We create our own life experiences through the millions of choices, large and small, that we make every day, year after year. These choices are often made unconsciously and are based on our core beliefs about ourselves, others, and life. The problems in our lives and in our relationships are created from our self-defeating core [...] Read more »

Clear thinking gives you power. Clarity allows you to transcend confusion, ambiguity, and ambivalence. Clarity is the awareness of priorities, a recognition of what is important. By its nature clarity helps give you the impetus to act. A clear understanding of what is right and needed opens the door to positive action. Clear thinking is [...] Read more »

If you would observe yourself non-judgementally for a day, you would be amazed! Your perception of yourself and of others would automatically be changed for the better. If such positive change can be achieved so simply, why don’t more people do it? Actually self-observation is not easy to do. This is because of the shame [...] Read more »

What you see in people determines how you will respond. Most people allow the attitudes, actions, and feelings of others to determine their response. If you allow your responses to be determined by another, you are robbing yourself of your personal freedom. You automatically prevent yourself from doing what is truly in your heart. If [...] Read more »

Loneliness is a fact of life. Loneliness is not just the result of being alone. It can be felt while with another or with many. Loneliness is the resulting experience of separation from the self. Until you have learned to connect continuously with your essential Self, you are prone to loneliness. Most deal with loneliness [...] Read more »

True friendship can be the highest form of human relationship. True friendship can be found among lovers and platonic relationships alike. All true friendships must be based on a shared vision that is higher in purpose than the individuals themselves. The vision should include mutual support for search for the essential Self. The vision must [...] Read more »

What a wonderful gift we have been given in being alive and what secrets we can uncover about ourselves. Every new experience is a new opportunity to learn something about ourselves and our world. One of the most wonderful secrets each of us has to uncover is our greatness. You have a greatness within you, [...] Read more »

When I was twelve years old I learned a powerful lesson about discipline that has lasted my entire lifetime. Up ’til then I had regarded discipline as some kind of punishment. “You must discipline yourself!” meant to me, “You must punish yourself.” I knew that discipline was important to learn because my parents told me [...] Read more »

Your defenses are your way of surviving in the world. Many of your defenses are actually helpful and allow you to function in a way that keeps you safe and healthy. However, many of your defenses are self-defeating and prevent you from getting what you really want in life. All of your defenses were designed [...] Read more »

All change in your life begins within you. Your desire for something to be better can put into action the elements necessary for change. In relationships remember that you cannot change another, only yourself. By changing yourself, your attitudes, thoughts, and feelings, you can automatically indirectly encourage change in another without them ever knowing. This [...] Read more »