Our group was in Nepal, building another school. And we always stay with families there. Never a hotel. And this family, the conditions were so poor. Their floor was cow dung. They had one piece of furniture - a bench in the kitchen so they...
Peel away all the layers of an onion, and at the center you will find emptiness; peel away all the layers of a human being, and at the center you will find the seed of God. I believe that God has to be known by looking...
Am I better off making up an alternate reality in my mind and then fighting with reality to make it be my way, or am I better off letting go of what I want and serving the same forces of reality that managed to create...
The ego's survival relies on the defeat of [spiritual] truth...
There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind - you are the one who hears it. Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself I'm sitting in the backyard, listening to the wind chimes and...
The ego believes that through negativity it can manipulate reality and get what it wants. It believes that through it, it can attract a desirable condition or dissolve an undesirable one. If "you" -- the mind -- did not believe that unhappiness works, why would you...
The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality. Isabel Allende, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we...
When the experiments [on spooky action at a distance] were finally performed in 1982, by Alain Aspect and his colleagues at the University of Orsay in France, they agreed with quantum mechanics and not reality as Einstein had always presumed it should be. Apparently a...
Truth is infinite. So, there must be infinite ways of approaching it. Truth is like the sun; there is nothing secret about it. It is open to all, especially now when the human brain has evolved enough to look at it accurately. No more [secrets]! Sri...
The wound is the place where the Light enters you. Rumi Pain is a given. Suffering is optional. Anonymous Suffering is such an easy thing to fall into. Especially these days, with lockdown and unemployment and masks and social distancing. All on top of the usual versions of, 'Nobody...