Living In Spirit

Judging is a topic greatly misunderstood. Many use the Christ teaching of “Judge not lest you be judged” as some kind of free pass from any...

As we progress on the path of awakening, Living on the Spiritual Basis, we naturally become more sensitive to the world and our fellows. Neg...

Spiritual fool’s gold. Rarely does a week go by that a new self help book/seminar that will solve all our problems, diet to end all diets, m...

We all do. It may be sitting in the garage, on a shelf in the workshop, possibly in a folder in this very computer or a box in the closet wi...

Walking the way we talk. “I would love to listen to your words but your actions speak so loudly I cannot hear you.” The concept of a track r...

In the second act of my life, I made my living swinging a hammer. The man who sponsored me to become a contractor taught, “When the workday ...

What we concentrate on comes into our lives. When we concentrate on fear, loss, resentment, worry, envy or any of the whole host of negative...

Reaping and sowing. Whatever we meet the conditions in our lives with will multiply. When we meet seeming trouble with fear, anger, resentme...

Most of us have an understanding of secular law. Whether it be traffic, criminal, business, tax etc we have some basic knowledge or at the v...

Living in California is always interesting. One of the joys in life is driving down PCH watching pelicans dive for dinner and dolphins surf ...

Alcoholics Anonymous popularized the saying “One Day at a Time” most however, in and out of AA are unaware that the origin was from Emmet Fo...

Remember Alfred E. Newman of Mad magazine fame? His gap toothed grin graced the cover usually with the caption “What, me worry?” Often I wis...

Warning : If you are easily offended or have a barn full of sacred cows, please do not continue reading. You have been warned: feelings of ...

Sometime ago during a discussion on spiritual principles a participant chimed in with “I don’t trouble God with the small things, he’s much ...

If we go down the road of negativity in conversation or thought, we will find ourselves in the grip of morbid reflection. Morbid reflection ...

Consider today’s teaching carefully. Typically, after we have started living on the Spiritual Basis it becomes easy to avoid the obvious neg...

When most think of a recipe, they associate it with cooking. However virtually everything we use today has a “recipe.” Plastics are very dif...

“The world needs more intelligence. There is plenty of will, but because people will not use enough intelligence, mankind everywhere is in...

“Let go and let God.” This sentiment along with “Easy does it” “Live and let live” “Think, Think, Think” and “One day at a time” grace the w...

“Living life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning to play the instrument as we go along” naked. We would never rationally be...

The secular world clamors daily with solutions to all our problems. Call this number and all your financial difficulties will vanish, take t...

Inspiration and perspiration. Perspiration is pretty straight forward, but what of inspiration? The word comes from the Latin inspiratio: to...

Don’t quit five minutes before the miracle. Probably one of the most, if not the most vexing spiritual question is why some prayers seeming...

I had a conversation (berating more accurately) recently with an “adamant” Christian. We have all met them, an adamant Christian is someone ...

Most of us fail to measure the words we use or consider their ultimate impact. We have all had that sick feeling when words have slipped pas...

Since excelsior isn’t a word in common usage today a definition is in order. Excelsior: n. A packing material composed of long, fine, wood s...

For much of my life I wore the coat of an agnostic. Having heard so many preachers teach that God was love but if you broke a certain rule y...

A centipede was quite happy, Until a frog in fun Said, “Pray, which leg comes after which?” This raised her mind to such a pitch, She lay di...

The concept of the power of the smile has been around along time. Who have you smiled at today? In the last few decades a number of studies ...

When we pull ourselves out of the moment, by either dwelling on the past or projecting into the future it is easy to drift into morbid refle...

If we have turned our will and life over to the care of God, then we have chosen the consecrated life. Our only job is to see the Presence o...

The conditions in our life are the result of the crops (thoughts) we plant in our consciousness, how well they were tended and honestly appr...

All our lives we have had hammered into our consciousness the belief that hard work equals success. Yet, even on the secular level I think w...

“Cheap optimism is never spiritual.” Never be satisfied or resign yourself to live with anything less than the full expression of God’s love...

The experiment is simple: Pick one thing in your life you wish to change. In meditation, see it passing physically from your hands to God’s....

When there is nowhere left to turn, turn around, for God is always there. When in the grips of fear, pray with a feather. When facing calami...

Though I had been an agnostic with an attitude into my 30’s, I had always been a seeker, often looking in the wrong places however. I looked...

We stake our claim to things everyday, usually without a thought. Whenever we start a statement with “My”, we claim ownership. Having though...

Ever board an airplane on a cloudy day? Remember how cool it was as you rose through the clouds, everything blanked out and then suddenly br...

“We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous and free. We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it was j...

The Universe is moved by demonstration. If we wish to be loved, first we need to demonstrate love. If we wish to be respected, first we nee...

Are you Living on the Spiritual Basis? If you have to think about it or are unsure, then no, you are not. There are many things in life were...

What more do you need to know? OK, how about this: I often chat with those espousing agnostic points of view. True atheists however are a di...

It is recommended to pray with a feather, gently, for prayer should never be hard work, it is our time to speak with God. If you are approac...

Everything is connected. The belief that a problem or difficulty exists in one place and must be brought to God in prayer is false. God is e...

A treatment is a prayer directed specifically at a definite subject, something that is a pressing problem. Unlike general prayers that are ...

Do you pray for yourself? Some hold that it is selfish and a waste of time to pray for ones self, but how could it be? Emmet Fox writes, “Pr...

The hen lays her eggs, and then keeps them warm and safe until they hatch. What would happen if half way through the process she decided to ...

If we have been consistent in applying spiritual principles, should we work harder, redouble our spiritual efforts when faced with a serious...

Do you have to “find” time to pray and meditate? Nothing is more important than our relationship with the Divine. Our relationship existed b...