Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj The Veda tells us again and again that all relative world things will work themselves out, with or without our help. That what is 'real' is that which is beyond the relative world. This is not to say that...
[Consciousness] is shining everywhere, but is not perceived, without the eye. Therefore it is necessary to make the eye. [Consciousness'] eye of discrimination is made from one's own religious conduct and by the worship of Bhagwan (The Divine). Guru Dev, Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, Life and Teachings Enlightened men and women through the ages...
My thoughts do not mean anything. Lesson 10, A Course in Miracles Workbook for Students The Veda says that we each are individual expressions of nature. Like waves on the ocean, each wave just a different way for the ocean to experience itself. Yet most of us, most of the time, think of ourselves as...
In spite of ourselves We'll end up a'sittin' on a rainbow Against all odds Honey, we're the big door prize We're gonna spite our noses Right off of our faces There won't be nothin' but big old hearts Dancin' in our eyes. John Prine, In Spite of Ourselves What makes it so difficult to love? It must be because we fear that we...
The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich Sometimes it seems so difficult to hear one another, to listen to each other. So many thoughts to think, so much future to plan, so many fish to fry. Oftentimes we end up multi-tasking as a friend pours out her heart,...
A Brahman saw the Buddha resting under a tree in meditation. The Brahman was impressed with the Buddha's way. He asked, "Are you a god?" "No, Brahman, I'm not a god." "Are you an angel?" "No", replied the Buddha. "You must be a spirit then?" "No, I'm not a spirit," said the...
Giving up desire after desire is a lengthy process with the end never in sight. Leave alone your desires and fears, give your entire attention to the subject, to him who is behind the experience of desire and fear. Ask: who desires? Let each desire bring you back to...
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. Helen Keller Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau It is our job to live,...
[T]he blissful supreme is right here – so simple and clear. No one need shave his head or wear special headgear or ochre robes or run away from all that one holds dear. No Sir! You may live in this world and do your duties, earn your livelihood,...
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. Rainer Maria Rilke Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much...