Whenever you come upon a healing idea or a rescuing truth, it is almost always a surprise that you could have missed something that was so obvious for so long. Do you know the feeling? More than anything else, a glimpse of a Timeless Truth is a lot like rounding a bend and suddenly seeing something you know you knew a long, long time ago; like discovering all over again a special place you onc...

Most of the time we are not aware of the fullness of real life because we are too busy trying to fill ourselves with what we think we need to be happy. We are not intended to supply ourselves with a self-created happiness. In fact, our frantic search for happiness perpetuates the nagging feeling of discontent. Instead of looking outside of ourselves for fulfillment in a time to come, we need t...

The present level of mind that we are experiencing on this planet today does not have command of its own attention. The world you see around you is being created by a level of desire that creates the conditions that it needs to flourish. It creates outwardly what it needs to sustain a consistent denial of the divine. The problem is that we think that somehow we were the ones who created this l...

The only thing that we suffer from at any moment is what we have yet to understand about ourselves. We suffer the way we presently do because we live in a small world, and our actions and decisions are based solely on the context of the information available in that world. We think we are always right because we act according to the limited thoughts and feelings that are given to us in this sm...

My wife died three years ago, I live alone, and I and was recently diagnosed with cancer. I think I have come to terms with the prognosis, but for some reason my anxiety and depression get worse every day. I wake each morning with utter dread of the day ahead -- this horrible feeling of having no escape from the awful fear and despair. Sometimes I feel so close to madness; it's as if the false...

Most of the popular spiritual/new age/people giving advice on how to manifest the life of your dreams etc, are telling us that we need to imagine and dream and 'think positive thoughts' to be able to manifest the life we deserve. We are told to construct 'dream boards' and to feel the excitement of our desires as though they have already manifested. Can you help me understand this a little bet...

I have been working with observing myself and have noticed a direct connection between my facial expression and emotional state. The problem is that the negative state that is making the changes in my appearance is so variable because of my thoughts and the need that I have to understand how to awaken my inner soul. Can you give me advise or let me know of any suggestion that you think will he...

The realization that there are parts of us that are against us can hit us with a jolt. But when we see that these wrong parts have actually created the pains that they then falsely promise to free us of, we eagerly seek -- and find -- the real Friend who will bring all pains to an end.

Any time you are sitting at home and a thought comes and says, "What about this? What about them? What's going to happen if this?" you are burdened. You are carrying on your back, in your heart, in your mind, the weight of a set of thoughts and feelings you believe have the right to ride you to where they tell you to go... as if you were saddled by a donkey!

Everything we need to know about "what to do" is always right here with us. But the mind that is always trying to escape the moment that is being revealed believes that it must think of something to do in order to get through the moment. There is no problem in the present moment. There is only a mind that creates a problem because it doesn't understand the moment...

We don't usually think to ourselves that we're asleep and that our entire identity is the moment to moment fabrication of what we are reacting to in that instant. Until there is something that rides the waves of these reactions and sees them crest and fall, we will appear and disappear with every last wave. In watching the waves we will not mistake ourselves for being the waves.

Human beings walk around in a kind of self-made suffering that is the expression of something in us that is afraid of seeing ourselves as we are. We've come to think that avoiding a unwanted fact about ourselves is the same as escaping the effects. Our lives should be a ceaseless realization of where we miss the mark, because that is the only way to transcend the idea that...