This is a beautiful and enlightening year-long diary from one of the clearest and most direct spiritual teachers of our day. These intimate entries include everything from the enjoyment of good food and advice to seekers from around the globe to bad days at work and to why meditation and spiritual practices wont help you "in the least" with self-realization. Stevens also ruminates engagingly about the weather (particularly the sweltering, Carolina summers), the possible ending of his relationship with his girlfriend, and the unchanging state of deep peace and spaciousness that he came to...

'The answer to all of your spiritual and philosophical questions is directly within and before you. All that is needed is for you to recognize how clearly your own Clarity is already present. No spiritual or geographical journeys are required for that. Radiance is what you are at this very moment. So go ahead, have a quick and timeless look at your ever-present nature. It is lustrous and unfeigned, and it will never desert you.'

This collection of pointers by Rodney Stevens contains a random series of terse, bold statements about our true nature, each one...