When we became alcoholics, crushed by a self-imposed crises we could not postpone or evade, we had to fearlessly face the proposition that either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is or He isn't. What was our choice to be? The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous page 53,...
[T]he ego has to be first accepted as though it is a reality in order to be dealt with before it can be transcended. At the higher levels, the ego is seen to be an illusion, without any innate reality. Dr. David Hawkins, I: Reality and Subjectivity Ego was the helper; Ego...
To the ego, a "want" is interpreted as a "need" and a "have to have." Thus, its seeking can become frantic, and all caution can be thrown to the wind. Desires are thereby escalated to being desperate and demanding any sacrifice, including even the deaths of millions of other...
I realized that Maharishi was offering love with detachment, the mark of a great sage. I remembered one of his favorite remarks, which he once directed to me: "I love you, but it's none of your business." Deepak Chopra, The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of a Former Disciple from Huffington Post If...
If all is in truth Sachchidananda (Existence, Consciousness, Bliss), death, suffering, evil, limitation can only be the creations...
Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind. Marianne Williamson The basis of the Vedic worldview is that there...
By your stumbling, the world is perfected. Sri Aurobindo Each of us arrives on this planet without knowing how to live. We must be taught to sleep through the night, taught to walk, to use the toilet, to speak, to ask for what we want. We must be taught to...
All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change. Octavia E. Butler Meditation works. I have yet to see one person learn to meditate whose life was not changed by our practice. And the change always has been for the good. So why doesn't everyone meditate? Because...
"It's the thing that everyone struggles with all of the time, that idea of not having the day stolen from you by the static in your head, either regret for yesterday or fear for tomorrow," he said. "And I've struggled with that like everybody else, and I have...
Ultimately, you are your own Master. There is no other. A teacher can help you understand this point. If you do, then you are free. My job is to tell you that your teacher is in you. Sri M Today, perhaps more than any time in recent memory, many of us would...