There is a beautiful place within, a timeless place, a place where the sequence no longer matters, effect drifts into and around cause, elements become whole...
If I am wrestling with alligators, I am in the wrong building. I need to go over to that building across the way where they practice love and kindness. It...
Almost everything depends on how I use my time. Time can be thought of as precious, scarce, not enough. Or it can be seen as an endless ocean, ever flowing. ...
When we can't seem to get the mind to slow down enough to focus, when we try and it is like a whirl wind, throwing many issues, fogging the mind, how do we cut...
Strange to say it this way, but meditation is about more than spiritual enlightenment. Or maybe it would be better to say that meditation can be about a lot...
Attitude is everything. It's not what I say, it's how I say it. It's not what's happening, it's how I feel about it. I am always expressing. Attitude is...
Defending myself, attacking others, are the sure ways of convicting myself in my own mind. I need always to know that I am not perfect, that I make mistakes,...
An interesting thing about major healing is major pain. The Sufi greets pain with joy and excitement. Some new lesson is in the process of revealing itself. I...
No matter what is going on in our lives, nature, the whole divine energy system, is still smoothly cranking out its wonders. The flowers bloom, the wind blows,...
The source of Emanations Thought for the Day was a moment of awareness when I was in the hospital with cancer back in 1991. I realized that I had wasted most...
The Emanations process is to go to the still point from wherever I happen to be at the moment, a search for peace and love, to go to the universal center. The...
A friend said he was feeling that the more aware we become the finer the lines become, that the edge is no longer as clear as it was. The continuum merges into...
There is a spiritual dilemma that has an interesting Catch-22 aspect. The very methods we use for spiritual discovery may, in fact, be distracting us from...
It is when we do nothing about the things that bother us that we become disturbed. This can happen for a number of reasons, the most common being simply fear. ...
There is an awareness within that is all you, truth, beauty, love, just you and your connection to the beautiful infinity within you, that reaches out into the...
We are basically totally suggestible. What we say to ourselves is what we believe. But you can't really fool yourself by saying things you don't believe. What...
There is a beautiful universe within us, an edge that we cross over in consciousness to enter the continuum of the miraculous, the spiritually phenomenal, the...
The mystical state is a fundamental kind of awareness. It is often seen as a rarified sort of thing, the realm of the far out, an exceptional state for...
There is a critical mass of spiritual awareness which, when we reach it, will spread into the world like a chain reaction, altering human consciousness like...
Buckminster Fuller, one of the greatest geniuses of all time, envisioned a better world. He saw it rationally and clearly. He questioned basic things, like...
I was reading a respected writing on spirituality. The author was wrestling with some old friends, ambiguity and contradiction. He wanted to make a point about...
The peace comes and speaks. Its wisdom is soft, gradual, evolving slowly in consciousness. Peace moves in the stillness, coming into fullness as a dawning, the...
I was trying to make distinctions between love, truth, and beauty. I just couldn't manage it. They connect together so seamlessly. I was taught to make...
When we experience adoration and love, a whole new level of attitudes and actions flows through us. We become humble servants of that love. Our questions...
Dear Subscribers, First of all, happy holidays to all of you. May you connect in good ways with those you love. Now to business. I am about to engage a...
I am contemplating what can be. It is astonishing what humanity has accomplished. We have been led by the creative genius of human consciousness to physical...
Spiritual reality has a much different feel than spiritual fantasy. Spiritual fantasy imagines and creates. Spiritual reality confronts and deals with. So,...
There is a difference between a spiritual experience and getting high. I'm a recovering expert on both. The thing is that the spiritual experience is a high,...
The nature of the ideas we need to grow and develop is a wide range. Some thoughts are beautiful, sublime, extraordinary in their ability to carry us into the...
Goals and desires are spiritually beautiful. Don't think they're not. There is a level at which we go beyond everything and are complete and at peace within. ...
