Awareness of the moment is our consciousness of it. So, the more aware we can be of the whole of our consciousness in any moment, the less there is for us to think about -- let alone try to do, because awareness cannot act against itself. Why? Because the light of awareness isn't divided into what it is aware of, and what it knows about it...

There is a Love that transcends every experience that a human being can have of the sensation or the emotion that we call "love." It isn't the love we have for our family. It isn't the love we have for nature. It isn't even the love that we feel when we're thinking about a truth and we feel uplifted by it. It is a Love of a completely different order.

No unwanted experience of life will ever be “over” for us until we’re inwardly awake enough... to get over wishing that it was.

Several times each week, at a minimum, I receive a certain type of email... whose similar question or concern comes from people all over this globe, but whose "heart" is one and the same for all people in all places: Why is this world so cruel; why is so much abuse sustained by those helpless to resist; why do these things happen as they do? Here are some thoughts: This world is governed, at...

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)?...

What causes disputes between human beings? What is this business of "what I believe" vs. "what you believe"? Can we see that you cannot separate what you believe in from what you want? When I say, "I believe in this," and "I believe that you should be like that," what I'm really saying is that I insist you be what I believe you should be, because if you don't, we have war...

Whenever some dark storm appears in us, we must awaken to ourselves and bring ourselves back into the Now.

Being in conscious relationship with what is Holy in life is only as possible as we are willing to see, and to be, accordingly, the whole of who and what we are in each moment...