Living In Spirit

We have all at least heard of them, bet you can’t recite them any more than you can the seven dwarfs or supreme court justices. For me the v...

Thought about Moses lately? Living on the Spiritual Basis, we strive for a conscious contact with God, the purpose of the work. Moses, accor...

Often a student in difficulty will state they “need to get back to basics”. I have searched high and low and have been unable to find the so...

Today Easy Does It, along with One Day at a Time, First Things First, Live and Let Live and Think, Think, Think adorn the walls of AA meetin...

* Clarity: n clar·i·ty [klérrətee] 1. clearness of expression: the quality of being clearly expressed 2. clearness of thought: clearness...

Emmet Fox coined the term “Mental Equivalent” over 80 years ago. It addresses the Law of Substitution in a practical sense. Simply, we take ...

Living on the Spiritual Basis our prayers take on a new flavor. Though all prayers are heard, we have come to know they are answered in the ...

Only when we are clear on what we worship, for everyone worships something. Money, power, property, prestige, fame, the list is endless. Vic...

Living on the Spiritual Basis, we have turned our will and life over to the care of God. The basis of trusting and relying upon a power grea...

Everyone’s life is built on a foundation; many however will never take the time to inspect their foundation to see what it is made of until ...

Willing to go to any lengths. Anyone who has sought help in a 12-step program has been asked that question. Are you willing to go to any len...

There is no such thing as undemonstrated understanding. What do you believe? What we believe manifests in our lives. Consider the state of y...

Living on the Spiritual Basis, the basis of trusting and relying upon God, it would be foolish not to think of what the full impact of this ...

Scott Peck in The Road Less Traveled states “Life is difficult.” Pretty much says it all doesn’t it. So what are we going to do about it? Mo...

“Treating all in the same manner we wish to be treated in.” If, for any reason, I can justify treating anyone in a manner I would find objec...

What do you believe? Not intellectually, but in action. Thinking or saying something does not make it so. Only by our actions, our demonstra...

Getting older is not all bad, which is good considering the alternative. When I wore a younger mans clothes I was much surer of things than ...

Either we are all children of God or none of us are. Let us not get caught up in terms. Many paths lead to the raising of our consciousness....

Walking the way we talk. At some point in our lives, we have all received advice or direction, usually unsolicited, from someone, though wel...

Having come to an understanding of the law of reaping and sowing or if you prefer the Law of Karma, does this mean the universe acts only re...

“With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again” (Matthew 7:2). There is nothing new under the sun. The Secret (law of attrac...

There are a wide variety of laws. Traffic laws, tax laws, criminal laws to name a few classifications. There is one set of laws though that ...

Living life at raised levels of consciousness our harshest critic is always ourselves. As we become more aware, we naturally hold ourselves ...

Ready to step out in faith? Ready to take some concrete action? Cool. For the next 24 hours you are to act as if you really do believe in Go...

Scientific prayer is how. Get quiet, do not try to control your thoughts, anyone who says they control the thoughts that float through their...

No one but you and God know what is in your heart, nor can we ever truly know what is in the heart of another, for only God has that ability...

The Secret, the Power of Intention, the Bible, all religions and spiritual paths teach that there is an inexhaustible supply available to al...

“Do not die with your music in you.” That feeling of dissatisfaction, the sense of something missing in life is God quietly but insistently ...

Emmet Fox teaches: “Your real problem-the only problem you have-is to find your true calling in life. Everything else will fall into place. ...

Grow up. Whenever someone does or says something juvenile there is invariably an “adult” nearby to suggest this course of action. We have al...

* Karma : n 1. Eastern religion Eastern philosophy: the Hindu and Buddhist philosophy according to which the quality of people’s current a...

We all know people who are set in their ways. You couldn’t move them with dynamite off a position or opinion long held. In politics they are...

Nothing says inevitable reckoning like birthdays. As children birthdays were looked forward too with nearly as much anticipation as Christma...

Now here is a topic with “jump the shark” written all over it. For many years I struggled with the concept of once around the block and done...

Cosmologically the “Big Bang” is the accepted starting point for our universe. The theory holds that at one time everything that exists toda...

Death awaits all men but waits on no man. Everything, from the may fly to stars die. Death is the change that brings renewal. To be sad at ...

WSJ.com - Opinion: The Climate Change Climate Change ...

We all know the man or woman who makes the same mistakes repeatedly. Perhaps you have seen them in the mirror. The alcoholic, who forever is...

Psychics and mediums have been around forever, from the Oracle at Delphi to John Edwards. Houdini, Penn Gillette, Randy and others have made...

SELF-DESTRUCTION All destruction is caused by self, by the choices in action we take, whether it is a nation or individual. We are bo...

There is another link as well, in many cases seemingly stronger than love, and that is resentment. When we think on those we love the sense ...

Here’s a daunting task, tackling eternity, reincarnation etc in four to five hundred words. Let me know how I do. Atheists: nothing. Fade to...

Death, now here is a topic guaranteed to let the air out of a room, a polite conversation killer. Yet we all have/will deal with it. First t...

Reborn. An overused term to be sure, but the only one that accurately states the truth of Living on the Spiritual Basis. Before stepping in ...

Anything that requires assembly comes with instructions. I purchased a teapot recently and inside were instructions. Now the instruction she...

Ever board an airliner on a cloudy day? On the ground it is dark, possibly dank, shadow enveloping everything. Then the plane lifts off the ...

The longest eighteen inches in the world is from the head to the heart. Intellect to faith. Talking about faith, about God, is easy. Standin...

As a man thinketh. What and how we think out pictures in our lives. To think that we can entertain certain thoughts; ones we wouldn’t say a...

Words have meaning. Sounds like a “duh” kinda thing to say but bear with me. Often when chatting with a student or in casual conversation wi...

People who have cast their lot to Living on the Spiritual basis by virtue of the 12 step program of action have a leg up on those not afflic...