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 Jnani Yoga of Nissargadatta- Radical Surrender
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The Great Anandamayi Ma
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Crossing the threshold of pain into freedom
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Asking, “Who am I?” will help you find your True Self.
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The power of faith in Christ
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How to Develop a Spiritual Practice
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How to take an Inner Journey to find Love, Grace & our True Self
To really find our true self and live with love and grace we first have to realize what we are not. Nothing that we perceive outside of ourselves—our wealth, material possessions, status, property or anything else, will ever bring us face-to-face with the truth and...
Rising above the Noise with Spiritual Yoga
Spiritual yoga practices that will help you rise above the noise of everyday life and move toward self-mastery. We live in a noisy world. The crescendo of technology challenges us to find the time and space to develop a spiritual practice.These tips will help you to...
How do we reignite our inner passion for life?
The masters have taught us the way to living with passion and inspiration. We have a choice every day when we awaken as to whether we want to take on the world with fearful consciousness of our own ego’s will, as if we were a little white cap in the big scary ocean or do we die once to fear by surrendering our ego and will to be free and claim our eternal truth and allow the strong omniscient ocean itself to live us.
Using Guilt to Ignite a Spiritual Transformation
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain." Kahlil Gibran The month of March is a wonderful time of year to begin a personal...