I feel stuck and have been feeling that way for about 3 years now.  I came from an abusive background and I spent almost all my time dealing with and healing from the situation.  I am a 26 year old female and am only now deciding what I want to do with my life.  I see so many of my friends younger than me achieving so much and I am glad for them but I want some of that happiness myself.  I know their success is due to the most powerful law being LOVE.  The problem is I don’t have that loving support in my life that one needs to succeed.  How do I succeed in my pursuit of a career when I have no love in my life?  The only person I feel I can rely on is me.

I understand and know that pure consciousness is not dual but One, and that you have to go beyond opposite values to experience oneness. All our emotions have opposites too, so does that mean we must get beyond all  emotions? – and if we go beyond our emotions, doesn’t that just make us indifferent? Does becoming enlightened mean becoming indifferent?

I also know that unconditional love is an expression of pure consciousness, because unconditional love is not an emotion, therefore has no opposite – it’s a way of being, allowing everything and everyone to be what they are – but what about bliss, pure consciousness is suppose to be bliss, but bliss is and emotion that has an opposite value doesn’t it ? My final question is, is there a wrong reason to want to become enlightened? I for one want to try become as enlightened as possible, so I Never have to come back here.

I suppose these are almost childish questions, but anyway many thanks and much Love.

What is the difference between desire and expectation of the outcome?  I mean your book 7 spiritual laws of success. I practiced for several months and did not feel the difference between wants and expect results. I think I have a problem here, in my heart.

I feel that I have grown spiritually thus becoming naturally more and more positive every day, however my family are very negative, and although I do not live with them anymore, every time I see them or speak to them, their negativity affects me and it gets me down.  I love my family and know that they need my emotional support but I feel that every time I speak to them it affects me, making me feel emotionally and physically weak. Sometimes I feel that I should avoid talking to them, but this feels wrong and makes me feel guilty. What should I do?

I am 23 year old man, a combat veteran of the US ARMY, and had a 15 month deployment to Iraq from which I was diagnosed with PTSD. As a result of my PTSD, my wife and I of two years have just recently decided to divorce. Over the last few days, I realized that my entire life has been spent trying to find some blinding happiness to drive away depression and more importantly fear. But whenever I find this bliss, it of course always fades or dissipates entirely, and I am left feeling the rebound pain of sadness. Now, I feel like something inside me has woken up, and it’s calm and steady and I only desire now to find peace and clarity. I don’t know if it’s a place, or a person, or just a decision, but I feel like living in the next five years and planning my career and worrying about how long I might be alone is all just worthless, because it’s arrogant of me to assume I know what will happen tomorrow. I see today in a whole new light, and feel like a life of peace is all I’ve ever wanted, but I just didn’t know the difference between peace and glee. I’ve read your ideas, checked out your site, and my question is, am I on the right track?