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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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...
Wisdom of Krishna in The Bhagavad Gita
The unreal hath no being; there is no non-being of the Real; the truth about both has been seen by the knowers of the Truth (or the seers of the Essence). COMMENTARY: What is changing must always be unreal. What is constant or permanent must always be real. The Atman...
Napoleon speaks about the “Greatest Spiritual Warrior”
The following is an excerpt from the book ,”Jesus Among Other Gods” by Author and Apologist Ravi Zacharias. “In a statement about Jesus Christ, Napoleon while he was exiled on the rock of St. Helena he called Count Montholon to his side and asked him,” “Can you tell...
The Lord is my sheperd – Psalm 23
“The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want He makes me lie down in green pastures He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for You are with me Your Rod and Your staff , they...
Wisdom of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Finding The Sense of ‘I am’ Words of Nisargadatta Maharaj: “Along with the knowledge ‘I am’ appears space and the world. When the knowledge ‘I am’ departs the world is liquidated. Appearance and disappearance, birth and death these are qualities of ‘I am’, they...
Wisdom of Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi
"If the mind is restless on account of a sense of the imperfect and unsatisfactory character of what befalls us or what is committed or omitted by us, then it is wise to drop the sense of responsibility and free-will by regarding ourselves as the ordained instruments...
Wisdom of Jesus
On True Wealth Gospel of Luke 16:10- Whoever can be trusted with a little can also be trusted with a lot, and whoever is dishonest with a little is dishonest with a lot. 11 If you cannot be trusted with worldly riches, then who will trust you with true riches? 12 And...
Prayer of Freedom
God, for me, my family, and all humanity Throughout all time, past, present and future, Please help us forgive all people And help us all forgive ourselves. Please God, thank you, God, Amen. Help us all Love each other And Love ourselves, Be at peace with each...
God is beyond what the mind can think -Kena Upanishad
What cannot be seen with the eye, but that whereby the eye can see: know that alone to be Brahman the Spirit and not what people here adore. What cannot be heard with the ear but that whereby the ear can hear: know that alone to be Brahman the Spirit and not what...
The Grace of The Guru
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, faith in one's Self. The love for the beingness I am trying to direct...