“You will never have a quiet world,” George Bernard Shaw said, “until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”

If we box someone up and slap a label on them, then we are not required to challenge our preconceived notions. We stop listening, and we all lose.

We live in a worldwide web far more intricate and powerful than the one built by human technologies: it is a web of Life. Everything affects everything else.

Letting go and allowing, rather than holding fast to a dubious certainty, is the journey to something more. It is the journey that reveals what has been in you all along.

Our lives are being diverted and led away from what is most urgent and important, which is a meaningful relationship with living, breathing, animated life.

What do monkeys, the new year, and spiritual growth have to do with one another? Amazingly, quite a lot.

It’s sad to think that we need guidance in how to grieve, how to be with someone who has gone through a loss when it’s as basic as The Golden Rule: treat others as you would be treated. Simple as that sounds, we don’t do it.

It’s not who or what you love that matters; it is that you can and do love, actively, freely, fiercely. It is your deepest calling.

To have deep integrity is to live in your original state: one with all things, one with the Divine

Becoming conscious, waking up and finding your voice, is the basis for living a truly honest and voluptuous life.

There are all sorts of crossroads that pop-up throughout our lives, some big, some small. Sometimes, we need to wait a bit before we know which road to take.

Happiness these days is big business. But all the stuff being foisted upon us at every turn contributes not one iota to our happiness.

Expanding awareness and allowing yourself to be fully present to whatever appears leads to all sorts of intriguing questions … awareness might just change your life.

It’s completely normal these days to be busily elsewhere in the midst of our current activity. The problem is, this busy, divided attention causes us to miss out on life.

Your judgments reflect who you are and determine who you are. Are yours based in love, or in something else?