Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels. Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses Perfection is not possible in the relative world. The word perfection means, originally, "completed." So by definition, if you're still alive, it's not possible for you to be perfect. We want our...
[W]e forget that our real nature, by definition, is always available to us in some measure. Accessing it does not depend on solving any problem or healing any wound...
Between snowflakes and leaves there are resemblances. At the sight of snow falling one thinks that one is seeing small flowers that are falling from the sky...
To attain all the fulfillment you've ever dreamed of and more, you simply need to see the truth of your own Being: that infinite potential exists within you, for you are an expression of the Divine, and whatever manifests through you in this life, though not infinite, is to...
Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do anything about it. It means simply to let the feeling be there and to focus on letting out the...
If you look at life, it's in itself a miracle. You don’t need any external miracles. Sri M When I first learned this transcending meditation, I had the need to be fixed. To be relieved of the discomfort and pain I felt, and somehow to be made whole. ‘Whole’ because I...
Humankind is being led along an evolving course, through this migration of intelligences, and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and that will eventually wake up up to the truth of who we are. Jalaluddin Rumi, 12th Century Persian Mystic from Coleman Barks, The Dream that Must Be Interpreted, The...
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius Every major religion says that God is omnipresent. Every place, every time. Every molecule, every moment. From before the universe began, through every day of these billions and billions of years, and back again to the dissolution that must come at the...
Q: Is self-realization so important? A: Without it you will be consumed by desires and fears, repeating themselves meaninglessly in endless suffering. Most people do not know that there can be an end to pain. But once they have heard the good news, obviously going beyond all strife and struggle is the most...
The Lightest Touch Good poetry begins with the lightest touch, a breeze arriving from nowhere, a whispered healing arrival, a word in your ear, a settling into things, then like a hand in the dark it arrests the whole body, steeling you for revelation. In the silence that follows a great line you can feel Lazarus deep inside even the laziest, most deathly afraid part...