Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while longing to make music that will melt the stars. Gustave Flaubert But we can love. In any way we can, however cracked or crude our speech and rhythm. Love everything. Love everyone. While they...
Love is a many-splendoured entity. Physical love or spiritual love has the same source, although it manifests at different degrees. You cut across all barriers. Who cares for personal consequences? You want to give, want to sacrifice your personal convenience for the sake of your beloved. You are in...
In the faces of men and women, I see God. Walt Whitman It is a spiritual axiom that everyone always is doing the best they can do, in that moment. If someone is engaged in 'bad' behavior, it is because they are afraid of losing something they have or not getting something...
Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. The world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world. Marianne Williamson To think of surrender can be...
While washing the dishes one should only be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing the dishes. At first glance, that might seem a little silly: why put so much stress on a simple...
All you need is love All you need is love All you need is love, love Love is all you need from All You Need is Love, Lennon and McCartney There is no situation that is immune to the power of love. Any situation is upgraded by the addition of love. Love is an action that...
To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to...
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Tolstoy The Veda says that we are spirit - that we are not this body, this mind, these thoughts, feelings and opinions. We are this other thing,...
The whole theory of Maya does not mean that the world is an illusion. The world is a reality, but the theory of Maya says the world is only relatively real and, therefore, not absolutely real. It is not what you think it to be and what it is actually, you...
I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung. Rabindranath Tagore Instead of asking "what do I want from life?", a more powerful question is, "what does life want from me?" Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth There is a story in the Veda of a...