My dear friends...

You are so wonderful to come here to this publication, and to be reading it. Do you know why? Because your decision to read this material says that you are willing to change your life and change the world.

That’s what Conversations with God is all about, when you think about it. The reason that this material was given to us was to change our lives, and to change our world. God knows that this task is accomplished one person at a time—and right now, that one...

My dear friends...

Isn’t it wonderful to be in a community of like-minded, spiritually oriented people such as the one that has formed around the messages of Conversations with God and the New Spirituality?  CwG itself talks about this, and speaks to the notion of Collective Consciousness affecting and changing the world.  It also speaks about “giving people back to themselves,” and how best we can all do that.

That is our work here on this planet, I firmly...

My dear friends...

When I was in the midst of the worst period of my life, I asked myself over and over again, “Why is this happening to me?”   

I did not understand then what I understand now.  My awareness had not expanded.  I was feeling frustrated.  I was feeling angry.  I was feeling betrayed by life itself.  Fortunately, I listened to these feelings.  I did not ignore them.  Feelings are the language of the soul.  They tell...

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Last week I made a statement here that survival is the instinct that drives the engine of the human experience. I said I would continue that discussion this week. I want to say now that this instinct is not our basic instinct, it is simply the instinct that drives the engine of the human experience for most of us.

A few years ago a handful of extraordinary men revealed to us, once again, what our basic instinct is. And it is not “survival.”

They knew going...

My dear friends...

We began a discussion here about what I’ve called The Fractured Self. We looked at how we sometimes split ourselves into two or three different people, just to please the world, just to “get along,” and sometimes, to be truthful, just to get something that we want, and so, to please ourselves.

Then we talked about what it would take to put our Fractured Selves back together again. And the first thing we began focusing on was...honesty.

One thing...

My dear friends...

We spoke in this space last week about “unfracturing the Self.” In that entry I made the statement that life is meant to be happy, and there really should be no reason for it to be otherwise.

I added that certainly, there is no reason for life to be an experience of ongoing unhappiness. But when we are living as fractured people, trying to serve two masters and three agendas and four different thoughts that four different people have about who they think we...

My dear friends...

It seems to me that life continues to be an unfolding mystery for nearly everyone. There have been, and are now, true Masters holding all the answers, knowing every solution, and living life in ongoing peace and harmony (no matter what was or is happening). So we know that reaching such a level of personal and spiritual development is possible. Indeed, we have been promised this by every great religion. Still, I have seen very few people achieve it “in a flash.”...

My dear friends...

In Friendship with God I asked a very direct question --- and received a very direct answer. I would like to share with you that exchange...

Can’t You say something about gays? I have been asked over and over again, at lectures and appearances and retreats all over the world: won’t You say something to end once and for all the violence and cruelty and discrimination against gays? So much of it is done in Your name. So much of it is said to be justified by Your...

My dear friends...

For the past many weeks we have been speaking here about The Holy Experience. I want to invite you to avoid developing preconceived notions about what that Experience is all about, or what it is supposed to “look like.”

It may not be about feeling “filled with the light” or “warm all over” or “One With The Universe.” It could be about that, but it also may not be.

It may not be about only speaking softly and always moving...

My dear friends...

I spoke in this space last week about the fact that loneliness is the biggest social issue on our planet today. I said that we’ve been living in a world of increasing isolation, where extended families have been disappearing and the opportunities for closeness with others have been vanishing. The sudden rise and almost addictive use of social networking sites on the Internet by millions around the globe is, without doubt, humanity’s collective compensatory...