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This page is a list, in no particular order, of various books, websites, audio and video courses, teachers, you name it, that I have personally found beneficial on the “journey.” Read. Listen. Enjoy!

  • The Sedona Method* I love the Sedona Method. I must say it is one of the best things that ever happened to me. It is a unique and easy to learn program for serious personal transformation. It radically changed my life, and I credit its primary instructor, Hale Dwoskin, and its creator, Lester Levenson, with not only bringing me out of a very dark place in my life, but literally helping to “turn on the light” in me and my experience. Be sure to read my review.


    • A New Earth: Eckhart Tolle
  • A New Earth* Eckhart Tolle and Oprah are taking the Internet by storm with their online class for Eckhart’s new book, A New Earth. I enjoy Eckhart’s writing. The book can have a profound impact.


    • Ask the Awakened by Wei Wu Wei
  • Ask The Awakened* The author of this book used the pseudonym Wei Wu Wei. He was an Englishman who traveled extensively in the East and visited many of the great masters of the mid 20th century. His books are a wonderful read on some of the more subtle points of the entire subject of awakening.


  • A Course in Miracles* The Course is a fascinating guide to spiritual transformation and personal development. Much loved and often criticized, those who study it report that it really does foster miraculous change. I studied it for 11 years, and I’m grateful that I did.


  • Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life* Byron Katie is her name, and her program “The Work” is another great program for personal change in the same vein as The Sedona Method. While the Sedona Method focuses first on feelings, Byron Katie goes straight at our thoughts and beliefs. Her questions are highly useful, and I’ve found at times that switching to The Work has been extremely helpful to me.




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Guru Quotes

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

—Arthur C. Clarke

“Is Enlightenment easy or difficult?”
“It is as easy and as difficult as seeing what is right before your eyes.”
“How can seeing what is right before one’s eyes be difficult?”
To that the Master responded with the following anecdote:
A girl greeted her boyfriend. “Notice anything different about me?”
“New dress?”
“No.”
“New shoes?”
“No. Something else.”
“I give up.”
“I’m wearing a gas mask.”

—Anthony de Mello

All of our thoughts are conditioned. We all are thinking exactly along the lines we are conditioned to think. Programmed like a computer. Anybody who thinks they are actually choosing of their own free will the line of thinking that they have is completely deluded by their thinking.

—Adyashanti


Behind most spiritual practices is the belief that you have to get someplace you’re not- a destination called realization or enlightenment. But realization isn’t someplace else; it’s the naturally occurring human state. It doesn’t belong to anybody. It’s who we all are. Spiritual practices also set up many pictures of what this state looks like. For example, when I described how much fear was present, people told me the fear meant that something must be wrong, because fear was an indication that I wasn’t in the proper state. But fear is just what it is, and it’s there too in the vastness of who we are.

—Suzanne Segal

In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved in letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be lost was never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only imprisons us.

—Jack Kornfield