It has been a while since I posted anything here, so to make up for my absence, I’m going to tell you everything I know in one short post. The rest is just details. The purpose of life is to become our true selves, to reflect the qualities of God in the world of creation […]
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Last week I had a spat with one of my customers that ended with them demanding more of a refund than I thought was justified or fair. I stewed over this conflict for hours over the course of several days. When the returned goods arrived with yet another snotty note and demand for payment, I
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The heaven of divine wisdom is illumined with the two luminaries of consultation and compassion. — Bahá’u’lláh Wisdom is the virtue that allows us to recognize what virtue is needed in any given situation. Put concisely, wisdom allows us to squeeze maximum spiritual gain out of minimum spiritual pain. It allows us develop our virtues
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The final book in the Longing series is now available — combining the complete text of my three previous books. It is a powerful tool for personal transformation. In The Secret of Emotions I explained how to understand the spiritual meaning behind our emotional sensations and offered a whole new vocabulary for understanding the language of the
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We all have faith in something. The question is whether we have faith that we will succeed, or faith that we will fail; faith that the world is a safe place, or faith that it is out to get us; faith that there is meaning to our lives or faith that the universe is a
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I finished the final editing of the third book in my series with a few days to spare. It is already available through Amazon, and I will be getting a supply in a few days to sell through my company. In other news, I’m continuing to get really touching reviews for The Secret of Emotions,
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If the idea that practicing virtues like gratitude can make us happy sounds more spiritual than scientific, you may be surprised to learn that the Positive Psychology Movement has some hard research to back up this claim. The best-known research is described in the book Authentic Happiness, by Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania.
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With Thanksgiving approaching, I thought now would be a good time to share my dieting secrets. I call this plan the sensational diet because instead of focusing on the kind of foods you are allowed to eat, it focuses on the kinds of sensations that eating food generates. You don’t have to be a hedonist
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I believe the most helpful step in forgiving is to receive validation that the injustice we are perceiving is real. From a purely practical standpoint, it is impossible to forgive an injustice that has not been identified as unjust. This is why it is so difficult to deal with dishonest and manipulative people. They are
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I know, blogs are for words, and pictures are for Pinterest, but I’ve illustrated some quotations from my new book and wanted to see how they looked here. This is the first sentence of The Secret of Emotions which is the first volume in the Love, Lust and the Longing for God series.
