Look at a river, it furrows through the sand, on both sides there are banks. It builds its own banks. Oh, it floods sometimes but that does not mean that you can freeze it and hold it in one place. This movement of life, the...
I apologize to coincidence for calling it necessity. I apologize to necessity just in case I’m mistaken. Let happiness be not angry that I take it as my own. Let the dead not remember they scarcely smoulder in my memory. I apologize to time for the muchness of the...
Love is the sweet expression of life, it is the supreme content of life. Love is the force of life, powerful and sublime. The flower of life blooms in love and radiates love all around it. Life expresses itself through love. The stream of life is...
Arise! Awake! Approach the great [illumined teachers] and learn. Like the sharp edge of a razor is that path, so the wise say--hard to read and difficult to cross. Katha Upanishad My favorite story in the Upanishads is that of Nachiketa, the boy who visits Yama, the God of Death;...
The immanent world is not maya; not even the ego is maya. The real maya is the separateness. Feeling and thinking that we are really separate from the whole is the illusion. Amit Goswami, Ph.D., The Self-Aware Universe There is a Sanskrit term, maya, that usually is translated as...
This feeling of "I and mine" causes the whole misery. With the sense of possession comes selfishness, and selfishness brings on misery. Every act of selfishness or thought of selfishness makes us attached to something, and immediately we are made slaves. Each wave in the...
Consciousness is everything: God, all the gods, the elements of which the world is made, creatures and things of every kind, however large or small, however born or formed, including all that breathes, walks, flies, and all that moves or does not move. All these are known by consciousness, and take their stand...
You are the consciousness which is the witness of all the drama, watching in amusement as the ego plays its games, dons different masks at different times and ends up identifying itself with the roles it plays. The real you is that ever-blissful, unchanging, blessed...
The Absolute Reality of the Self is the manifestation of God as the very core of one's existence...
What I am saying is that there is nothing to fear. To live with this understanding is what is called holistic living. It is to...