Part I: No moment in life asks of us anything that it hasn't already given us to successfully respond! Part II: The spiritually blind are those people who see in this life only what either pleases or challenges their conceits.

Spiritually speaking -- as a required agreement essential in facilitating one’s rebirth -- one must learn how to be at peace with (consciously) suffering the presence of a false sense of self that can never know the peace it seeks.

Topics covered: Discussion of the exercise during lunch to wait 3 seconds before eating each bite of food; You can't change your experience of the moment unless there's a change in the energy moving through you; The more present you are, the richer the impressions you take in; The further a person can see, the more they understand; All of this work is to help you see that you're a victim of yo...

Unlike lesser-level creatures that are not conscious of their own nature -- and that cannot choose any other world of experience apart from the one they are drawn to by their own lower nature -- we, as human beings, are unique in creation. We are created to be self-conscious. In spiritual terms this means we may have an awareness of any of the infinite number of qualities that form the charac...

Sadly for those deceived, and dangerous for the spiritually unwary they encounter, many humans have unknowingly abandoned themselves to dark spirits in exchange for the strong sense of self the presence of such negative energies provides as it courses through them. These souls who are taken over don't know their actual state as part of the "pleasure" in their condition is their certainty that...

This is the law: There can not be two firsts in your life, otherwise the first of today becomes the last of tomorrow and, ultimately, what is lost is your chance to develop into a whole, spiritually conscious and sane human being.

Spiritually speaking, the Light of awareness is the universal solvent.

Familiarity looks upon the absence of the known as an 'emptiness' to be avoided at all costs.

Unattended thoughts are thieves; not only do they sneak in and steal your attention in exchange for the thrilling, but fleeting sensations they provide, but then they turn around and sell you 'insurance:' more thoughts promising to protect you from the inevitable sense of loss that always comes with having identified with an illusion.

Topics covered: I feel trapped in my life and want to start over but I have dependents; The exercises I'm working with to quiet my mind seem to just add to the chatter; Can we have relationships without any expectation at all; What are specific ways to get in touch with the Divine within; Is it proper to acknowledge personal stories derived from one's culture, such as historical traumas; Can y...

The first step in harmonious relationships is simple: We need only realize the spiritual truth that we cannot meet someone whom we are not like in some way, even if we don't actively express what we don't like seeing in him or her. The deception is that we're sure we're unlike everyone except for those who match the images we have of ourselves. And so it goes that we live from -- see our lives...

Until the embrace of some spiritual ideal leads to the ordeal of going through what is required to become the embodiment of that truth, real spiritual work remains mostly imagined.