Living In Spirit

Day 6 of the diet: Hang in there, only 1 more day to go. Then again, you may be experiencing such profound changes in your outlook that you...

Day 5 of the diet: …God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him (1 John 4:16). Today, attempt to greet every...

Day 4 of the 7 day mental diet : Consider the analogy: “A man is sitting by an open fire when a red hot cinder flies out and falls on his sl...

Day 3 : Having fun yet? The diet maybe simple, but it certainly is not easy. Continue to be vigilant, watching for morbid reflection, negati...

Day 2 of Diet : If you are still considering whether to attempt this diet, take a moment in quiet contemplation and ask yourself why? What...

TO ALL MEMBERS: Greetings On Our 10th Christmas 1944 Yes, it's in the air! The spirit of Christmas once more warms this poor distraugh...

“Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you.” Regardless of circumstances in your life, bless all and remember the ...

Possibly the hardest spiritual direction of all is “to be still.” We have done all the indicated work regarding a difficulty or trouble that...

Our consciousness is unsullied at birth; we are pure in spirit, our Divine connection immaculate. As we age and mature, our consciousness be...

Living on the Spiritual Basis requires rigorous honesty. Ever tell a “fish” story? You know the voice, the one that adds a few inches to or ...

“When you pray you are turning to the power of God and surely you will admit that God is omnipotent, and therefore nothing can be too diffic...

Today’s teaching revolves around the 4th step of the 12-step process of spiritual awakening first delineated in the book Alcoholics Anonymou...

“It is not when things are going well that we make our progress. It is not even when things are going wrong and yet we feel sure that we ca...

Living on the Spiritual Basis our points of reference, the things that used to interest us alters. Typically, this happens with little or no...

“Half measures avail us nothing.” Recently the world changed, well recent in a generational sense. It happened over the last 60 years. Onc...

A few years ago, a show aired chronicling the Dalai Lama. Part of the broadcast consisted of a number of “famous” people relating the effect...

You cannot have peace of mind and engage in gossip. You cannot have tranquility and be harried. You cannot have love and practice hatred. Yo...

Often well-intentioned folks will admonish knowingly “be careful what you pray for, you may get it.” The comment is generally followed with ...

Consistent effort and practice is required if we wish to demonstrate spiritually. Mere mental assent has little lasting affect unless it is ...

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in e...

We look in the mirror and the evidence is undeniable, so we decide something needs to be done. We embark on a diet and/or an exercise progra...

Attending recovery meetings exposes one to a variety of half-truths, some innocuous, others potentially deadly. They all share the common tr...

Consider the spiritual meaning of the concept of I AM. The I AM concept teaches that man is the image and likeness of God, that we manifest ...

Don’t Hurry. Don’t Worry. Don’t Condemn. Don’t Resent. Pretty straightforward, what more is there to know? Ok, maybe a little. Hur...

The foundational principle of reaping and sowing is at the heart of Living on the Spiritual Basis, unfortunately, many pay it nodding accept...

When we recite prayers by rote, without infusing them with feeling, the results are negligible. All prayers and meditations are visits with...

We all are afflicted with the “false witness” voice in our consciousness. When it chimes in it never brings good or positive news, it strive...

The term “reborn” has been employed poorly if not down right incorrectly so often that its true meaning and correct application has been los...

“The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.” When FDR said this in his first inaugural address, the country was in the grip of the grea...

Remember what it says on the dollar bill in your pocket? “In God We Trust.” Do you? When we give from a sense of fear, we miss the point of ...

One of the most straightforward ways of demonstrating our spiritual fitness is by how much we give, in riches and of ourselves. That disheve...

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...