Love

Does Fear Of Love Prevent Finding Happiness

27 December 2011

As your eyes focus on one point, but your peripheral vision takes in and registers so much more in your subconscious, so do all your senses, of smell, sounds, touch, and taste. Self-improvement as well as inner peace and happiness can only be found when the fear of love is eliminated. The fear stems from what [...]

How To Feel Love And Remove All Emotional Obstacles

23 November 2011

The Law of Opposites is unavoidable in our world. It simply states that for everything, its opposite must also exist. This applies to temperature; hot and cold, weight; heavy and light, and emotions; love and hate. This article is about Love. Unfortunately, being a human on earth, that means there has to be an opposite [...]

Why Spirituality Cannot Help You Overcome Your Issues

30 October 2011

Many people complain that their parents did things to them as a child which have negatively effected them emotionally as an adult. These emotional issues are based on the memories. The memories are real, but the reality today is that the problem is in fact just memories.   The problem is not that your parents [...]

love and Love

17 September 2011

The difference between love that fades and love that lasts is the latter is joined with sincere and worthy admiration.

Pressure Causes Stress, Resistance Causes Pressure

11 September 2011

This article will explain the cause of stress related to the pressures of life and how to eliminate the negative effects. Not only will that be explained, but you will also find how to use the pressure in a positive way. If you push on something, it resists being pushed. This applies to any material [...]

Why Can’t You Have Both

15 August 2011

I was asked a question; “I’m trying to find a way to balance having a relationship and achieve my goal. But I see I’ve failed to realise I cannot have both. Because my goal is also to be balanced my thinking is that I needed to have a relationship in order achieve this.” Why can’t [...]

What Makes You Be The Way You Are

20 June 2011

Many people want to find their true essential nature, their soul, but of course, that is a very rare discovery, at least it is if you are honest about it. I have another way of searching for that answer which is a bit simpler and perhaps answers more questions about why we are the way [...]

How To Love Yourself

30 May 2011

You cannot make yourself love yourself just as you cannot make yourself love another person. Loving yourself is a result, rather than a cause, of a changed personality. When you have rid yourself of qualities that you dislike or are no longer limited by fears and inhibitions, or you just happen to have a a [...]

How To Stop Being Hurt By Other People

15 February 2011

There is a saying, look to yourself for the cause and solution to all your problems. This is a very interesting saying because it has many meanings. The first is the obvious, to see what you have done wrong to cause the problem. This is easy to apply, see what you did and accept responsibility [...]

Emotions Are Contagious

11 October 2010

When one person laughs, everyone laughs. When someone cries, others cry. Emotions are felt sincerely indeed, but the question is what elicits the emotion? Are we feeling based on the event, or is it because someone else is expressing an emotion which then triggers our emotional response. I was at a funeral recently, the priest, [...]

It’s All About Love

31 August 2010

It is clear that an accepted belief these days is that all is love. That all things exist because of love. In Sufism, we say that God is love and out of God’s love all things have come into being. So nothing exists save love. It is also commonly accepted that very few people know [...]

How to Conquer Negative Energy Being Projected Towards You

13 June 2010

The subject of this article is about reacting to negative emotions. If you are affected by other peoples actions, that indicates that you care about what they think of you, you are not free. Certainly that is normal in our society, but is it normal for the real essence of a human being as opposed [...]

My Prayer

12 April 2010

You will notice that my articles vary in style and content. I assure you that I have written every word of what I publish, and if I take from another, I give them credit. What I write and post here is as much for you, the reader, as it is for me, to let my [...]

I Have Posted a New Book

21 January 2010

There is a new book on the books page. It is a collection of poetry and thoughts during my years as a monk living in the desert and travelling the world. It is free so help yourself. Just send me an email to request a copy. Thank you.

How To Find Satisfaction By Discovering What Is Missing In Your Relationship

15 December 2009

There is a nice story of two old friends, one who never married.  His friend asked one day, why he never found a wife.  John said that he did look, but there was always something.  One woman just could not cook well, another was too selfish, another was not a good homemaker.  On and on [...]

A Human Without Love Is Not a Human Being

11 November 2009

A human without love is not a human being. To live without loving is merely existing, it is a robots life. To be truly alive, to live, to feel, one must have someone to love. Love must be given to someone who can receive it for the lover to feel love. If love is given [...]

The Truth About Forgiveness, How To Really Forgive Permanently

1 October 2009

Forgiveness is a very popular concept. Everyone who is interested in self healing and personal development is talking about forgiveness and how that is being compassionate etc. However, many people find it difficult or impossible to truly forgive. Some people may think they have forgiven, but a little inquiry and you will find that they [...]

What Makes A Good Conversation

22 July 2009

There are two kinds of conversations, one with thought and the other without thought. We will not bother with anything that is without thought as that is just passing air. In conversations with thought, there are two kinds which appear similar but are very different, intellectual and intelligent. The intellectual just repeats information without adding [...]

The Secret And The Law Of Attraction

9 June 2009

There is a lot of talk about The Secret and the Law of Attraction. The basis of these now very popular programs is valid, however we can be certain that if these programs were effective on a larger percentage there would be a lot more rich and successful people out there. This brings up the [...]

Why People Do Not Know How To Feel

25 May 2009

What do you feel? The first thing that happens when asked this question is that you think about it. Then your mind goes in one direction and you think about that further. The moment thought or intellect comes into the question of feeling, imagination rises and feelings are distorted. The images that your imagination will [...]

What Makes The Foundation Of A Good Relationship

20 May 2009

Some Of My Thoughts About The Foundation Of A Good Relationship A good relationship is built on being able to have a good conversation rather than a strung together line of clichés and standard lines about any subject that are mere repetitions of what is common thought. Someone who thinks and says what they think [...]