Divine Love is one of those topics that people can talk about and theorize about all day
The experience I am going through now I call the Zen of Being Sick. Over the weekend I became sick. I lost my voice. I probably have bronchitis. I have a fever, chills, no energy for work and too much discomfort for sleep. And the end result is feeling miserable. And yet, it serves a [...]
February 28, 2009 – 10:56 pm
Emerson wrote once that everyone he met was in some way his superior, and in that way, he learns from them. And while I also experience that to be true, what I find more significant is this: that once in a great while I meet someone, or hear of someone, whose life inspires me to [...]
February 27, 2009 – 8:37 pm
What does living as a trustee mean? First of all it means a complete change of consciousness. The idea that I own anything at all is an illusion. How can a tiny point of energy own anything. I don’t even own my own body. Nothing is mine. Everything belongs to God and I am just [...]
February 26, 2009 – 8:48 am
It says somewhere in the Christian bible that it’s harder for a rich man to get into heaven than it is for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. My understanding is that, the eye of a needle refers to the arched narrow needle shaped entrances through the walls of cities like [...]
February 25, 2009 – 8:37 am
I know someone who has always had a lot of courage. One day I asked her how did you develop your courage? She said, “Well, when I was a little girl, growing up in Great Britain there was a popular brand of beer called Courage Beer. There were large billboards everywhere advertising this beer. There [...]
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 23, 2009 – 8:36 am
At this time many people are on edge and can fly off the handle at the least little thing. Often things happen or people say things that are unreasonable. A worthwhile power to develop within yourself is the power to tolerate with love. True tolerance isn’t something forced. It really means to see the good [...]
February 20, 2009 – 6:15 pm
I had an aunt who passed away about 10 years ago. She was famous as a doctor in the field of birth control. She was considered to the pioneer for birth control in Canada. One thing I remember about her was the way she was totally unaffected by anything that the media said about her. [...]
February 19, 2009 – 2:08 pm
Most of the time we move along through life in a very ordinary sort of way following a routine, thinking the same sorts of thoughts as we always have, feeling that the world is physical and relating to one another in terms of the outward appearance of the body. But for many of us [...]
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 14, 2009 – 4:23 pm
There is an important fine line between respect for others and being impressed by them. By having respect for others we allow their virtues and qualities to inspire us to become more elevated in our thoughts, words and actions. We never lose our own self respect by giving respect. We actually increase it. We can [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
My friend Carrie asked if I would write on the subject, “Don’t Wait until You’re Great.” It’s an intriguing subject. And though not everybody has designs on being great, I’m sure there are plenty of people who do. And many more who might have such an ambition later. There are millions of people who want [...]
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 [...]
People who are attuned to higher vibrations can see deeper aspects of reality, aspects that most people cannot. They have what I call inner vision. Some of these people experience nothing but bliss. They see beyond the denseness of the material world, into the finer realms of the subtle. These types of people are rare, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]