As my life improves daily and my feeling of core certainty and well-being strengthens… I find that I still do not materialize certain things in my life because I still do not love and accept myself completely… I am not sure I understand fully… must I put myself before everything and everyone else whatever the consequences??? How EXACTLY do I love myself better???? PRECISE ACTIONS PLEASE!!!… thank you 🙂

I have been dealing with anxiety and worry my whole adult life. While I have been “working” on this for nearly two decades…reading, trying to understand myself better, making life changes that are more in line with my purpose…still, at 45, I feel the pang of anxiety, restlessness, boredom and insecurity in my heart. I know I am blessed in so many ways. But I simply cannot feel the blessings…or somehow “know” that I can trust myself to make the right choices. I hope this makes sense…I guess I feel disconnected and want desperately to “feel” my worth and connection to the world around me.

Of late I have been reading a lot of books on quantum physics, spirituality and leadership. I have read your books as well and in fact keep reading them repetitively. The more I think and ponder, the more I am convinced that the path to true joy and happiness is through living with less and giving up on materialistic attitude. I teach leadership and systems thinking approaches to Corporations and teenagers. My question is “How do I tell my CEO’s and Teens to pursue their goals of growth and prosperity on a material plane and yet teach them to live a simple, selfless life? The more I wish to grow the more I wish to give away my material wealth. I am caught in this duality and ambiguity. Am I being a hypocrite?

Every time I’m in my car and drive up to an intersection with a beggar, I’m caught in a moral dilemma, namely, whether or not to give something such as food or small change. I feel this to be a dilemma for the following reasons: First, if I’m giving money, (more…)

I have read many of your books; my favorites are Ageless Body Timeless Mind and Buddha. The story of Buddha and theteachings were enlightenment and a great understanding. The one question I do not fine in your writings is that I have never understood how one could believe that the soul or truth and light is not independent in its sphere in which it has been placed to act for its self. If we are all part of a higher being/universe/life force and do not have our independence then we are but mere extensions of this life force and do not exist. Where is our agency or our condemnation? Where is our Anger or our Joy? How are we to then not exist and find happiness and joy in this non-existence?