Love says, 'I am everything.' Wisdom says, 'I am nothing.' Between these two my life flows. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Who am I? Am I this body? These thoughts? This packet of desires? Am I the religion I practice? The money I make? The gender I am? The opinions I have about...
You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety. Abraham Maslow, from Motivation & Personality Comfort is overrated. the author The nature of life is evolution. With each moment we are owning more and more of who we are, more and more taking our place as a center of...
The ego is really the evolution of the animal. Everything you see on the playground, everything you see on Monkey Island, everything that you see on the news is not different than the animal. The animal is interested in survival, mating, protecting boundaries, territoriality, possession, grabbing things, hording things,...
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last...
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. Rabindranath Tagore You may be an ambassador to England or France You may like to gamble, you might like to dance You may be the heavyweight champion of the world You may...
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and...
There is a state of mind of absolute calmness, where the mind remains absolutely still, quiet and calm like the full moon. It spreads its light everywhere, the cool light of the moon. That is the state which is potentially in all of us even though it may...
Perhaps I am stronger than I think. Thomas Merton, The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton Some days it's tough being human. Yes, there are those days when it feels like the sun is smiling upon us and we just can't make a mis-step. We end up at just the right place at...
I was polishing this chrome around the top of the stove. It was clean, but not really shiny. So I took a steel wool and I started scrubbing it...
Your salvation in this area lies not in resisting the truth of your powerlessness before food, but rather in accepting it. For this acceptance leads you straight into the arms of God, however you think of Him or whatever you understand Him to be. You realize, once you accept...