The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.

The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

A fully functioning employee with a healthy self-image is money in the bank.

Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness of the individual is like a flame that burns through the night. It is not the same flame over time, yet neither is it another flame.

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

Health and disease don't just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of consciousness, our ability or inability to flow with experience. This recognition carries with it implicit responsibility and opportunity.