, so below"...doesn't just refer to a relationship in the scale of creation; it also, perhaps more importantly, points to our own yet unrealized possibilities with regard to our relationship to the Creator. Evidence abounds, beginning with this one simple truth...once we can see it as such: We comprehend nothing in this world we are in save by the light -- and wisdom -- of a higher w...

One of the most difficult aspects of true spiritual work is the gradual, but necessary realization of just how divided is one's own consciousness. Yes, 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 largely accidental mix of familiar thoughts and fe...