Soul Lights

Most people don’t want to be happy. Nor do they want to be unhappy. Instead, they want to be happy with conditions. In other words, when their demands are met. This isn’t happiness at all: rather, it’s having our demands met. Often, these are a demand on the Universe: “I’ll be happy when I win

The Way forward is to stay still. This is how we find Self. The Way forward is to go nowhere except within. This is how we embrace Self. This seems crazy in a crazy world that looks to others for approval – but only because many people have forgotten their innate greatness. The Way forward

“It is well known that if you use UV light to destroy 99 percent of a cell, including its DNA, you can almost entirely repair the damage in a single day just by illuminating the cell with the same wavelength at a much weaker intensity. This phenomenon is known as photorepair. “A Russian scientist, Pjotr

Last week I spoke about Real Faith embracing us as our expectations in such a way that it flows out of an actual physical knowing within us rather than just a clump of mental ideas, hopes or even vague wishes. One person wrote: “The fleeting awareness of this knowing is so sweet and then we

In my spare time I am writing three more books. You might well ask “why three?” – and my answer is “because I expect to finish them”. Expectation, real expectation, is faith. Finishing the books is not my goal (one volume has taken three years thus far!). Rather, it is my vision. It is a

Ultimately, Happiness arises from within oneself the moment one surrenders to Divine Guidance. After we’ve thought all our thoughts, planned all our plans, plotted all our plots, dreamed all our dreams and manipulated everyone and everything we realize we ultimately have control over nothing outside our Self. We cannot control our life, our death or

Three articles ago I spoke about the first step to happiness – stop comparing ourself with anyone else. The following article I spoke about how happiness is being truly real and seeing through the insanity of “normal” life. We DROP the distortions and dysfunctions which create the madness that spins itself into a mesmerising nightmare

Last week I spoke about STEP ONE – not comparing oneself with anyone else. Justine from Sydney wrote: “Hey Les, I loved Step 1, I could really relate to this piece. A task last year brought out my self-doubt and issues of self-worth. I can honestly say my comparing myself to other people robbed me

Are you happy? Anthony De Mello, the late and famous Catholic priest from India, once said that noone was happy. He said that no-one even wanted to be happy – they liked being sad, hurt, disillusioned and angry. I’m not quite as pessimistic as Anthony – I believe happiness is possible on this planet. It

I remember as a child hearing the story of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. It fascinated me; especially because all the churches seemed fixated on some strange purpose for his barbaric killing and an equally strange reliance on the sureness of his physical resurrection. For me, the magic of the story lay in the fact that

In the Jewish creation story, the first humans sensed their individuality – and perceived it as a state of separateness from God. In this perceived state of separateness they found themselves capable of operating in contradiction to God’s laws; and thus God seemingly punished them by removing them from his Presence. They found this perceived

Welcome to the FIRST Issue of Volume 4 In this new volume I’d like to explore the positive aspects of authentic spiritual life and offer more practical steps for achieving it. The first step – the biggest step – on the road to enlightenment is to know you’re on your way. This requires that you