Living In Spirit

       When we take offense at every trifling thing in life, becoming angry and outraged at clerks, customer service reps, waiters and waitr...

      “You can have either your demonstration or your indignation, but you cannot have both.”   We cannot look down our nose and salute the ...

      What is perfection? A child’s laugh, a spring day, the family gathered together for the holidays, a content cat, chocolate, all of the...

        When we first begin our spiritual journey in earnest, specific and ritualized spiritual practices are important fundamentals. As we ...

       Regularly unfortunate stories appear where someone has suffered because a simple clerical mistake occurred resulting in untold grief....

        The pitfall of self-righteousness has trapped and pulled down countless individuals. In most endeavors in life when we reach the top...

        “Never try to force other people to accept spiritual truth.”   No one, absolutely no one will permanently accept anything crammed d...

         Never turn away from anyone seeking help or guidance. Part of the progression in our spiritual growth is the rise in our natural or...

      Salt of the earth, don’t hear that expression used very often anymore. As a child when someone was referred to as being “the salt of t...

          Christ. Other than God, is there any word that evokes more passion in believers and non-believers alike? The spiritual concept of ...

       What do you believe? People believe in all sorts of things. Conspiracy theories of all kinds abound, aliens in the White House, Elvis...

                “The truth will set you free.”   Ever watch a bird floating on a current of air or with practiced grace winging its way with...

          “The universe is run exactly on the lines of a cafeteria.” Just as the self serve cafeteria, all of the gifts that Our Father’s ...

               Whenever we are in the grip of fear we are off the “beam.” Fear is a basic emotion and just as the three basic colors: yellow...

        Ever been to a tide pool or salt marsh?  The tide pool is regularly refreshed by the influx of new water while the salt marsh remain...

         Easy does it! Work hard but don’t make hard work of it. Has worry or being so tense a loud noise makes you jump ever improved or ...

           Step on a crack and break your mama’s back, three on a match, a dead man’s shoes, break a mirror, black cat crossing your path, s...

Ivory: the temptation of attachment and sacred cows. All teachers, books, houses of worship are tools to assist us on the path of enlighten...

            What do you believe? A double minded man is unstable in all his ways (James 1:8). Is there a bookshelf full of once read spirit...

       Who has not heard, or some variation of, the quote: For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, t...

          Living by spiritual principles is not easy, no news flash there, and unfortunately many that do disagree on the path. Constructive...

   “When you raise your head above the crowd, you place a target on your back.”   Ever toss out a casual comment concerning a sports team o...

 “We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace.”  Serenity : calm and untroubled: without worry, stress, or disturbance. ...

         In contemplation some years ago I began thinking on the “enlightened” teachers of the East and elsewhere. Initially the thought was...

           It is a curious thing, the first person to offer money advice, often unsolicited, is someone who has never had any. Relationship ...

      In truth, there is only one power, all else illusion, that power God. If you are struggling with your conception of God, set aside any...

         The concept of a pure heart can be troubling, unless we possess the spiritual key. Once a heart has been touched by loss, sin, suff...

          To show mercy to those in pain, whether physical or emotional, is of course a quality to be cultivated. But how merciful are our t...

           Righteous. This word has been married with “self” so often that if someone is  righteous it has a seemingly negative connotation,...

      It is difficult to think of Moses and not picture in our minds eye Charlton Heston standing with arms raised, staff in hand, robes flo...

          The meek shall inherit the earth . To be meek, spiritually, is to be so raised in consciousness that we are open to God, demonstr...

Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth (Matthew 5:5) well now, on the surface this seems to make little sense. We all have ...

          Mourning to excess is destructive. Many have stopped living themselves when a loved one has passed, literally hoping for their own...

         Have you inventoried your “great possessions”? We all have them and until we identify them and understand their roots they can beco...

        There is probably no more misunderstood passage in the Sermon on the Mount than “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the k...

"Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed...

         You could “Burn all the books, for the answers are all here.” The books written on how to become a different person, to change, to ...

            Demonstration versus theory. Generals create battle plans, their theory on how the battle should be fought and won. Politicians ...

         I can’t imagine a topic to comment on that could be less rife with controversy or strong emotion. Just looking at it I can hear the...

      We have all had “miracles” happen in our lives. That time we needed money and the phone rang or a letter arrived and source was provid...

MIRACLE n. 1. An act or event that seems to transcend or contradict all known natural or scientific laws and is usually thought to be super...

         Head to heart, from letter to spirit. The journey from one to the other is the longest 18 inches in the world. When I began questio...

           On the old maps when a mapmaker would reach the end of what was known they would often write “There Be Dragons” to denote the unk...

       We all know someone, might even be someone who signs our name, who has a shelf full of self help/spiritual books. Now, they probably ...

         This is at the heart of Living on the Spiritual Basis. Having learned and embraced the truth that God is the only real power, that ...

          We are constantly treating everything in our lives by our thinking, if we believe we are defeated, we are. We are asking for failu...

Emotion is your friend. Get overly emotional about everything. Be outraged not only at perceived slights directed at you but at everyone els...

             Watch for trends and as soon as a new one starts, jump on board. It doesn’t matter whether or not the trend appeals to you, jus...