The highest revelation is that God is in every man. Ralph Waldo Emerson During the holidays there can be a tendency to feel less than our best, a tendency to ask questions that have no easy answers. What's it all about? Have I wasted my life? Did I miss my shot -...
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. George Washington Carver I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. Henry David Thoreau All day every...
Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals: not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding around your own neck, nor in...
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The inquiry into what you really are begins with the understanding that this body doesn’t exist for long, it dies. So, when I die, do I die with the body? Or am I still around? If I’m still around and if I have a personality and a subtle...
The immanent world is not maya; not even the ego is maya. The real maya is the separateness. Feeling and thinking that we are really separate from the whole is the illusion. Amit Goswami, Ph.D., The Self-Aware Universe The Sanskrit term maya is usually translated as 'illusion,' and is used to describe...
This feeling of "I and mine" causes the whole misery. With the sense of possession comes selfishness, and selfishness brings on misery. Every act of selfishness or thought of selfishness makes us attached to something, and immediately we are made slaves. Each wave in the [mind] that says "I...
What I am saying is that there is nothing to fear. To live with this understanding is what is called holistic living. It is to live with the understanding that the entire universe is pervaded by that blissful Supreme Being and we are a part of that! This is...
…others said the first music made with a string was the ping of a hunter's bow, the sound so disturbing to the quiet he was trying to keep while tracking his prey, and so surprisingly sweet, that the hunter put down the bow, unable to use it to...
It is difficult to find happiness in oneself but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. Arthur Schopenhauer Being a meditator, living a 'spiritual' life, does not give us freedom from the pain of life. It’s not about making a mood of 'everything's fine' when everything isn't fine. Sometimes life...