There are so many things in our lives that can act to impede our individual spiritual progress. For those who have begun the journey toward a greater ethical and moral way of being, the many shades of individual co-optation will have become very familiar to you along the way. There are the numerous societal impediments to self-realization, ranging through the institutional expressions of collective belief, to include religious, cultural and professional…

Every day we live our lives moment by moment, immersed within the daily grind. For those who ruminate upon the spiritual, we are often beset by feelings of hopelessness as the sheer preponderance of our problems overwhelms us in pettiness and despair. The worry we feel when thinking about our bills, the trepidation we entertain when thinking about difficult personal relationships. Job worries, money worries, relationship worries. They all seem so impossible to…