A lesson learned is a day well-earned.

Topics covered: Anything that I think that I am, I fear that I am not. Fear is built into identification; The purpose of a true spiritual teaching is to develop the soul individually and collectively at the same time. It is not about "you"; We presently live in a spiritual darkness, and the purpose of spiritual work is to bring light into that darkness, but we have to be willing to allow that light to reveal and enact its Will...

Part 1: Whoever chooses Love to be his first and last act never loses anything real, regardless what he may be asked to give up in that same moment. Part 2: The one asleep to himself spends his life pursuing the pleasures he loves, while trying to avoid the pain he fears. This divisive level of love is inseparable from suffering, and remains so until... one realizes that real Love has no 'othe...

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that is never satisfied.

Topics covered: We live in a world that increasingly passes the buck; As thought becomes unable to deal with its problems, it turns to physical relief; No one else is responsible for your experience of the moment; Your work is to bring you to a place where you have no idea what is going on; The purpose of a sun is to illuminate the space into which it has been thrust -- in scale, this is a hum...

Although self-study may include reading certain inner life books or listening to lectures on self-transformation, these materials, as encouraging and informative as they may be, are really only preparational tools; they have their place. After all, if you were going to climb a mountain, you would want expert advice on the proper equipment to use, and you would want instruction from others who...

If -- by the light of remembering and considering what is Timeless, Holy, and True -- my heart is warmed and gradually inflamed, then within that vessel there must already be a Divine tinder -- some kind of a combustible celestial kindling -- without which no such flame could be created, let alone cast itself out into the darkness of my soul so as to make itself known.

In the end, all true knowledge -- including the Timeless gifts it grants -- is self-knowledge; which means whatever the nature of our present set of limitations -- physically, mentally, emotionally, and ultimately, spiritually -- it exists only as it does because of what we have yet to learn about ourselves.

The clearer it becomes that it's impossible to "get ahead" of yourself -- physically, psychologically, spiritually -- the more at peace you are with whatever comes your way... because you're starting to realize now that who you are in the moment is the seed of all your moments to come.

As your awareness of the natural laws that currently govern your actions increases, so does your ability to make choices based on higher knowledge instead of being blindly guided by ignorance. Spiritually speaking, this is the beginning of the development of true free will.

I receive many letters that either ask me, or direct me to change my perspective on something that I've sent out into the world either through a book, an audio program, or through the web. These notes deal mostly with that person's spiritual or religious view that has been "rubbed" in the wrong way by what I have stated as being true. For example, here's the latest of these notes: "The 'god'...

I experience fear on many levels, and in waves that seem to come and go. My rational self feels that everything will be OK and that I am unnecessarily tormenting myself over nothing. I can go from heaven and then back to hell in an instant. There are two men in me: Crazy Man and Spiritual Man. Crazy Man was born, lives crazily... and dies. Spiritual Man was born, lives spiritually... and dies.