Teachings

Most of our suffering comes from living in fear. All suffering on Earth, whether it’s inside us or out in the world, starts with fear. The only way to end suffering, in body and in mind, is to start living from love, toward ourselves and toward others. Helping you make that change is my deepest hope for this website.

What you do to someone else, you do to yourself. You can’t escape the results of your actions, or pretend that hurting someone else won’t affect you. As the saying goes, “what goes around, comes around.” Whatever we put out into the world, good or bad, eventually comes back to us.

Thoughts are real things. Every fearful feeling, whether it’s judgment, hatred, resentment, anger, guilt, or anything else, starts with a thought. To rise above fear, start by changing your thoughts. The psychologist Carl Jung taught that, deep down, we all share one mind. That means our own thoughts affect everyone, and the world we see is a reflection of what all of us are thinking together. So change your thoughts, and you change the world.

We badly need a spiritual way of seeing life to solve our problems. Notice that I didn’t say “religious.” In my view, religion hasn’t solved most of our problems, and it has often caused even more suffering. That doesn’t mean every religion is bad, or that God doesn’t exist. It means there’s a deeper spiritual part inside each of us that can help us find the answers.

If you’re on this website, you have an open mind, and I encourage you to keep it that way. Some people enjoy making others suffer. You see this in people with severe personality disorders, the psychopaths, sociopaths, and narcissists. No one can study horrors like the Holocaust or other genocides without seeing that something deeply evil is at work. I’ve spent a lot of time studying evil. It’s real, whether you believe it or not, and it’s time we admit it.

It’s time for spiritual people to step up. Nothing will change unless the people who live these values actually act on them here on Earth. There’s a time to work on yourself and heal what’s holding you back inside, and then there’s a time to speak up and be a light to the world. Our main job isn’t to convince anyone. It’s to offer another way of living, different from the way things are now. How you do that is up to you, and whether people listen isn’t your concern. But it’s time for all of us to step up and give it everything we’ve got.