Must the Spiritual Path Be Difficult?

Many people get seduced into thinking that by walking a spiritual path they will obtain some sort of divine protection from anything that is too difficult and too painful. The fact is, the spiritual path is difficult. No matter how you slice it, it comes up difficult.

It’s good to know this from the [...]

One Small Step

By Rebecca Traver

During periods of prolonged dissatisfaction in our lives we can put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make poorly strategized or ill-timed changes in an effort to simply get it over with. Or we settle. If we do come to realize beyond any reasonable doubt that something needs to shift, we [...]

Motivation & the Anxious Mind

By Jennie Marlow

In my last post, Vision That Serves Us, I describe ways we might put our vision in service of what is practical.  In this post, I’ll begin a discussion about our motivation for what we desire, and how this can dramatically alter our approach to creating our lives and how effective we [...]

Resolutions

By Jennie Marlow

Yeah, it’s the New Year. Of course, I am thinking ahead to what I’d like to change in the coming months. And so, I was entertaining the meaning of the word, resolution, specifically, what it means to resolve something like a dilemma or a long-standing problem, or to be resolute in our [...]

Truth, Faith & the Spiritual Journey

By Rebecca Traver

People are always asking the guides, “What is my path?” and not everyone is thrilled with the answer they receive. “Your path is to overcome fear in this lifetime, so that you can create your life from your desire to experience essence. This is your only path. There isn’t another one.”

When seekers [...]

The Human Animal

By Carol Aubrey

What makes us buckle under when we feel the pressure of fear? Survival fears have prompted homo-sapiens to make millions of out-of-power choices. For centuries we have reacted to fear by engaging in unreasonable and often horrific, animalistic acts of aggression and domination.  Why does our intelligence, our compassion, our common sense get [...]

Just a thought…

By Janice Hylton

I think I understand why we cannot miss an opportunity –  why it holds true that “what’s for you won`t pass you.” All that comes toward us comes from within us. We create our reality consciously and unconsciously. We don’t attract what we want; we attract what we are. [...]

Stumbling Down the Path

Lately I have found myself in some challenging circumstances. Aging parents with various accompanying scenarios have occupied much of my time and most of my thought. And to my disappointment, I have not been at my best. I have watched myself pushing energy all over the place — insisting I’ve got the answers; worrying endlessly about imagined, future scenarios; doing all the talking and none of the listening.

The Map and the Territory

By Rebecca Traver

“There are some interesting parallels between being a tourist and living a life upon the Earth. First, the minute you get here, you have no doubt that you are in a place that is totally foreign to you. Second, you have arrived with a lot of baggage, namely your biological contract to [...]