Reflection: On a very deep, core level we are a point of awareness in a universe of bliss and compassion. But we don't stay in paradise very long. Being awareness gives way to self awareness which in turn gives birth to personhood. We are now a self with the need...

Reflection: Who are we? We know we are flesh and blood with about 3 pounds of material we call the brain. It is capable of running our body, including generating thoughts and awareness, in particular self-awareness.

Self-awareness is a very mysterious phenomenon. How is it that matter can be...

Reflection: We watch the migration of animals with a strange fascination - from delicate Monarch butterflies to giant Gray whales. Their travels echo the mysterious drawing within each of us, not to north or south, but to the moment when love and awareness meet. Here eternity springs forth. It...

Reflection: Mom became like the sweetness of the chocolates she would eat. The dementia her sculptor, releasing the angel within, chiseling away memories, opinions, and beliefs until only her gentle presence remained. With personality stripped away, personhood shown more clearly -- loving awareness.

The death of a loved one,...

Reflection: Mom became like the sweetness of the chocolates she would eat. The dementia her sculptor, releasing the angel within, chiseling away memories, opinions, and beliefs until only her gentle presence remained. With personality stripped away, personhood shown more clearly - loving awareness.

The death of a loved one,...

Reflection: Our goal: To know our self as awareness, allowing us to live in greater freedom and peace. The ego will no longer be who we are. Instead it will become an expression of our true self -- compassionate, blissful awareness. We engage in two types of activities: 1....

Where is this self that demands so much time and attention, fixing and cajoling, encouraging and pampering? Where is this self of tragedy and drama, soap opera and love song? Is it only a phantom -- merely a stream of thoughts and sense impressions triggering memories and habits, hopes and...

In this exercise we continue to consciously observe the present moment of sensory experience (see previous exercise: I am Silent Awareness). This gives us a moment of life we can analyze. Our analysis focuses on the one doing the sensing. We use the moment as a mirror to see...

Sunlight travels over 91 million miles and then with less than a mile to go, blocked by a cloud. You are compassionate awareness radiating blissful love and then with less than a moment to go, blocked by a thought.

Much of our spiritual sculpting to release the angel within (...

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." - Michelangelo

"In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough...

Merging the feeling of compassion with your self- awareness creates a doorway into the deeper reality you are - compassionate awareness. When you are in touch with your identity on this level your deepest desires become a reliable inner voice of discernment. They guide you in your choices and decisions,...

Finding Your Original Voice in Your Expressions of Bliss, Love, and Consciousness

We want love because we are love; yearn for happiness and joy because we are bliss. We want to be alive and aware, filled with the pleasures of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch because we are consciousness....

Life is not about becoming a more loving person or finding the love of your life, but instead coming to know and express the love you already are. It is not a matter of becoming a more compassionate person, but living a life reflective of the fact you are...