Francis G. Bitterly CFP®
Author, student of comparative religions, Christian mystic and contemplative.
Francis G. Bitterly, CFP®, leads a wealth management team based in Red Bank, New Jersey as a Managing Director, Wealth Advisor, Sr. Portfolio Management Director, and Certified Financial Planner®.
Since graduating from Rutgers University in New Jersey in 1985 with a B.S. in Business Management, Fran has spent the past 38 years helping his clients make wise and informed decisions about their money to enable them to achieve what is most important to them.
He has been recognized ten times by Barron’s Magazine as one of the nation’s top financial advisors and listed as America’s Best-in-State Wealth Advisors by Forbes Magazine.
2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 Barron’s Top 1,200 Financial Advisors: State-by-State (formerly referred to as Barron’s Top 1,000 Financial Advisors: State-by-State)
Source: Barrons.com (Awarded 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022). Data compiled by Barron’s based on 12-month period concluding in Sept of the year prior to the issuance of the award.
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 Forbes Best-In- State Wealth Advisors
Source: Forbes.com (Awarded 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021). Data compiled by SHOOK Research LLC based 12-month time period concluding in June of year prior to the issuance of the award.
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“As the drop relinquishes its mortal sense of self and yields to its intrinsic nature— that of the ocean itself—the very nature of the ocean is revealed. Tremendous relief comes flooding in as we admit to ourselves that the ego, with all of its opinionated positionality based on an inherited sense of separateness, is actually not only the cause of our stress and woe, but also the root of all obsessive thinking and desire.”
-The Yoga Of True Wealth, Francis Bitterly
Yoga of True Wealth
Wisdom from a Heart on Wall St
Presented With sincerity, honesty and heart, this is a touching true story replete with the deepest wisdom and most poignant truths. The fact that these golden threads are interwoven in the tapestry of human life unfolding makes it all the more medicine for the soul.
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The Infinite a sudden Guest
The Infinite a sudden guestHas been assumed to be,But how can that stupendous come Which never went away? - Emily Dickinson Preface - Prior to Consciousness by Jean Dunn In one way the core of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj's teaching is easy to grasp, and extremely...
“I Am” is the first name of God
Jesus Christ did not mistake himself to be merely an individual person whose life was limited within a certain range of time and place. He knew himself to be the real and eternal spirit ‘I am’, which is unlimited by time and place. That is why he said, ‘Before Abraham...
God Speaks-To-Each-Of-Us
God Speaks-To-Each-Of-Us God speaks to each of us before we are, Before he's formed us — then, in cloudy speech, But only then, he speaks these words to each And silently walks with us from the dark: Driven by your senses, dare To the edge of longing. Grow Like a...
“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the Astonishing Light of your own Being!”
“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the Astonishing Light of your own Being!” “Even After All this time The Sun never says to the Earth, You owe me.” “One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is...
The ego dies every night in deep sleep – “If anyone would come after me let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me” (Luke 9:23).
"People are afraid that when ego or mind is killed, the result may be a mere blank and not happiness. What really happens is that the thinker, the object of thought and thinking, all merge in the one Source, which is Consciousness and Bliss itself, and thus that state...
“When you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner “- Jesus – Gospel of Thomas
"The radiance of consciousness-bliss in the form of one awareness shining equally within and without is the supreme and blissful primal reality whose form is Silence and which is declared by Jnanis (Realized Ones) to be the final and unobstructable state of...
All blessings come from within.
John 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. Q: But does one get reborn? M: What was born must die. Only the unborn is deathless. Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is our sense of...
Psalm 23
The Lord Is My Shepherd Psalm23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I...
Sri Ramana Maharshi Talk 146
Talk 146 In reply to Miss Leena Sarabhai, a cultured Indian lady of high rank, Sri Bhagavan said: The state of equanimity is the state of bliss. The declaration in the Vedas ‘I am This or That’, is only an aid to gain equanimity of mind. D.: So, it is wrong to begin...
Nisargadatta Maharaj on “Christ -Consciousness” from the book “Prior to Consciousness” by Jean Dunn
Questioner: Would Maharaj talk about the grace of the guru? Maharaj: It is the intensity of the faith you have in the guru's words that is most important; once that is there, the grace flows automatically. The faith in the guru is based on the consciousness within,...