Every time I go in to work, I try to be positive. I say hello. Some of them say hello back. Sometimes some don't. I try not to take it personally. And then I sit down and these two [who share my work space] just...
If we didn't have this world exactly as it is, we would have to build another just like it in order to get what is available here, in order to do the work that we have to do here. David Hawkins, MD, PhD We are here to...
The Thing Is Ellen Bass to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more...
In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance. Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places: Stories To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard Leap. This is the Vedic directive: leap. In meditation, we are aligning ourselves with the movement of...
"Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you." Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 If I think I need a relationship in order to be complete, I...
[T]he sages tell us the pattern of the whole universe, of all that is, is imprinted on the deepest level of your being. You are not only part of the whole, you are the Whole. Realizing this brings the experience of joyous freedom because you perceive that with infinite...
Happiness is looking at the same thing with different eyes. Life only happens here--at this very moment. Tomorrow and yesterday are no more than a thought. So make the best of it. You do not know how long you have got. This is a positive message....
I realized that Maharishi was offering love with detachment, the mark of a great sage. I remembered one of his favorite remarks, which he once directed to me: "I love you, but it's none of your business." Deepak Chopra, The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of...
Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate. Swami Sivananda The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation. Milarepa Without meditation, I'd probably be dead. Mike Love Nothing in my experience or in my observation has the transformative power of...
Death accomplishes the following miraculous things: It replaces time with timelessness It stretches the boundaries of space to infinity It reveals the source of life It brings a new way of knowing that which lies beyond the reach of the five senses It reveals the underlying intelligence that organizes...