It is through your ignorance alone that the universe exists. In reality you are one. There is no individual self or Supreme Self other than you. ASHTAVAKRA SAMHITA, XV.16, translated by Swami Nityaswarupananda One of the most profound gifts of the Vedic worldview is how easy it is...
The universe is programmed to manifest, through you, the highest possibilities for your creativity and joy. And that never, ever changes. In God's Mind you are never too old; in God's Mind you are never inadequate; in God's Mind you are not your resume or...
Everything changes. That's the universal nature of outer reality and inner experience. Therefore, there's no end to disturbed equilibria as long as you live. But to help you survive, your brain keeps trying to stop the river, struggling to hold dynamic systems in place, to...
With absolute humility, the ego dissolves. It is a collection of arbitrary mental processes that gain force only because of vanity and habit. If one lets go of the vanity of thought, it dissolves. All thought is vanity. All opinions are vanities. The pleasure of...
If we are making spiritual progress, don’t judge by how many visions or kind of lights one sees. What we have to look at is how one behaves. Have I become less selfish? Has my world narrowed down or has it expanded? Do I feel...
We must be willing to let go of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell Letting go can be a frightening concept: If I let go, I don't know what will happen. If I'm not controlling things, it's all...
Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion. Thich Nhat Hanh In the above few words, Thich Nhat Hanh gives us three suggestions for...
"I want to make up my mind whether God is or God is not. I want to find out why evil exists. I want to know whether I have an immortal soul or whether when I die it is the end." ...
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. Booker T. Washington The...
Apathy and depression are the prices we pay for having settled for and bought into our smallness. It's what we get for having played the victim and allowed ourselves to be programmed. It's the price we pay for having bought into negativity. It's what results...