The ego believes that through negativity it can manipulate reality and get what it wants. It believes that through it, it can attract a desirable condition or dissolve an undesirable one. If "you" -- the mind -- did not believe that unhappiness works, why would you create it? The...
The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality. Isabel Allende, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear...
When the experiments [on spooky action at a distance] were finally performed in 1982, by Alain Aspect and his colleagues at the University of Orsay in France, they agreed with quantum mechanics and not reality as Einstein had always presumed it should be. Apparently a particle in one place...
The wound is the place where the Light enters you. Rumi Pain is a given. Suffering is optional. Anonymous Suffering is such an easy thing to fall into. Each of us has our own version of it. 'Everybody wants something from me.' 'Nobody understands me.' 'I work and I work and I...
In a 2003 interview with the East Hampton Star, Ms. Abbott recalled that she was 9 when she fell ill with an infection behind her ear, later complicated by pneumonia, that persisted for two bedridden years and marked a break from years spent frolicking outdoors....
gos·sip: idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others. Gossip: from the Old English, godsibb, "godparent," equivalent to God + sib, as in sibling. Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. Strange, isn't it? Somehow we humans can move the meaning of a word from "God relative" to "slanderer." Someone asked what the Vedic world view on gossip would be. Among...
I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of an emotion--the average time it takes for it to move through the nervous system and body--is only a minute and a half. After that we need thoughts to keep...
Eventually you will see that the real cause of problems is not life itself. It's the commotion the mind makes about life that really causes the problems. Michael Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your...
TRIPPING OVER JOY What is the difference Between your experience of Existence And that of a saint? The saint knows That the spiritual path Is a sublime chess game with God And that the Beloved Has just made such a Fantastic Move That the saint is now continually Tripping over Joy And bursting out in Laughter And saying, "I Surrender!" Whereas, my dear, I am...
There is one great fundamental law, the Law of Being, the summing up of all laws in life. It is this: whatever comes to you, whatever happens to you, whatever surrounds you, will be in accordance with your consciousness, and nothing else; that whatever is in your consciousness...