No matter what is being played out on the world stage, it is no excuse for losing hold on the primary reality of inner life. Yes, we have to live in the world, but while living in it, we need to remember what we are – spiritual beings. Every moment, if we allow it, is [...]
We all have within our being a sacred place where love is meant to flourish. It’s an inner garden. For some, because there is such a lack of love, the ground is dry and hard as rock. Love has no chance to even take root. It’s like a seed thrown on a rock. For others, [...]
Have you ever been happy for no reason at all? You don’t know why. But you are happy. That is causeless happiness.
Disillusionment is the key to overcoming the most difficult addiction to overcome: the addiction to illusion. People don’t even realize the addiction exists. They don’t even know that what they take for reality is, in fact, illusion. And even when they do realize that what they take for reality, is in fact illusion, they don’t [...]
Anyone who has an experience of the Divine Presence, for however brief a moment it might be, longs to return to that experience. For in those sacred moments, we discover deep within that nothing else matters. Not politics, not the stock market, not the baseball standings. Not even illness or impending death. The world of [...]
There is a Divine Presence. It can be most intensely felt in the realm of existence beyond the level of the gross senses — the inner world. This is the realm of subtle energy, inspiration, and illumination. This inner world is the gateway to the final goal, the only Real Existence — the Infinite Knowledge, [...]
In my college days, I was in a band that played at small nightclubs. We had a trumpet player, who sometimes would start out on a solo sounding awful. He’d stop and turn to me, and ask, “Hey Man, what key are we in?” I’d tell him and then everything would be beautiful. In life, [...]
I read the news today and saw a picture being painted of a world teetering on the brink of disaster. A never-ending war, a possible new war, global warming, a possible world-wide financial collapse, rising oil prices, and plummeting food supplies. It has all the ingredients of a perfect storm which could reduce the world [...]
We live in a culture that that conditions our thinking that we don’t have enough. We are told over and over again in media messages and advertising that we need bigger, better, and faster things to be happy. I remember reading the words of poet, Francis Brabazon, who picked up on this theme by writing [...]
Presence alone can dissolve patterns of unconsciousness. Eckhart Tolle, in the 10 week web seminar being hosted by Oprah Winfrey, puts total emphasis on experiencing Presence. He says you can call it what you want – consciousness, awareness, God – but that it permeates the universe. And that it alone can dissolve the patterns of [...]
The speech on race by Barack Obama today brought tears to my eyes. It resonated deeply in my heart, filling it with an excitement and hope for new possibilities in the world. I learned later that it had that effect on a wide spectrum of people. I think it is fair to say that in [...]
Eckhart Tolle’s book, A New Earth — Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, is the focus of more than two million people world-wide. These masses of people are participating live in a free on-line course with Oprah Winfrey and Eckhart Tolle. Although the book was first published in 2005, it is now the #1 selling book [...]
Patterns of consciousness define us. Consciously and unconsciously, we are forming patterns in behavior and thinking every moment of our lives. Some of these patterns contribute to internal freedom and creativity of spirit. Some contribute to states of internal bondage and suffering. By the use of inner awareness, we can become conscious of what patterns [...]
January 16, 2008 – 6:10 pm
It is the ability to perceive wholeness that brings peace to the weary mind. With wholeness comes beauty, harmony, balance, knowledge and love. Without it, they are hidden. Our view of the world directly influences how the world responds to us just as how you view a person directly influences how that person responds to [...]
January 7, 2008 – 3:03 pm
The late physicist David Bohm believed that no single cause and effect relationship is ever really separate from the universe. In essence, everything interpenetrates everything else. To put it another way, we are all responsible for the well being of the planet. No one is to blame, for we are all co-creators of the world [...]
December 21, 2007 – 2:00 pm
The world is so out of balance. People, after all, are dying of starvation while others are dying of obesity. It seems to me that more people care about winning the lottery than finding inner peace. More people care about who wins the Super Bowl than how much of the polar ice caps melt. How [...]
December 10, 2007 – 5:50 pm
My wife and I experienced a synchronicity the other day. We were in Asheville, North Carolina walking to a restaurant when Maggie (my wife) remembered and started talking to me about an old boyfriend from her college days who grew up in Asheville. She remembered that once when she was visiting him in Asheville his [...]
November 7, 2007 – 9:00 pm
Thinking differently about politics is my contribution to the Think Different Challenge. Politics used to take up a lot of my attention. In the past I would read something or hear something about a short-sighted politician and totally forget the purpose of my life. Instead of striving to be the best person I could be, [...]
October 27, 2007 – 1:59 pm
Transformation is the goal of personal development. It is taking a life of limitation and moving it towards the unlimited. This movement from the limited to the unlimited is both a death and a birth. It’s a winter turning into spring. It’s a letting go of the old and worn out ways of life to [...]
October 10, 2007 – 6:10 pm
Greatness is possible for every person because there is Power in every person. There are no exceptions. This power exists not only in every person, but in everything. It is consciousness. Through an understanding of how this power of consciousness operates and continuously expands, man transcends the limitations of life and lives in the realm [...]
October 9, 2007 – 3:00 pm
I was struck by the following words of Epictitus the other night at a local bookstore so I jotted them down: “You are a primary existence. You are a distinct portion of the essence of God, and contain a certain part of Him in yourself. Why then are you ignorant of your noble birth? You [...]
October 7, 2007 – 6:00 am
For the last week I have been reading The Bourne Ultimatum. I finished it this morning after reading the gory details of over 100 killings by the ultimate antagonist. An interesting story but what an assault on my mind. Last night, for example, I had a dream that I was the owner of an AK-47 [...]
October 4, 2007 – 2:45 pm
Will computer chip brain implants save the world or seal its doom? Scientific estimates are that in 30 years the surgical procedure will be a widespread occurrence. Knowledge will no longer need to be learned, it will be uploaded. A world leader, known only for only average intelligence at best, could invite the world chess [...]
October 2, 2007 – 8:43 pm
I received an e-mail this morning that was sounding an alarm bell about the likely war between the United States and Iran, a war that seems to be on the agenda of the current White House administration. No one is to blame for this dark and ominous state of affairs and yet everyone is to [...]
September 30, 2007 – 5:30 pm
Today, September 30, 2007, is the 800th birthday of Rumi, the immortal poet and mystic, who realized in his lifetime the infinity of truth that he longed for. He is now the number one selling poet in the English language. He was born, as we all are, as a finite drop. But before he died, [...]