Seeing the spiritually lost state, the interior bankruptcy of other human beings can be used to accelerate your own relationship with the Divine, but only if you understand that you are not on this earth to judge the nature of others, but to transcend it.

Here is the real reason why so very few ever realize a conscious relationship with the Divine: true spiritual union is consummated only through a growing awareness of one’s inner poverty; in acknowledging its actual estate, one’s soul gradually matures into an ever-deepening humility that — since “the beginning” was — and is — created to…

Higher love, the kind of unconditional patience and tenderness that heals old wounds, that helps us to be compassionate, kind, encouraging, and forbearing of our partner’s limitations, is a choice we must make not just every day, but in every moment with everyone we know. It’s a practice we must choose or we will lose…

We are all on an endless journey, being perfectly guided by love to realize a perfect partnership… not just with the one we love, but with Love itself that wants only to perfect us. This June, during the summer solstice, sincere aspirants from around the world will meet for a 5-day intensive workshop in Merlin,…

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