Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God’s valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn’t know what it is...

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to...

Although people all over the world pray in different ways, it is to each heart the most precious light.

What about the children?

Let the fires of truth burn away your false life and your excuses, fears, blaming, doubts and illusions of insignificance.

Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and...

We attract what we are. We attract who we are.

Live in the present, or die in your past; it’s your choice.

When you keep explaining and rehashing you just keep your mistake alive. Learn your lesson and adjust your behavior and move forward.

When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.

With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.

You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.

Introverted seekers need introverted evangelists. It’s not that extroverts can’t communicate the gospel, either verbally or nonverbally, in ways that introverts find appealing, it’s that introverted seekers need to know and see that it’s possible...

Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.

We should count our blessings more than our happenings, as much as we should count our savings more than our earnings.

The world is changing because we’re changing it. And that makes me understand, at least, what kind of person I’d like to be. A person can seek ways, whether big or small, to heal the...

And so people ask God for signs and wonders. Yet when signs are given and wonders are performed, most can’t even see them! I therefore believe that it’s not signs people should be asking God...

What is a valley of tears? He was scourged, covered with spittle, crowned with thorns, nailed to the cross. From this valley of tears you must ascend. But ascend where? ‘In the beginning was the...

The great fault of modern democracy — a fault that is common to the capitalist and the socialist — is that it accepts economic wealth as the end of society and the standard of personal...

self” physically from the world (as an unseen entity) alienates the human being from the facts of a sensual world and its realities. In order to have a self, you must provide a story for...

Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling that everyone is staring...

Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called “God.” As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in...

Other people are only aspects of our own greater being.

The more we have outside ourselves the harder it is to get inside ourselves.

The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in...

When religious groups in a conflict eliminate the personal element and perceive themselves as representatives of collectives, heir actions tend to become more “radical” and “merciless.” (Ch.3, by Jaco Cilliers, p. 48)

control” (fueled by fear of loss) fools us into a false sense of security and love. At first glance, it is common to confuse the idea of Conscious Detachment with non-feeling or being cold, however...

Your soul is a precious gift from an imaginative loving Source that endlessly breathes life.

ordinary contemplation,” as the specialists call it—is possible to all men: without it, they are not wholly conscious, nor wholly alive. It is a natural human activity, no more involving the great powers and sublime...

In the search for truth,what you believe matters lessthan how you believe.

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own

Was that the best You can do?” This god, to whom I was desperately sending burnt offerings of my own humiliation, couldn’t send an avenging angel or a wise man imparting wisdom? All You can...

The person with a safe center doesn’t fear change. We can choose change without fear before a challenge only when we are strongly centered.

Forms come and go. You, the quantum non-entity behind your human identity, comes nor goes.

My I love you was a measured response, like one gallon of coffee in one cup of sugar. It was just overflowing with an awakening of my soul.

Jesus Christ, it’s like living with Stevie bloody Nicks,’ I said, ‘only without the cocaine, which would be more fun.

Expose your negatives to light, and just like a photo – the picture of your life will develop into something beautiful.

We are the Masters of each moment.

I suspect you’re thinking of Pascal,’ Finkler said, finally.’Only he said the opposite. He said you might as well wager on God because that way, even if He doesn’t exist, you’ve nothing to lose. Whereas...

Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits.” — Diary of a Country Priest

I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.

Courage is often associated with aggression, but instead should be seen as a willingness to act from the heart.

The LORD GOD is a shelter from the heat.The LORD GOD is a refuge from the storm.

Don’t argue with the person who puts his knowledge above everyone’s else’s; you’ll always lose in that respect. But, in reality, he is the loser because he has put himself in a position where he...

I have come to believe that I am a lesser authority in my own life. I have learned to distrust less-than-rational, nontechnical experiences, my own phenomenal knowledge. Because, to trust the senses – the mortal...

What do you have that the Lord didn’t provide?What do you need that the Lord can’t provide?

Spiritual yearning is the homesickness of the soul.

1. Be Impeccable With Your WordSpeak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction...