When we sow our seeds in the garden of life, do we settle for a meager display of two or three flowers? Or, do we aim for a pageantry of rich colors and breathtaking beauty?

So asks author David Bruce in these exquisite essays inspiring us to live an active spiritual life. Fresh and concise, he ranges in theme from living with purpose, spiritual practice, and digital distractions to reincarnation, the human condition, and advice on books and reading. Free of dogma, he helps the open-minded inquirer find ultimate meaning. For spiritual succor, Bruce turns to The Voice of the Silence and The Secret Doctrine, two masterpieces by 19th-century visionary theosophist H. P. Blavatsky.

Listeners will enjoy Bruce’s clarity on his wisdom about eternal, living truths. Our existence does have a purpose, he affirms, if we apply the principles we study to daily life. That way, we benefit all of humanity as well as ourselves, for, as theosophists believe, we are all one.

“Anyone who thinks Theosophy is not practical will find this book a revelation. It presents clear guidelines for spiritual living in the 21st century.” (From the Foreword by Michael Gomes)

David P. Bruce, education director and national secretary of the Theosophical Society in America, is a third-generation theosophist and a popular lecturer.