Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein The Sanskrit word maya often is used to describe the world as illusion. In fact, maya refers more to the mind's propensity to divide the world--which the Veda tells us is one, whole, complete reality--into apparent duality. When we live through...
Thought is the mother of all action. So also is imagination or visualisation the key to all achievement...
We observe matter in constant change. So also the mind changes...
After the appearance of The Autobiography of a Yogi, very few authentic spiritual biographies have appeared, and the writers of even those are no longer alive and available for discussion. Also, however authentic Swami Yogananda's autobiography is, he hadn't personally spent much time in the Himalayas. Therefore, I thought it...
[T]he blissful supreme is right here--so simple and so clear...
Eventually, everything is surrendered that stands in the way of the Presence...
Bright but hidden, the Self dwells in the heart. Everything that moves, breathes, opens, and closes Lives in the Self. He is the source of love And may be known through love but not through thought. He is the goal of life. Attain this goal! The shining Self dwells hidden in the heart. Everything in the cosmos, great and...
The Self is everywhere. Radiant is the Self. Indivisible, untouched by sin or evil, wise, In all things and beyond all things. He it is who holds the cosmos together. Isha Upanishad The Veda tells the story of an ancient time, a Golden Age when consciousness was full and all were born enlightened. For eons before, man had worked...
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. Immanuel Kant The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. Edna St. Vincent Millay When I first began studying spirituality and metaphysics with a group of like-minded individuals,...
Only in our doing can we grasp you. Only with our hands can we illumine you. The mind is but a visitor: it thinks us out of the world. Each mind fabricates itself. We sense its limits, or we have made them. And just when we would flee them, you come and make of yourself an offering. I don’t...