When the Real Heart Breaks Open
When the real heart breaks open, the question becomes, "How can one serve the One? How can one be this Truth?" And there's no final...
How Generosity Leads to Awakening
The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner...
Your Job -- A Manifestation of Your Spirit
[At your job], just as with prayer, any attempt to change the outer circumstances without making a change within the consciousness is...
A Path to Truth
When you speak of a path to truth, it implies that truth, this living reality, is not in the present, but somewhere in the distance,...
Freely Functioning in Wisdom
Awareness is there, uncreated, freely functioning in wisdom and love, when self-centered conditioning is clearly revealed in all its...
Kindness, Plain and Simple
I believe in kindness. But it's hard to be kind. We're not trained for it. Kindness is for sissies; we learn that early. "Nice guys...
Serving Like The Mountain Stream
I was taught when I was a little boy that it was good to be unselfish and loving, and I used to think that I should grow up to serve...
Integrity Grows From A Humbling Realization
"The purpose of life is ... to know oneself. We cannot do so unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives." -- Mohandas K....
Awake or Asleep
The beauty of this day awakens within me. The ocean tides in my eyes wash over my cheeks with the surprise glimpse of the elegance of the...
Go Placidly Amid the Noise and Haste
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be...
Giving it All up to the Stillness
I realize that I have spent much of my life waiting for inspiration. Ever since I was a child, I have had an Inner Voice that has guided...
To Transcend: Observe Cause and Effect
Self-mastery involves recognizing what we are not responsible for -- the thoughts that enter our mind and flow out, and the emotions that...