When I first heard of higher states of consciousness, I imagined they would bring awareness of subtler dimensions, possibly new energies, or some other aspect of reality that was beyond my everyday perception. Over the years, I have gradually realized that enlightenment is seeing the same world, but in...
Certain indeed is death for the born and certain is birth for the dead; therefore over the inevitable you should not grieve. Bhagavad Gita, Chapter II, vs. 27 Change is inevitable in the field of relative existence; it is going on even in the present, as it was in the past and will be in the future...
When you begin to feel a little unhappy, it’s natural to try and think your way out of the problem of being unhappy. You try to establish what is making you unhappy and then find a solution. In the process, you can easily dredge up...
Why not think of spiritual development as something where we need to put in a lot of work? As long as it remains a hobby, we make some progress but not go beyond. Nowadays, people meditate to be free from stress and lose weight! While...
Q: How do I reach [the real]? A: You need not reach out for what is already with you. Your very reaching out makes you miss it. Give up the idea that you have not found it and just let it come into the focus of direct perception, here and...
I became convinced of the probable existence of a transcendent mode of consciousness that could not be comprehended within the limits of our ordinary forms of knowledge. Franklin Merrell-Wolff, Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object My final word on this particular subject is: I sought a Goal the existence of which I...
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson The word enthusiasm comes from the Greek enthousiasmos meaning, variantly, "possession by a god," or "having a god within." Occasionally life grants us an experience that fills us up, that pulls us out of the mundane and beyond ourselves; where we feel filled up...
To be alive: not just the carcass But the spark. That's crudely put, but… If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music? Gregory Orr, from Concerning the Book That Is the Body Of the Beloved This is all that life asks of us: to be alive; and, being alive, to dance. Simple, but not easy...
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. A Course in Miracles Any time we find it difficult to love it is because we are identified as individuality, as the ego, rather...
No one can spiritually advance by simply sitting down cross-legged and meditating 24 hours. The moment you begin to see divinity in all living beings and start serving human beings, the mind can begin to purify and reach higher states. Service is an important part of Sadhana… The person whom...