Meeting The Masters

 Every virtue has a complementary virtue which stops the excesses of the first virtue turning into a vice. Mercy and justice is one obvious ...

 Anyone who starts looking around for some spiritual sustenance in the modern world is in a very peculiar position. On the one hand, the wis...

Eastern religion is the quest for enlightenment or liberation, the two words amounting to much the same thing. This entails the death of sel...

 The most distinctive feature of advanced mystical experience is the  dissolution of self in which the sense of "I" is subsumed in...

 The rivalry between Christianity and paganism seems to be reviving in the West as the secular materialism of the post-war period becomes in...

The attempt to live on Earth as though you were already in Heaven inevitably leads to disaster, and communities that try to do this always c...

  "When a religious scheme is shattered (as Christianity was shattered at the Reformation), it is not merely the vices that are let loo...

 Humility and love are considered two of the primary Christian virtues. They are present in other religions, of course, but not emphasised t...

 In his book Mere Christianity, first published in 1952 but deriving from lectures given during the Second World War, C.S. Lewis has a chapt...

 A couple of weeks ago I saw a television programme in which an Indian man who had been living in England since he was a small boy and who w...

 Look in any spiritual textbook and it will tell you about humility and self-abnegation, particularly if it is a Christian one. Humility is ...

 As we know, the devil quotes scripture for his own ends. Nowhere has he been busier in this regard over recent years than with the matter o...

"I'm not religious but I am spiritual". This has been a popular way to present your authentic spiritual credentials for some t...

I expect the next few years to include tests for the soul that become more and more finely tuned. The soul must eventually be made perfect, ...

 Most people who are interested in Indian spirituality will be familiar with Advaita Vedanta, the non-dualistic philosophy whose principal e...

Truth is beyond form and expression but for religion to be comprehensible it must be grounded in form. Religious forms can take many varieti...

 There is no time more spiritually perilous than when you get what you want. In bad times you can more easily turn to God as the world is no...

 How do you get to Heaven?  It's very simple. Here's how. You must love the Creator more than anything in creation, including yourse...

Meditate on blue and gold as this will purify the mind and take it to a higher level where evil influences cannot operate. Anyone on the spi...

 It is a sad fact that in this world everything good is contaminated while many things that are mostly bad have some good in them. This can ...