We cannot kill our way to peace. We cannot hate our way to love. We must look past the voices of division in our own minds, as well as in our communities. Each of us must find our own way through this crisis, but then find...
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...
[T]he blissful supreme is right here--so simple and so clear...
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...
As long as you imagine yourself to be something tangible and solid, a thing among things, you seem short-lived and vulnerable, and of course you will feel anxious to survive. But when you know yourself to be beyond space and time you will be afraid...
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...