Category: Psychology
The Sacrifice of Selfishness
In a world where literally billions of souls are struggling mightily on a daily basis, the singular journey of any one life does appear somewhat inconsequential; except, when measured through a…
The Long Arc of the Moral Universe
To view human evolution requires special glasses—ones that have the power to see across vast distances of time, to pierce through mountains of error and across caverns of apparent inertia. The…
The New Flowers of Ideas
Today the world abounds in the power and communication of ideas, thought and planning. They underpin the very fabric of human life on a global scale. Ideas translate into laws, political…
The Human Quest for Truth
May I be led from darkness to Light, from the unreal to the Real, from death to Immortality—so runs one of the earliest prayers known. In a few words, this appeal,…
The Theory of the Evolution of Light
The spiritual sciences teach that when life and form, or spirit and matter, are brought into close proximity, then light (the soul) appears, consciousness is born, and the long journey of…
Harmony, An Inevitable Achievement
That the world today is besieged by conflict, and that increasingly it is most visible on the mental plane in the “war of ideas”, is obvious. The fields of politics, culture,…
The Play of Duality
In an increasingly divided world, the ceaseless play of duality bears upon the weary human spirit. The spiritual and the material, the real and the unreal, and the progressive and the…
The Habit of Crisis
The long course of human evolution, which stretches back into the mists of time, has been frequently punctuated with periods of intense suffering and of acute distress. All of which have…
The Path of Love
One of the more challenging requirements of The Path of Love is the great lesson of impersonal-ness. Learning why and how to detach from all and everything in the world of…
My Journey to Tibet and Beyond
I have always felt that life is a journey. This is my story of how I became involved with the plight of the Tibetan people. Since my teens Tibet had always…