Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light. Nisargadatta Maharaj In the physical realm, all things are relative - that is, all things are defined in terms of something else. Time is a measure of the revolution...
"Hate the sin and not the sinner" is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world...
The flow of life had served as sandpaper that, to a great extent, freed me of myself. Unable to unbind myself from the incessant pull of my psyche, in an act of sheer desperation, I had thrown myself into the arms of life. From that point forward, all...
As far as God is concerned, there is no check of any kind upon the amount of divine energy that we can appropriate, or, therefore, upon the things that we can do or be. Yet, for practical purposes, You can draw from the inexhaustible Source only in accordance with...
Fame and success, like happiness, cannot be sought directly. Happiness cannot be achieved by struggle; it is the automatic consequence of an inner sense of delight, joy, and satisfaction. Happiness automatically comes from being a certain kind of a person and being a certain way in the world and...
Every time I go in to work, I try to be positive. I say hello. Some of them say hello back. Sometimes some don't. I try not to take it personally. And then I sit down and these two [who share my work space] just go. They have...
If we didn't have this world exactly as it is, we would have to build another just like it in order to get what is available here, in order to do the work that we have to do here. David Hawkins, MD, PhD We are here to evolve as consciousness....
The Thing Is Ellen Bass to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you...
In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance. Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places: Stories To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard Leap. This is the Vedic directive: leap. In meditation, we are aligning ourselves with the movement of the laws of nature. Before...
"Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you." Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 If I think I need a relationship in order to be complete, I am seeing myself as incomplete....