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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I’m very pleased to announce that I will be giving an adult workshop at the Thunder Eagle Ridge youth retreat center in Missouri over the Labor Day Weekend on the subject of my book The Secret of Emotions. It will be an intimate and powerful weekend. The cost is low, the setting is beautiful,
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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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In my last book give-away over 600 people entered to win one of 200 copies of The Secret of Emotions. Now I am giving away 19 print copies of 4 Tools of Emotional Healing. Click here to go to Good Reads and enter. You will need to join Good Reads, but it is free. While
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Adapted from 4 Tools of Emotional Healing. How can faith help you control your impulses, delay gratification and make healthier decisions? Let me describe some recent research that sheds some interesting light on the connection. Researchers have known for decades that people who have trouble with controlling their impulses, or delaying gratification have a much
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In case you haven’t heard, the second book in my Love, Lust and the Longing for God series is now available. 4 Tools of Emotional Healing and The Secret of Emotions are both now available in paperback and as KINDLE editions at Amazon, at InterfaithResources and at BahaiResources for instant download. Thank you, also to
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