Wise people are humble about what they think they know and what they don’t know. They see the larger picture and realize that their minds are limited, their senses can report false information, and just because someone said it is so, maybe it isn’t.


Unfortunately, it’s the people who “know” they know all the answers that create the most suffering on this planet. Obviously, all the evil dictators that oppress and slaughter people “know they know” and will kill or torture anyone who doubts it. The wise person, understands ideas such as relativity and what is just a matter of opinion. The person who knows is inflexible and righteous in his puffed up egotism.


Certain oppressive groups of people “know” that women don’t have the capacity to be educated, that showing an ankle is a mortal sin punishable by public stoning, that certain races should be eradicated, and that singing and dancing is a sin that will take you straight to hell. This so-called knowledge is nothing but received, unexamined prejudice based on fear and dominance.


Wise people have the broad insight to see the beauty of natural individuality. They have a rich and vivid life of the imagination, spirit, and intellect. They don’t believe anything just because someone in authority said it. They examine things for themselves and come to their own conclusions. While knowledge is set in stone, wisdom is fluid, constantly growing, changing, and becoming more profound.

If you are enlightened, then your twin flame is enlightened because you are the same soul in two different bodies. Therefore, twin flames are on the same level with each other in terms of spiritual understanding.

Achieving enlightenment is not the same thing as discovering your twin flame. Meeting your twin flame may cause you to examine the spiritual aspects of life and can then take you both on that journey. But, in general, enlightenment is out of the equation. Bonnie and Clyde were twin souls and they went on a robbing and killing spree that caused a lot of distress. So enlightenment and twin flames don’t necessarily go together.

Most people on this planet right now are not enlightened. They do not look within and see their connection with the Universe or with their Eternal Souls. So wherever they are on the path, their twin soul will be exactly where they are too. The purpose of meeting our twin flames is deeply spiritual. When you feel the wonder of it, that can catapult you into understanding the unseen mysteries of life.
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Maybe you are an old soul, who has incarnated many times. Your twin flame will be on exactly the same level. Even if you live in New Jersey and your twin flame is in Australia, you really are the same soul. So it isn’t possible for one of you to be enlightened and the other one not. Both of you are One, and enlightenment has nothing to do with it. But be sure that meeting your twin flame always shakes you to your roots.

f we didn’t suffer in our bodies and our minds, we would not seek the answers that only the Spirit can bring. When we get to the point, as Eckhart Tolle did, where we just can’t live with ourselves anymore, we are forced to find a better way.

We can see that the ego-mind, with its inability to live in the present moment, is constantly seeking something to give it relief. But it can’t find it because it is the very structure of the ego mind that is the problem. This survival-based mind, with its defensiveness, desire to prove itself right, and need for more, more, and more—cannot be still.

This is how all the great thinkers and spiritual masters have evolved. If they were all living in a state of Pure Positive Energy 24/7, there would have been no impetus to leave that state of bliss. But the ego mind does not comprehend the bliss of peace. It struggles, suffers, can’t stand the present, thinks something in the future might do the trick. For a state of bliss, we need a combination of the Soul and the heart that bypasses the mind and its natural state of fear.
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Each bit of suffering we undergo can be transmuted into something profound and meaningful, if it leads to our further discovery of the truth of our Soul. That is where peace abides and nowhere else. As difficult as suffering is, it is an indicator that we can find a way out—it is not permanent and we don’t need to get lost in the misery of it. It is not the end of anything, just the beginning of our search for who we are as Eternal Souls.

Your mind is already connected to your subconscious mind, you just don’t know it. That is why it is called the sub-conscious. It is underneath your awareness and your ability to express it through words.

You can only talk about what is on your conscious mind. Techniques such as hypnosis, and certain drugs such as sodium pentathol, allow you to delve down into what has been long forgotten or repressed. There are problems with sodium pentothal, though. It’s a case of TMI (Too Much Information). It gives information in endless streams that are impossible to determine if they are fact or fiction.

Your conscious mind keeps things sorted and straight and it can actually influence the subconscious mind. This part of you is full of past lives memories and motivations, received knowledge from whatever culture you were born into, and repressed memories from this lifetime.
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The subconscious is what motivates our actions even if we think we are making rational decisions. Yet it is possible to use our conscious mind to restructure the subconscious and correct some of the patterns that don’t serve us. Techniques such as mantras and affirmations have been successful as a way of reprogramming old subconscious mental habits that run our lives forever if they are not addressed.

We don’t need to be at war with our lesser selves. We need to transcend them. If we try to defeat the tendencies we don’t like in ourselves and that don’t bring us inner peace, we set up an adversarial situation. We are then actually going against ourselves, blaming and criticizing.

As in war, there is defeat, if we become angry with ourselves. And no one ever wins in a war really. Everyone is scarred by it in some way.

So we do not want to defeat ourselves. We want to examine the traits that do not support us and then lovingly set about to rise above them gently to our Soul level. For example, we recognize a tendency to cut corners and be lazy. We know this is not a great character trait and does not lead to success in any undertaking. We also know that at the end of the day we will beat up on ourselves for being slackers.

