Fame and success, like happiness, cannot be sought directly. Happiness cannot be achieved by struggle; it is the automatic consequence of an inner sense of delight, joy, and satisfaction. Happiness automatically comes from being a certain kind of a person and being a certain way...
In our age everything has to be a ‘problem.’ Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Yet our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another...
Every time I go in to work, I try to be positive. I say hello. Some of them say hello back. Sometimes some don't. I try not to take it personally. And then I sit down and these two [who share my work space] just...
If we didn't have this world exactly as it is, we would have to build another just like it in order to get what is available here, in order to do the work that we have to do here. David Hawkins, MD, PhD We are here to...
The Thing Is Ellen Bass to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more...
In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance. Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places: Stories To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard Leap. This is the Vedic directive: leap. In meditation, we are aligning ourselves with the movement of...
"Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you." Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 If I think I need a relationship in order to be complete, I...
[T]he sages tell us the pattern of the whole universe, of all that is, is imprinted on the deepest level of your being. You are not only part of the whole, you are the Whole. Realizing this brings the experience of joyous freedom because you perceive that with infinite...
Happiness is looking at the same thing with different eyes. Life only happens here--at this very moment. Tomorrow and yesterday are no more than a thought. So make the best of it. You do not know how long you have got. This is a positive message....
I realized that Maharishi was offering love with detachment, the mark of a great sage. I remembered one of his favorite remarks, which he once directed to me: "I love you, but it's none of your business." Deepak Chopra, The Maharishi Years - The Untold Story: Recollections of...