The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich Sometimes it seems so difficult to hear one another, to listen to each other. So many thoughts to think, so much future to plan, so many fish to fry. Oftentimes we end up multi-tasking as a friend...
Giving up desire after desire is a lengthy process with the end never in sight. Leave alone your desires and fears, give your entire attention to the subject, to him who is behind the experience of desire and fear. Ask: who desires? Let each desire...
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. Helen Keller Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau It is...
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. Rainer Maria Rilke Nobody has ever measured, not...
It is the concept of many people that samadhi [non-dualistic state of consciousness] is something to be attained, something to be gained; that something new will happen to us. What is samadhi actually? There are three words: sam, a, dhi. Sam means 'completely', dhi means 'consciousness'--you are completely in...
It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worth while. But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and...
The Presence is silent and conveys a state of peace. It's infinitely gentle and yet like a rock. With it, all fear disappears, and spiritual joy occurs on a quiet level of inexplicable ecstasy. Because the experience of time stops, there's no apprehension, regret, pain,...
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Martin Luther King, Jr. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. The nature of...
Whatever it is that occurs at death, I believe it deserves to be called a miracle. The miracle, ironically, is that we don’t die. The cessation of the body is an illusion, and like a magician sweeping aside a curtain, the soul reveals what lies...
We cannot hate our way to love. We cannot kill our way to fearlessness. We are not humans seeking a spiritual experience, but rather spirit having a human experience. What is the human experience? It is the survival pyramid of the animal nature and the stories we...