The Truth is far more all-encompassing than the mind could ever comprehend. No thought can encapsulate the Truth. At best, it can point to it. For example, it can say: "All things are intrinsically one." That is a pointer, not an explanation. Understanding these words...
If you don't know where you're going, you'll never be lost. If you don't know what's supposed to happen, you'll never be disappointed. If you don't know how you're supposed to be, you might find yourself pleasantly surprised by who you are. We spend so much...
According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy....
Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj The Veda tells us again and again that all things in this world will work themselves out, with or without our help. This is not to say that we should ignore the relative world. On the...
[Consciousness] is shining everywhere, but is not perceived, without the eye. Therefore it is necessary to make the eye. [Consciousness'] eye of discrimination is made from one's own religious conduct and by the worship of Bhagwan (The Divine). Guru Dev, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, Life and Teachings Enlightened men...
My thoughts do not mean anything. Lesson 10, A Course in Miracles Workbook for Students Each of us are individual expressions of nature. Like waves on the ocean, each wave just a different way for the ocean to experience itself. Yet most of us, most of the time, think...
In spite of ourselves We'll end up a'sittin' on a rainbow Against all odds Honey, we're the big door prize We're gonna spite our noses Right off of our faces There won't be nothin' but big old hearts Dancin' in our eyes. John Prine, In Spite of Ourselves What makes it so difficult to love? It must...
A Brahman saw the Buddha resting under a tree in meditation. The Brahman was impressed with the Buddha's way. He asked, "Are you a god?" "No, Brahman, I'm not a god." "Are you an angel?" "No", replied the Buddha. "You must be a spirit then?" "No, I'm not a spirit," said...
The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich Sometimes it seems so difficult to hear one another, to listen to each other. So many thoughts to think, so much future to plan, so many fish to fry. Oftentimes we end up multi-tasking as a friend...
Giving up desire after desire is a lengthy process with the end never in sight. Leave alone your desires and fears, give your entire attention to the subject, to him who is behind the experience of desire and fear. Ask: who desires? Let each desire...