Some of the uglier aspects of human behavior today arise from fear of the wholesale changes we must now undergo.
To let ourselves feel anguish and disorientation as we open our awareness to global suffering is a part of our spiritual ripening. Mystics speak of the “dark night of the soul.” (more…)

Those who’ve found “their place in life” aren’t reporting 24-hour highs. They’re not jazzed all the time. They still complain about annoying administration randomly puncturing their concentration. However, their language invoked a different troika: meaningful/significant/fulfilling. And they rarely ever talk about their work without interweaving some of their personal history, explaining how the two are related…..

There’s a difference between something that stimulates you for a year and something you can be passionate about for ten years. What is the difference? (more…)

If you are filled with anger, you create more suffering for yourself than for the other person. When you are inhabited by the energy of anger, you want to punish, you want to destroy. That is why those who are wise do not want to say anything or do anything while the anger is still in them. So you try to bring peace into yourself first. When you are calm, when you are lucid, you will see that the other person is a victim of confusion, of hate, of violence transmitted by society, by parents, by friends, by the environment. When you are able to see that, your anger is no longer there…… (more…)

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. When you dare to face the things that scare you, you open the door to freedom and success.
Most of your obstacles would melt away if (more…)

It is a fact of economics that the basis of wealth is generosity. Today the wealth of the modern nations comes from three main sources: 1) The generosity of hard work, self-sacrifice, and inventiveness of the former generations; 2) the generosity of older, gentler nations, from whose Asian, African, and American lands enormous wealth was exploited by western and recently westernized entrepreneurs; 3) the generosity of the earth herself, with the sun, the oceans, and the winds. Now we, the people of modern nations, must “make contributions” with that wealth to create still more wealth for the future. (more…)

Your own positive energy will compel things to turn out the way you desire
when you’re surrounded by positive people. Your environment is your mental feeding ground from which the food that goes into your mind is extracted. Choose your environment with care, one that is positive,
one that lifts you up and gives you wings to soar. (more…)

The maturity we can develop in approaching our difficulties is illustrated by the traditional story of a poisoned tree. On first discovering a poisoned tree, some people see only it danger. Their immediate reaction is, “Let’s cut this down before we are hurt. Let’s cut it down before anyone else eats of the poisoned fruit.” This resembles our initial response to the difficulties that arise in our lives, when we encounter (more…)

Each adult juggles mature and infantile motives, adjudicates between “rebellious emotions” and appropriate feelings.

To the degree that we are faulted, we are motivated by our fear of deficiency rather than our trust in sufficiency. Our love proceeds more from (more…)

Whatever you plant in your subconscious mind
and nourish every day with conviction and emotion
will one day become a reality.

Constant repetition carries conviction.
Repeat something often enough and it will start to become you.
A change in what you tell yourself
will result in a change in your behavior. (more…)

Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work. (more…)