A quiet conscience makes one strong!

We train the mind so that we can enjoy greater peace, happiness, wisdom & equanimity.

But the very ransomed children of God themselves: why do they know so little of that habitual conscious communion with God which the Scriptures seem to offer? The answer is our chronic unbelief. Faith enables...

You can live as a particle crashing about and colliding in a welter of materials with god, or you can live as a particle crashing about and colliding in a welter of materials without god....

​”But you can thank God the Lord for His inconceivable goodness, which can be recognized daily and hourly throughout your entire existence, if only you honestly try! Your whole life shall therefore become a thanksgiving!

Just because you are alive, doesn’t mean that life is going to hand you everything. If you keep believing life will somehow automatically improve on its own, then you’re going to waste many years of...

What should I do?” and the answer was always, relentlessly, write a book and share it.

The same faint song is heard in everything: “Behold yourself”.

Nourish yourself so you can feed others.

Hey, Sethy! If I could bottle and sell the way I’m feeling right now, I think I’d make enough money to buy Kurt Cobain’s soul back from the devil”-Kaye

Our lives are more like a canvas on which we paint, than a script we need to learn – though the illusion of the latter appeals to us by its lower risk.

You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you.

Excerpt from “The Strength in Knowing”Doubt is the archenemy of the purity of thought and it inhibits theessence of all that is

When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless.

The degree of Spiritual growth is directly proportionate to the degree of personal freedom; your very own individuality.

When you have experienced the depth of your inner self, the idea of enlightenment is no longer a goal to strive towards, but rather an attitude to maintain.

Enlightenment begins by getting acquainted with your inner voice or your higher self. The dialogue experienced in this process leads to a more comfortable, better-focused lifestyle. Over time this relationship blossoms into a higher and...

So much of life, it seems to me, is the framing and naming of things. I had been so busy creating a future of love that I never identified the life I was living as...

As we learn to give thanks for all of life and death, for all of this given world of ours, we find a deep joy. It is the joy of trust, the joy of faith...

The only true wisdom lives far from mankind, out in the great loneliness, and it can be reached only through suffering. Privation and suffering alone can open the mind of man to all that is...

I was all the time tugging and carrying water. But now I have a river that carries me.

For the Buddha of the Pali Canon, the goal is liberation: the cessation of suffering, the end of the endless hamster-wheel of dependent origination, of mental formations leading to desire leading to clinging leading to...

Religion has no power if God is not truly ‘dangerous,’ but religion also seeks to manage God, and make God safe.The second commandment speaks against the management of God. We cannot help but make our...

It seems that scientific research reaches deeper and deeper. But it also seems that more and more people, at least scientists, are beginning to realize that the spiritual factor is important. I say ‘spiritual’ without...

The force that played havoc with the cortisol in my blood was the same force that helped my body recover; if I felt better one day and worse the next, it was unchanged. It chose...

Spirituality is about being awake. It’s the attempt to transcend the mundane, sleepwalking experience of life we all fall into, to tap into the wonder of being a conscious and grateful thing in the midst...

At our core there is silence and stillness…that is truly who we are when you peel away the titles, the ego, the thoughts, the beliefs, the intellect….once you get REALLY naked –you will see that...

…I love this about Christian spirituality. It cannot be explained, and yet it is beautiful and true. It is something you feel, and it comes from the soul.

As you grow in true spiritual power and understanding you will actually find that many outer rules and regulations will become unnecessary; but this will be because you have really risen above them; never, never,...

When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.

Faith is divine. Apostles (in many cases) are the devil

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state,...

Danny begins to walk fast and it strikes me that I don’t know where we’re ultimately headed. This bothers me. I’m calibrated for destination. It’s partly why I’ve been imagining divinity as some sort of...

Accept yourself, seek the divinity within you.

The two of us sat back down in the swing and continued sitting side-by-side the first Day of June; moving to-and-fro in the swing on the front porch. A soothing summer breeze caught a ride...

Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and can be named.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

I’ve never heard anyone say “I wish I hadn’t forgiven.

That’s not me.That’s my duality!

In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by communion with unspoiled nature. In such surroundings- occasional as our visits may be-...

The most exciting and most defining part of our spirituality comes from the journey we take.

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world’s friend.

Hell is a womb for souls, when will you choose to be reborn?

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

What we believe about God is the most important truth we believe, and it’s the one truth that does the most to shape us. God is the Sun too bright for us to see. Jesus...

I revel in flowers without let,An atom at random in space;My soul dwells in regions ethereal,And the world is my dreaming-place.

You have an inner prosperity guide: your intuition. When you begin to pay attention to it, it will lead you to this truth – Abundance is your birthright.

Who you affect is more powerful than who you are at any given moment. Nothing is as enduring as a great memory. In the end, its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, and feelings that last....

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of...

Some communities don’t permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised a question, only to be told by their family, church,...