Who Is God and How Can We Find and Relate to Him? How Can We Know His Will?
I know that many visitors to my site are searching for answers and are hungry for truth. Many want to start over again. Many want to let go of baggage from the past.
But above all, many people have questions about God, and the the most important ones of all--how can I find Him? Does God Care? Will He Forgive Me?
And so, I want to once again mention my book Becoming a Friend of God - Finding Courage and Peace of Mind in an Age of Anxiety.
Yes, I do some advising here. I chat with people and exchange emails.
But ultimately you've got to do the work of getting better spiritually yourself. I can't do it for you. Nor can anyone else.
I've been on the radio for almost 22 years. Would you believe that many people have benefited greatly from my lectures, books, and meditation without ever having talked or chatted with me personally? Some have been helped and are grateful, and they check in every few months with a card and a donation. I've never talked to them, yet I have helped them refind their spiritual roots.
My point is that you can actually gain benefit from listening to the free audio of my radio programs, from practicing the meditation, and from reading my books without becoming dependent on me.
If you meditate, listen and read my writings with the right spirit, you will become progressively freer.
Recommended reading: Becoming a Friend of God - finding peace of mind and courage in an age of anxiety the Kindle edition.
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Anyway, this
book Becoming a Friend of God is an excellent book and it just might answer some of the deep questions you have about God and about relating to Him. CONTENTS
The Secret to Life.................................................... 4
Becoming a Friend of God: Understanding and
Resolving Your Inner Conflicts ..............................7
The Magic of Self Observation in the Meditative
State....................................................................... 14
Spiritual Recovery – How Do I Wipe the Slate
Clean and Start Over Again .................................. 21
Finding the Way Back from Corruption to
Innocence..............................................................29
How to Stop Reacting to Pressure........................ 38
The Spiritual Side of Life ......................................52
The Secret to a Stress-Free Life............................ 66
Awareness, The Secret to Real Recovery..............69
Starting Over Again ..............................................77
Spiritual Recovery From Drug Addiction............. 82
All About Impatience............................................ 85
Understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder .. 92
Be Ye Not Conformed to the World ....................117
How Do We Know There is a God Who Cares
About Us?.............................................................122
A Listener Asks ....................................................125
Quietly Work Out Your Own Salvation...............132
Repentance: The Happy Sad Emotion of the
Blessed .................................................................135
The Road to Spiritual Recovery: Giving Up
Resentment and Hostility ....................................138
How to Become Free Indeed...............................144
Back to Basics: Spiritual Recovery ......................149
Overcoming Resentment and Its Traumas.........154
Another Look at Faith..........................................158
The “How” of Spiritual Recovery, Part 1 ............163
The How of Spiritual Recovery, Part 2................168
The Secret to a Stress-Free Life...........................183
What, Me Worry? How to Stop Struggling ..........186
Is Food Your Secret Lover and Enabler ..............195
Why Practice the Meditation Exercise ............... 200
The Secret to Life is in Response ....................... 203
The Way of Wisdom.............................................213
Meditation and Anger Management ...................216
Meditate to Move With the Right Energy .......... 220
An excerpt from Chapter One:
The Secret to Life
Some people will go to the ends of the earth to find
enlightenment. But the truth is that it can be found in
your own back yard. In the wonderful children's story
The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy looked for happiness in far
away places. But at the end of her adventures, she
discovered that happiness would be back in her home
in Kansas.
I've said it a thousand times, but I'll say it again:
conscience is your closest link to God. Enlightenment
is discovering, and then living in God's Light of Truth.
It shines within, but we have all fallen away from it into
the ersatz reality of the imagination. We live in thinking
and fantasy, and submerge ourselves in emotions.
When we are lost in thinking, we are separated from
the Light. This Light is intuition: a way of knowing
without words. For example, sometimes you just see
injustice, or sometimes you get a sense that something
is not right about someone. When you heed the
wordless warning of intuition, you are protected and
safe. Other times you may have been delicately nudged
in a certain direction that was right for you, and you
ended up where you belonged, doing what was right for
you. This wordless knowing is intuition--your soul
perceiving and knowing in the light. When you obey
this guidance without images or words, it leads you
safely to where you are supposed to be.
But we are all led astray by temptation, tease and
challenge on the outside. We doubt our intuition and
listen to the loud voice of the worldly tempters. These
tempters, who come in various guises, tempt you to be
ambitious, to study, to grab for knowledge. If you are
not the ambitious type, then they mock, ridicule, and
ostracize you. They make you feel like the ugly
duckling, and your resentment of them then tempts you
to prove something to them or grab for what you have
been denied.
For worldly approval, we cop out. But this puts us in
conflict with intuition. Deep down we sense in a
wordless way that living and moving and having our
being in a simple guileless way will permit us to be our
real self. And deep down we also know (though we
doubt it) that all the blessings and benefits, true success
and prosperity (without guilt) can be had by living
properly and not being ambitious.
We all have to learn our lesson. Years later, we
discover that we turned our back on our true lodestar.
We groan and mourn our errors and wrongs. We want
to turn back and return to honor, simplicity, innocence,
and courage. We want to live rightly. We want a second
chance to be a good husband, wife, son, daughter,
parent or friend. Like Dorothy, we want to go back to
Kansas, but we don't know how.
Luckily there is a way back. It involves once again
grasping with firm conviction the beautiful truths you
once knew and loved as a child. It means standing for
principle, even if it means losing the favor of the world.
Most of all, it means realizing that what now feels like
conscience is God's Light of Truth still delicately
pursuing you to gently call you back. It only feels like
conscience, instead of intuition, because you strayed
from in and have conflict with it. Give in to conscience,
and your soul will begin to be purged, and you will be
on your way back to all the good you ever hoped for. It
begins right here and now as you read these words.
You can purchase the book in a quality paperback edition. I don't know about you, but I like actually holding a book in my hands and then seeing it on my bookshelf.
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Becoming a Friend of God - finding peace of mind and courage in an age of anxiety.
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