Werner [Herzog] told me he once met a champion ski jumper from Norway who one season beat all his adversaries. "He was also an architecture student and the following year wrote his thesis on the construction of ski ramps. He thought so much about those...
Why not think of spiritual development as something where we need to put in a lot of work? As long as it remains a hobby, we make some progress but not go beyond. Nowadays, people meditate to be free from stress and lose weight! While...
Q: How do I reach [the real]? A: You need not reach out for what is already with you. Your very reaching out makes you miss it. Give up the idea that you have not found it and just let it come into the focus of...
I became convinced of the probable existence of a transcendent mode of consciousness that could not be comprehended within the limits of our ordinary forms of knowledge. Franklin Merrell-Wolff, Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object My final word on this particular subject is: I sought a Goal the...
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson The word enthusiasm comes from the Greek enthousiasmos meaning, variantly, "possession by a god," or "having a god within." Occasionally life grants us an experience that fills us up, that pulls us out of the mundane and beyond ourselves; where...
To be alive: not just the carcass But the spark. That's crudely put, but… If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music? Gregory Orr, from Concerning the Book That Is the Body Of the Beloved This is all that life asks of us: to be alive; and, being alive, to dance. Simple,...
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. A Course in Miracles When we find it difficult to love, it is always because we are identified as the ego, rather...
No one can spiritually advance by simply sitting down cross-legged and meditating 24 hours. The moment you begin to see divinity in all living beings and start serving human beings, the mind can begin to purify and reach higher states. Service is an important part...
The mind can do so much more than simply analyze problems with its Doing mode...
With his being deep in peace, freed from fear, settled in the vow of chastity, with mind subdued and thought given over to Me, let him sit united realizing Me as the Transcendent. Bhagavad - Gita, Chapter VI, verse 14 'With his being deep in peace' means that the mind is set...