How can we ever hope to help one another if each of us is convinced that the only work we should do is for the benefit of ourselves? Spiritual awakening is about coming to remember that there is a work on this earth that we are all created to share in common: To learn what it means to love one another.
To be the captain of our own spiritual ship we must become aware of the difference between what is the "sea" and what is the "self" that so often feels itself sinking... Otherwise each time we run into a rough stretch of water we will unconsciously identify with the waves and, in our fear of capsizing, we will run aground.
Almost every day I receive a letter, an e-mail, or phone call from an aspirant who wants to know, essentially, the following: "What must I do to succeed spiritually?" Or, in a slight variation on that theme: "What's the right way to do what I must in order to awaken?" There's little doubt as to the sincerity of these questions – but the problem is this: true spirituality is not something that...
In one way or another, all True spiritual teachings allude to a Divine Journey that many are called to make, but that few actually do... because of a great mystery that cannot be solved by the “self ” that sets out on that Journey.
Any real spiritual shock is alchemical; atomic in nature. The energy it releases alters consciousness from the inside-out, changing everything about you... including the way you breathe...
At every possible moment of crossing over into a new and higher level of consciousness, standing at the gate between each spiritual kingdom, there is a faultless, infallible celestial guard. His authority is absolute; it is backed by nothing less than the Balance of All There Is...
When it comes to our spiritual being, every moment serves to either nourish within us the inherent freedom of Real Life, or it acts to negate this grand possibility and keeps us prisoners of our own unconsciousness. And if we had eyes to see into the secret realm of Self that sits behind the determining reality of our existence, we would witness therein that each of our thoughts, either consci...
All creatures in life are created to reach their natural fruition. The Great Life generously provides all of them with everything they need to fulfill their promise. This same abundance holds true for our spiritual awakening as well. Everything we need to succeed is forever raining down upon and within us. The spiritually awakened life is not something that one achieves, like an award for fin...
Spiritual awakening is the realization of one's (own) consciousness becoming aware of itself; where self-integration is the same as transcending the suffering born of the temptation to identify with "one side, or the other" of every passing event. This level of consciousness can't be deceived into seeing any opposite as "good," or -- its other side -- as "evil"... because it knows, without tak...
If we ever hope to know the nature of true spiritual peace, we must do the best we can to meet each moment -- as fully as possible -- from the whole of ourselves, and then witness the results... in silence...