Why do we want so badly to change the world? Because we long for paradise, or even just a temporary retreat from the madness. We want the darkness of this world to end so that peace, love, justice, and kindness might reign.

But can we really ask more of the world than what it is? I don’t think so. From my perspective, the world is not dark. It is filled with so much beauty and perfection that it cannot be fully experienced in 1,000 lifetimes. There is so much light, so much color, so much warmth, mostly balance, the right amount of excitement, and pervasive beauty available to all the senses. It is all here, surrounding us right now. Even human beings, if looked upon in this light, are the most magnificent creation of all.

Where anything is wrong, it is that we have retreated from the natural state of beauty into the darkness of our own minds. We have assumed our own fictitious stories and identities, and have withdrawn into our own darkness. Yes, we have been conditioned unjustly and led astray; but this tragic outcome is nothing more than an individual choice for each of us.

Why do we claim to want light when we have sought only darkness and have cared only about the darkness? The end of this tragic error starts now.

What I call the light is life, which is experienced as the energy of love. Its energy pervades the world and it is what we are. We are innocent, the doors of this so-called prison are wide open, and we need only take a single step toward the light. See only the light within and without—be only that, ignoring all else because nothing else has any reality.

I think I've reached a point, for what it's worth...
No longer fueled by wild dreams
Forbidden passions
Nothing more to want or to imagine different from this
Right here
Right now

It's not that I'm resolved, self-limited, or have given up
It's just, I think I've reached a point
For what it's worth...

That I've lived all those dreams
Felt all those passions
Tried to change the world
Lived around it
Fought hopeless battles
Done everything that every ego does
Then found self-love
For what it's worth...

Now I have no wild dreams
No forbidden passions
No guilt or shame
But greet everything that happens
Without any judgement of good or bad 
As reality unfolding

To light it up with perfect love
Always honest
Without fear
No desire for the present moment
To be any different
From how it is

To have lost myself
To find who I really am
I think I've reached that point
For what it's worth...

That I can barely remember
All the reasons why
In this world
I do not fit

The dimension of calm joy
Is where I now live

Know that everything Trump speaks about in the end is the plan not just for America, but for all countries of the world. The plan is playing out and the end is soon.

It is always difficult to see in advance, but looking back, I see it clearly. Everything that happened in my life which first appeared as disaster was, in reality, good.

Things happen in life which seem dreadful at first. Obvious failures. Embarrassments. Financial struggles. Losing a job or customer. Getting sick. Breakups. Divorce. Losing access to a child. Even more dreadful things, or so it would seem.

The ego always tries to understand, to control, to analyze, to solve, to avoid, to figure out. The ego’s goal is to extend your past sense of identity to the future—to ensure that you remain comfortable in thought-continuity and that nothing changes. When something happens in the present to threaten this objective, the ego panics. You become fearful and feel hopeless.

But faced with any reality, you eventually adapt. You face it. You accept it. You move on from your new, changed position. Better yet, you bring unconditional love, acceptance, forgiveness, and present moment awareness to the challenge. You trust in reality—allowing it to be as it is.

Then, one day long after the required changes have occurred, you remember the old situation in relation to your current state. You realize the changes were necessary and good. Everyone and everything is better now.

Good always prevails because reality is good. What we experience as suffering or crisis is only truth emerging from what was previously false. We can learn to observe the mind. Smile at our thoughts even in the face of disaster, knowing the deeper truth—which can never be understood in advance.

This is probably my most popular talk. Worth re-posting.

When the ego attempts to embrace religion or spirituality, it does so without examining itself. The unobserved mind picks and chooses pieces of the belief system that it finds compatible with its preferences. The false identity is then strengthened by judging and condemning others who believe differently.

To the ego, a spiritual teaching is not necessarily taken as wisdom to be lived by; rather, as a strange magic. The rituals, the words, the crystals—whatever it may be—are believed to summon mysterious, divine powers to solve problems and deliver us to heaven. So much is asked in prayer, yet all the answers (which are already contained within the spiritually alive teachings) are misunderstood or ignored.

To awaken is to lose faith in magic…to become willing to live in truth. But the ego will not allow your salvation to occur. To do so would be to look at itself honestly. That would be its death and no entity would choose its own demise. Hence, for you to be saved, the ego must be allowed to die.

The true power of any spiritual faith only flows into your life when you live according to God’s reality, universal law—when you align with nature itself. The end of suffering, the New Earth, and eternal life is only possible for those willing to turn away from the devil—which is only another word for ego.

Look not at the words and rituals, but to what they teach…to where they point. Live the lesson literally to dissolve problems and to end suffering. The lesson is unconditional love, forgiveness, fearlessness, humility, honesty. Be present. Be love.