The key to self-mastery lies in learning to direct and hold your attention. From the Latin ad tendere—“to stretch toward”—attention is the act of consciousness reaching out. When you attend to something, you project a ray of your own life-force toward it. There forms a line of magnetic force between you and the object of [...]
What if the one skill that determines whether you awaken to your divine nature or remain trapped in limitation is something most people have never consciously developed? That skill is concentration. And I'm not talking about the kind of concentration you needed in school. I'm talking about something far more powerful: the fundamental creative force [...]
Most people live their lives making room for excuses. They shrink back, delay, and watch years slip by while the life they desire never materializes. But you are not most people. You are here to rise — to create a life so undeniable it silences doubt forever. This is not theory. This is command. For [...]
Here we go again. A new year has begun, and if you are like many others, you look at the beginning of a new year as the perfect impulse to set new year’s resolutions. So January 1st comes around, you enthusiastically set new year’s resolutions, follow through for a few days, and then, usually sooner [...]
We live in a world of energies and forces. One of the reasons why people are so tired and why they suffer burnouts is because we continually waste our forces. Uncontrolled thinking wastes our forces. When we allow our mind to wander off in all directions, we waste our forces. When we get irritated over [...]
Getting serious about self-discipline is one of the most important decisions you will ever make on the Spiritual path. It is certainly no coincidence that the words disciple and discipline sound so similar. They originate from the same root. Discipulus, in Latin, means student - and discere means to learn. It is only when the student begins to learn to discipline his [...]
Why do we so often not attain the goals we hope to achieve? Why do the affirmations we say, the visualizations we practice and the prayers we say so often seem to fail us? Well, one of the greatest obstacles to achieving our goals and realizing our heart's desires is not (yet) having mastered the art [...]
Life is a succession of beginnings. Every day, every hour, every moment in life, every one of us is confronted with new beginnings. Most beginnings appear small and insignificant, but if we think about it, nothing could be further from the truth, because everything that is starts with a beginning. The oak tree begins as [...]
Cities are busy places. Every man, woman and child on Earth carries their thoughts, emotions, desires, hopes and fears around with them, kind of like a second skin or mantle made of electromagnetic fibers. This electromagnetic mantle or field is the so-called aura. Now, most people - given our collective point in evolution and the [...]
Everyone has an opinion about everyone and everything. When we allow other people’s opinion of us to cause us to go up or down on the emotional roller coaster, we allow other people to cause our emotions. The goal is to be our own cause. When someone says that we don’t look good, for example, [...]
