[F]rom a spiritual perspective, the most effective political, social, or environmental activism is awakening to your true nature and helping others awaken. Indeed, in the long run, it is the only effective method, for awakened ones naturally exist in harmony with their total environment (because...
The primary spiritual gift of human existence is the opportunity that by the option of one's own free will, Divinity may be chosen or rejected by whatever name God is known. Thus, human life and the permission to incarnate as a human are great gifts...
Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels. Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses Perfection is not possible in the relative world. The word perfection means, originally, "completed." So by definition, if you're still alive, it's not possible for you...
[W]e forget that our real nature, by definition, is always available to us in some measure. Accessing it does not depend on solving any problem or healing any wound...
On the path of spirituality, the journey is as important as the goal. Sri M Which is the opposite of ‘the end justifies the means.’ And reminiscent of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘It’s the not the Destination, It's the journey.’ So today, I will insist on being present to how I...
Between snowflakes and leaves there are resemblances. At the sight of snow falling one thinks that one is seeing small flowers that are falling from the sky...
To attain all the fulfillment you've ever dreamed of and more, you simply need to see the truth of your own Being: that infinite potential exists within you, for you are an expression of the Divine, and whatever manifests through you in this life, though...
Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do anything about it. It means simply to let the feeling be there and to focus on...
If you look at life, it's in itself a miracle. You don’t need any external miracles. Sri M When I first learned this transcending meditation, I had the need to be fixed. To be relieved of the discomfort and pain I felt, and somehow to be made...
Humankind is being led along an evolving course, through this migration of intelligences, and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and that will eventually wake up up to the truth of who we are. Jalaluddin Rumi, 12th Century Persian Mystic from Coleman...