Growth and Protection is the name of a chapter in the must-read book by Dr. Bruce Lipton, The Biology of Belief. He states in his book that growth and protection mechanisms are the fundamental behaviors required for an organism (or a society) to survive. And to illustrate briefly what he means by growth and protection, [...]
Divine Love is one of those topics that people can talk about and theorize about all day
The whole world is hopelessly attached (addicted) to people, things, ideas, opinions, the opinions of others, places, their job, etc. It’s really hard when you first start trying to break some of those addictions and make yourself free. You get a lot of flack from your friends and relatives who see your freedom as taking [...]
February 24, 2009 – 9:59 am
There are detours on the spiritual path. When someone is first drawn to the spiritual path, there is, no doubt, a burning love for God. And to the degree that this love consumes consciousness determines the progress on the path.
February 22, 2009 – 12:13 am
David Hawkins, writes in his book, Discovery of the Presence of God — Devotional Nonduality, that serious spiritual seekers adjust their lifestyle to be in accord with their spiritual commitment. This brings up issues such as attachments, relationships, possessions. etc. “In the end, to the true devotee, the pursuit of spiritual reality supersedes all other [...]
February 18, 2009 – 3:58 pm
In hindsight, I realize that even though I don’t have the Meher Baba’s autographed copy of Stay with God, he gave me something much more valuable. He gave me His sweet presence and a drop of His bliss, and the conviction that He is the Ancient One, the Avatar, God in human form. He is Infinite Love, and as the late singer-song writer Bob Brown used to sing to Him: “You are so close, you make my breath seem far.”
February 16, 2009 – 6:18 pm
We are receiving the fruit of our action as a human race, but it is also according to the law of entropy so it is a perfectly natural and expected outcome. But if something doesn’t intervene on a planetary scale, we will completely destroy ourselves.
February 12, 2009 – 1:39 pm
When we meet people who are homeless, begging and disheveled, how do we look at them? Someone said to me the other day ”I can’t bear to see homeless people.” Another person said to me “I can’t bear to see old people who are shut ins who can’t go outside.” Another person said to me, “I can’t bear [...]
February 9, 2009 – 3:03 pm
To perceive perfectly the absolute oneness that envelops us all is to be Self Realized.
January 19, 2009 – 12:04 pm
A reader asked me what is the best way to let go of extra weight that was put on due to the ego’s fear and need for protection several years ago. Here are my thoughts that I shared with her: This is an all too common reflex of the ego, which is in its essence, an [...]
December 21, 2008 – 10:58 am
I wasn’t expecting to be talking about a new humanity when I called an old friend from the West Coast a few days ago. He is a teacher of special needs children in Los Angeles. He is also a poet, an actor, a lover of God, and the best joke teller I have ever known. [...]
October 22, 2008 – 11:30 am
This past weekend I attended a workshop on energy psychology. I was the only non-therapist in the room. Why was I there? I wanted to learn new tools for myself, and I wanted to write about it for my blog. The brochure I received in the mail looked good, but I didn’t know just how [...]
October 9, 2008 – 8:39 am
Perhaps you know the axiom that where there is a crisis, there is an opportunity. So what is the opportunity in the current world financial crisis, besides buying cheap stocks? Is there a spiritual component to it? Yes, the financial world seems to be spinning out of control. Banks are going under, houses are being [...]
September 7, 2008 – 10:32 am
Hypocrisy is all too common. Have you ever met someone who tried to make an impression on you of being holier than thou? Don’t be fooled. You don’t become a saint by just looking like a saint. Progress on the path comes from being more and more human, and more and more natural. Hypocrisy is [...]
August 26, 2008 – 10:07 pm
We are infinite beings. Every one of us, young and old, healthy and sick, rich and poor, are spiritual beings. This is our primary reality. We are not our circumstances. The conditions of our lives, whether we are young or old, healthy or sick, etc., are just temporal experiences. They are not lasting. If they [...]
Have you ever noticed that some people hold attitudes and beliefs for a lifetime? There is a reason for that, and it is also the reason why making spiritual progress can be so hard. That reason , according to the late psychiatrist David Shainberg (he died in December 1993) is that thoughts are like vortices [...]
Steve Pavlina writes: “You can’t be intelligent if you turn your back on truth and succumb to falsehood and denial.” How Much more true that is if you are striving for higher consciousness or even Self Realization. This process of facing truth and not succumbing to falsehood and denial is a continual challenge. We so [...]
Veils of illusion entrap us all. So much of the suffering of the world is unnecessary. It’s created by taking the false as the real and consequently, the real as the false. As we make progress on the inner path, we gain a deeper sense of love, wholeness, bliss, intuition, inspiration and peace. We begin [...]
Einstein once said that nothing happens until something moves. This is true in physics as well as in life. And as physics so well demonstrates, more energy is needed to move a stationary object than is required for one that is already moving. That is part of the law of inertia, which states that “A [...]
The other day I watched online the Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling give this year’s commencement address at Harvard. The title was “The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination.” Here is an excerpt that resonated with me: So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping [...]
It’s not often that I get into a discussion about reincarnation with other people, but last night the situation presented itself. My wife and I were relaxing with another couple (new friends of ours) after the four of us saw a movie (Iron Man), had dinner, and took a walk on the beach. We were [...]
The roles of the head and the heart in our lives are significant. For we live in a world that requires much of the head, but eventually we realize that though we live in the world, we are not of the world. We are of divine origin and we have a divine desination. To find [...]
Worry can take a perfectly wonderful day and make it a living hell. Why do we do that to ourselves? Worry cannot exist when we live completely in the present moment. In the present moment, we deal with “what is,” not with “what might happen.” In present moment living, our whole being becomes engaged with [...]
We all witness certain events in the course of our lives that stand out from others — events we won’t ever forget. Such an event I witnessed this past Friday night — the type of event that legends are made from. It wasn’t a tragedy like the assination of JFK, or the terrorism of 911, [...]
The great striving towards higher consciousness is different from other goals we set out to attain. It’s not like wanting to lose weight by going to the gym three or four times a week to burn calories. It’s not like setting aside a certain time each day like you would to pursue a skill in [...]