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...
So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro...
The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment. Jiddu Krishnamurti Evolution is all that nature does, collectively as well as individually. In our oneness with nature, we too always are evolving. Evolving toward what? Toward wholeness. Toward a more and more complete experience of...
Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are. This is to adopt a realistic humility without which no genuine advance can even begin. Again and again, we shall...