Welcome to the second phase of the Spiritual New Year! The Festival of the Buddha is upon us now in this month of May, and we celebrate the life and teachings of this Great One at the Wesak Festival in a worldwide meditation…
If we are to create equality and fairness in our society, then it must be created across the board. There is nowhere in our society where a lack of fairness is so clearly seen than in our justice system itself. We know that society needs to…
In times of great change, it is understandable we would have doubts about our ability to make the correct decisions. Our acquired wisdom, however, suggests that we have always somehow gotten through. So, why not keep going…
To surrender is simply to allow. To allow is simply to let go. My friends, you must know today, the act of surrender indicates no defeat on your part. I tell you, with all my heart and understanding, letting go, and allowing something else to…
Welcome all to the Spiritual New Year! As many of you probably already know, from a higher spiritual perspective, the beginning of the new year happens with the Spring Equinox at the end of March. Yes, it is a time of beginnings…
My friends, is it possible to maintain a high level of integrity with the chaos we see before us? I will tell you, we must. For a long time on the path, we continue to compare ourselves to others and what is happening in the outer world…
The Christ and the Buddha. They are two of the greatest Spiritual Teachers to have ever been involved with the evolution of humanity and the world in which we live. My friends, these Spiritual Beings are brothers of ours. They have been…
OK, my friends, we need to be very clear about the conditions that are in front of us today in the United States of America. We had every hope that our institutions would follow the Constitution and do the right thing on our behalf…
Behold! It’s an old word, fallen out of use for quite some time now. To me, it’s kind of a strange word. It almost has a mysterious or magical quality to it. Technically, it means to look upon or gaze upon. To “behold”, then, is to “see”…
All for One and One for All! This idea, this potential reality, is at the core of the United States Constitution. But, my friends, what does this phrase really mean to us? Well, there is only one thing we need to understand about what it…
