Author: Jeff Kober

09 Feb

Posted at 19:57h in Daily Thoughts

One regret, dear world, That I am determined not to have When I am lying on my deathbed Is that I did not kiss you enough. Hafiz, from I Heard God Laughing, translated by Daniel Ladinsky One way to enlightenment? Love. Love everything, all the time. This is what David Hawkins advises. This is what the great saints of the...

08 Feb

Posted at 19:40h in Daily Thoughts

edanta claims that the human soul is divine, and that all this that we see around us is the outcome of that consciousness of the divine. Everything that is strong and good and powerful in human nature is the outpouring of that divinity, and though only potential in...

07 Feb

Posted at 20:00h in Daily Thoughts

t is not for the sake of the husband that the husband is loved, but for the sake of the Self that the husband is loved. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, (2.4.5) Recently a friend said it was a great day when he realized that love did not require an object. He did...

06 Feb

Posted at 18:53h in Daily Thoughts

If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors...

04 Feb

Posted at 20:06h in Daily Thoughts

The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment. Jiddu Krishnamurti Evolution is all that nature is doing, always; collectively as well as individually. In our oneness with nature, we too are always evolving. Evolving toward what? Toward wholeness. Toward a more and more complete experience of our oneness...

03 Feb

Posted at 20:37h in Daily Thoughts

Rohr wakes around 5:45 A.M. each day and spends an hour praying wordlessly. “I’m trying to find my way to yes,” he told me, adding that he often wakes up in a state of no. Griswold, Eliza (2020, February 2). Richard Rohr Reorders the Universe, The New Yorker,retrieved from...

02 Feb

Posted at 00:33h in Daily Thoughts

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it. Antonio Machado All happiness is self-referral happiness. If I have no relationship with my inner Self, I will not be capable of happiness. Happiness is not something that we achieve. Happiness is something we uncover through our inner work, through our meditation. As we let go...

31 Jan

Posted at 21:24h in Daily Thoughts

What bars us from finding ‘That’ is too much knowledge, too much ego, too much feeling that ‘I know’. Nobody is ready to say ‘I don’t know’. In fact, in the present circumstances, there are more gurus than disciples. What to do? If one can at least say...