Adding self-criticism to our already low sense of self-esteem leads to a downward spiral. It more effective to look within and see the fear behind the procrastination. We need to look at what about the task at hand makes us want to escape the present moment, and we need to arrive at what we can do to get out of our inertia in a fun and lighthearted way.
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In this way, our lesser selves (our petty, frightened ego-minds) will become neutralized. We have not given them the power and therefore do not need to fight them. We just leave them where they are and move to a higher level.

Inner joy is never dependent on outer things. A person with inner joy can feel as peaceful in a prison as in a mansion. Nothing external matters to inner joy. That means a person can be “old,” “ugly,” and seen as “totally useless” by others and still feel great gratitude and happiness for just being alive. They forgive the poor sinners that treat them badly and find rest within themselves and a glowing inner world.

Our societies have been on a childish path of acquiring more toys for centuries now. The view of happiness being an accumulation of objects that easily decay or can be destroyed is not logical. But to a childish mind it makes sense. Like a child at Christmas surrounded by all the toys and candy but still crying. He wants that one toy Santa Claus didn’t bring. He also ate too much candy and his stomach hurts. He’s cranky.
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Maybe one more toy will do the trick. No. We have seen that the world is not happier with all the abundance of riches and luxury. It is an old joke now that People Magazine should be called, Miserable Folks Who Self-destruct in Mansions. It is not real. It is a false path. But it is a path people on this planet must take on their evolution towards higher consciousness.

You really can’t control your unconscious mind. You can only know that it exists and provides hidden reasons for why you do certain things and make certain choices. Your unconscious mind is just one more thing you have no control over.

If you asked me, “How can I take control over my pancreas?” I would give you a similar answer. You can’t. It functions outside of your control unless you totally destroy your body through unhealthy living habits. Then you can destroy your pancreas too, along with the rest. But even if you have excellent living habits, you can still have pancreatic cancer—regardless of your best efforts.
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Few things are actually within our control, when we really look at it. Our circulatory system, our heartbeat, our digestion. We can’t control any of it. But we can control our conscious mind—our thinking. We can choose our thoughts. Those are under our control. And that control makes the difference between a happy and an unhappy life.

Rationality is a good thing in the world of the spirit. Reason is not our enemy, it is our friend. If the reasoning functions of our brains feel comfortable dividing who we are into mind, body, and ego as it observes us, that is fine.

But I would like my rationality to take me even further, beyond mind, body, and their attendant egos. There comes a point when even reason will take us to a place that goes beyond rationality. Because rationality can take us only so far.

At this point, reason has no footing in the world of the Spirit. That is because reasoning is linear: This caused that. That caused this. This happened because of that. All this is in time because one thing follows another in a sequence. We need to find reasons and we look into the past to see the causes. We look into the future to see the effects.
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In the world of spiritual awakening, time does not exist. Nor does space. Causality, as the rational mind knows it, does not exist. It is all happening at once. It is beyond the rational, it is beyond the laws of Newtonian physics, and it cannot be explained adequately in any language that exists on this planet today. So it’s OK for the rational part of the brain to recognize all of our components, but it is a limited perspective.

Philosophy can explain a lot of things to us. It is based on reason, knowledge, and contemplation. It can explain what is considered to be the Good Life, the difference between good and evil, whether God exists or not, and answer any other question that has occurred to people for centuries.

It can answer what, how, when, and who. But it falls short when it comes to answering “Why?” This is because we can never fully know why something happens. Philosophy, when broken down to its roots, means “Love of of wisdom.” In peoples’ search, they have been able to measure and calculate “what.” They have been able to state “when.” They can also point out “Who” made some very wise observations.

​Yet, when it comes to “Why,” all anyone can do is conjecture. If we go into Spirituality, we can finally get closer to the answer to “Why?” But reason alone will never get us there.

We can achieve eternal freedom from suffering from diseases. But diseases will always be with us. This is part of being in the Physical plane. We don’t need to personalize it and think that diseases only happen to us or to people and therefore diseases are bad. Or that we have done something bad to deserve the disease, or someone has cast a spell on us.

In nature, diseases have their role in thinning herds and renewing forests. It is not seen as a horrible thing, only as part of the whole process. But people want to stamp out all diseases so everyone will live forever. Can you imagine a world where everyone lived forever and ever? It will get crowded fast and the inevitable result will be disease from overcrowding.

People fear death and disease and want to stamp out everything that’s uncomfortable and create a world where nothing ever goes wrong. “Wrong” in this sense is what doesn’t fit into their fairytale idea of a perfect world where there is never any pain and nothing decays or passes away.

But people on a spiritual path do not fear disease or death. They know they are Eternal Souls. Nothing can kill them. They are not the body, which is a combination of water and a few chemicals. There is no inherent life in the chemicals, only the Soul within.
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Disease can be a great tool for learning how to overcome suffering. It can bring the spiritually minded person closer to understanding ways of self-healing. Being eternally free from disease is not really freedom at all. Being free from suffering is another story. We can face the pain and divorce ourselves from the suffering—that is possible and many have done it!