Accepting Non-Acceptance

It’s not always easy to stand in the midst of a group of people (particularly if those people are people that we have known and are attached to emotionally) and be different. To think differently, to believe differently, to respond differently, to live a different life than our friends and our family are living is, in a sense, the “toughest challenge” of manifesting our spiritual self…

Equal In the Eyes of God

There was a time in my life when I seriously wondered whether there was intelligent life on other planets. As a child, I believed that we human beings here on the planet Earth were God’s only children. I learned early on how special we were: we were made in God’s image, to look after His planet. There was no other force in the universe (which I envisioned as a big, black void with our planet in the center) that could compare to us…

Actualizing Personal Truth

Self-actualization comes down to three basic premises: this is who I am, this is what I believe and the foundation on which my life is built, and this is the way I manifest that belief system on a daily basis. If you say that you live by the Golden Rule, but treat other people with a lack of respect, then you are dishonest, and others will perceive you as hypocritical…

Livin’ On A Prayer

When I was a child, I thought as a child, and I prayed as a child. Every night I closed my eyes tightly and said the words my mother taught me: “Now I lay me down to sleep,I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.” I didn’t have the faintest idea what it meant, or why I was supposed to say it every night before I went to sleep, but I did it religiously, because that’s what my mother taught me to do…

Connecting to Spirit

Every soul that is currently experiencing life on any level begins and ends as a whole. Our essence – the very core of our spiritual being – remains One with God. We always have been, and always will be, a part of ‘the whole’ that is the God-consciousness level. Our soul essence, which began as whole, remains whole throughout the soul growth process, and will still be whole when the growth process has been completed and we no longer leave the whole to pursue our own life studies…

Creating Our Own Emotional Chaos

It’s amazing how – even when we’re working from a “higher vision” – we still see the people, the events and the circumstances in our lives with the same perspective: our own! It’s “only human” to always be able to see how right we are in any given situation, and it’s always difficult – and sometimes impossible! – to look at ourselves and our actions through the other person’s eyes. But if we really want to grow – if we really want to know who we are – then we have to be willing to look at ourselves a little more objectively….

Going Where You’ve Never Gone Before

One of the first issues people on the spiritual path have to address is a doctrinal one: Is it wrong to ask questions that I’ve never asked before? Is asking questions about the truth we’ve been taught “sinful?” Your answer can have a dramatic effect on your ability to explore who you are and what you believe in without guilt!

Humility, Not Pride: Keeping Ice Off Your Bow

Trying to keep your spiritual life afloat? Sinful pride can send you straight to the bottom. And it doesn’t arrive all at once, but like ice on the bow of a fishing boat, it accumulates imperceptibly, little by little. If you don’t knock it off continually, you’re sunk!

To Witness the Life That is God

My wife, our friend and I went to listen to a concert in one of the well known Halls in Melbourne. After parking our car two elderly ladies showed us where the entrance was and we began walking toward it. Coming down from a small asphalt slope on the way we suddenly heard an alarming sound behind us, turned around and saw that one of these ladies had fallen heavily.

Getting Your Feelings Down on Paper

If you haven’t already done so, please start keeping a journal today. It is one of the most effective ways to hear your own voice. You should not share the information in your journal with anyone. These are your private and innermost sacred thoughts.

It Seems We Have All Taken a “POW”

A Pow is a word that I use to describe the vow of poverty.

African American Spiritual Health and Healing

Take care of yourself first and you will better be able to care for those around you. In our opinion the most effective way to achieve this is through practices of spiritual health. All of the information herein is designed to move you toward inner-peace through self-knowledge.