The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. Carl Sagan The Upanishads are one of the main sources of Vedic wisdom. The word Upanishad means something like 'sitting down at the feet/the source of the...
If we act to avoid pain (or get a huge enough blast of pleasure to blot out the discomfort) we automatically are identified with the ego. If we act in order to have joy, we identify with the Field. David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. Being human is an...
Everything that was broken has forgotten its brokenness. I live now in a sky-house, through every window the sun. Also your presence. Our touching, our stories. Earthy and holy both. How can this be, but it is. Every day has something in it whose name is Forever. Mary Oliver, Everything That was Broken, from...
A man who says he knows is already dead. But the man who thinks "I don't know," who is discovering, finding out, who is not seeking an end, not thinking in terms of arriving or becoming - such a man is living, and that living...
2% of mind is thought. 98% is the truth of you: silence. David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D Years ago, before I found a meditation that worked for me, my mind was beset with thought. Always. As if I were at the center of a maelstrom of voices,...
Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely, even you, at times, have felt the grand array; the...
One regret, dear world, That I am determined not to have When I am lying on my deathbed Is that I did not kiss you enough. Hafiz, from I Heard God Laughing, translated by Daniel Ladinsky One way to enlightenment? Love. Love everything, all the time. This is what David Hawkins advises. This...
Vedanta claims that the human soul is divine, and that all this that we see around us is the outcome of that consciousness of the divine. Everything that is strong and good and powerful in human nature is the outpouring of that divinity, and though...
It is not for the sake of the husband that the husband is loved, but for the sake of the Self that the husband is loved. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, (2.4.5) Recently a friend said it was a great day when he realized that love did not require an object....
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be...