Living Grace

One of the most powerful expressions of love is mercy. Properly understood, mercy is not a dry, legal decree of innocence handed down from the heavenly courts. Rather, mercy is a river of divine energy that liberates us from the guilt of past sins. Thus, mercy trumps...

The image we have of God is crucial. Our understanding of God represents our view of reality, and our view of reality determines our experience of life. If we see God as the highest good we can imagine, as love, then our hearts will remain open to grace even in the...

Monday: Imagine a life free of chronic fear and shame, a life without the debilitating stories we have of ourselves. Imagine waking up each morning knowing that God is with you and that heaven is supporting all your noble endeavorsTuesday: The more evolved a...

How do we know we are living from our souls? For the sake of brevity, today I will focus on one particular soul quality: depth. By depth I am not referring to one’s intellectual abilities, intensity of emotion, or passionate vitality. Soulful depth reveals the very...

One of the best metaphors I have ever heard for the soul is the multifaceted diamond. The soul is indeed a multifaceted reality. Among those facets are wisdom, strength, endurance, compassion, joy, peace, intuition, discernment, and, of course, love. The more truly we...

Both Yogananda and the Bible teach that God is love, and they both teach that we have been created in God’s image. Therefore, at the deepest layer of our being, we too are love. Yet we humans live from and also identify with our surface self. The surface self has many...