Daily Thoughts

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein   The Sanskrit word maya often is used to describe the world as illusion. In fact, maya refers more to the mind's propensity to divide the world--which the Veda tells us is one, whole, complete reality--into apparent duality. When we...

The Self is everywhere. Radiant is the Self. Indivisible, untouched by sin or evil, wise, In all things and beyond all things. He it is who holds the cosmos together.  Isha Upanishad   The Veda tells the story of a Golden Age when consciousness was full and all were born enlightened.    For...

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.  Immanuel Kant     The soul can split the sky in two  and let the face of God shine through.  Edna St. Vincent Millay    We used to argue over what is my will and...

Only in our doing can we grasp you. Only with our hands can we illumine you.  The mind is but a visitor: it thinks us out of the world.   Each mind fabricates itself. We sense its limits, or we have made them. And just when we would flee them, you come and...

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.  Arnold H. Glasow   Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. Paul Getty   The true meaning of the word "success" is the movement from one state to another. One state of being, one state of...

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.  George Washington Carver    I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct...

Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat.My shoulder is against yours.you will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrinerooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals:not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs windingaround your own neck, nor in...