I was doing a public speaking event recently and I was asked about the very first message on page 5 of the 3,000 pages of the Conversations with Goddialogue. “What does it mean?”, a member of my audience wanted to know. I gave what I thought was a pretty good answer, but I remembered that […]

People, people, what are we doing to ourselves…? Has the time not yet come when we will rise up in gentleness and love, and yet with sweet and resolute determination, to say: Enough. Now that’s just enough—? Are the people in North Carolina really going to go along with this direct legislative assault on gays, […]

We have a candidate for president of the United States who says of a protestor at one of his campaign events, “I’d like to punch him in the face.” We have a candidate for president who says of protestors at his events, “I love the old days — you know what they used to do […]

(This is the third in a series of commentaries on Happiness, and How To Find It.) In our last commentary here we pointed to the fact that life gives all of us the opportunity to heal an old injury, to close an old wound, to alter an old pattern, to shift an old reality, to […]

(This is the second in a series of observations on Happiness, and what causes it — or can cause it — in the experience of human beings.) I am going to share with you now a device with immense power — a simple device that can transform almost any moment, almost miraculously, almost immediately, into […]

I appeared the other day on a globally broadcast panel discussion with Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith and Bishop Carlton Pearson and we were asked a series of extremely interesting questions. I thought it might be fun to share a couple of them: What is the secret of happiness? What is the meaning of life? In […]

I had the honor of being the master of ceremonies on Saturday at a Celebration of Life event in honor of my father-in-law. The room was packed with family and friends of my wife’s Dad, and I had the chance to share with this standing room only audience some thoughts arising from the final book […]

Many people have the experience that Divinity exists, but not nearly as many have the experience that they exist as Divinity. This is not because they are not capable of experiencing themselves as Divine, it is because they do not conceive of themselves as that. This is evidence of our spiritual immaturity, not of our […]

The world has never been in more turmoil than it is today. Individual lives have never felt more tenuous. The Human Journey has never seemed more senseless. What is the point of all this?, human beings are asking themselves. Why bother living if it’s just about encountering saddening and upsetting, unraveling and upheaving experiences at […]