The other thing about spiritual work that people don't understand, it's not just a sporadic thing you do now and then. When you decide to go for it, you're on the edge of the knife and you cannot stop. This is it. You let go and surrender everything....
Consciousness is the field which supports the phenomenon called 'mind.' Consciousness itself is without form. Just before you think a thought, what you're experiencing is awareness, which is radiating out of...
From my time in India, early 2017, teaching for a month and a half...
You are the work of God, and His work is wholly lovable and wholly loving. This is how a man must think of himself in his heart, because this is what he is. A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct. A Course in...
Every day for 20 years I would say, 'what am I gonna do next?' That's how I would ask for inspiration. I don't have any ideas myself. I have a vacant mind, you know; in order to do exactly what the inspiration calls for. And I don't start...
We have to change first; we can’t change the world until we transform. Small drops make the ocean. Sri M It seems more and more acceptable today to judge each other, to designate some group of ‘others’ as the enemy. Anger is the order of the day....
If a person understands that the divine exists in all living beings, no living beings would be afraid of him nor will he be afraid of any. This is an experience I had with Babaji when it came to snakes and bears. Nothing bothered him because he didn’t...
Shame is a tough one until you re-contextualize it. Shame is really vanity. Pride. Shame is pride, projected on society and visited back upon yourself. You let go of the pridefullness, and own that being a human leaves you [open] to being fallible. It's okay to be stupid and...
our mind is just like a crystal. Suppose you put a red flower before a crystal, what happens? The crystal looks red. Remove it, put a blue flower, it looks blue. Does the red or blue color stick to the crystal? Never. So also your...
You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. C.S. Lewis We have a choice at any moment - two ways to approach any new situation. The first is the way of the animal nature - the ego - which has as its primary...