I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung. Rabindranath Tagore Instead of asking "what do I want from life?", a more powerful question is, "what does life want from me?" Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth There is a story in the Veda of a...
Most people spend their whole lives using their strengths to cover up and hide their weaknesses. They expend tremendous energy in keeping themselves a house divided. But if you surrender to your weakness, therein lies your pathway to genius. A person who knows and utilizes his true weakness and...
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi We cannot kill our way to peace. We cannot hate our way to love. Regardless of our political differences, our views on walls or abortion, on who's right and who's wrong, we are together. Like...
Every loving or compassionate thought outweighs many thousands of negative thoughts held by others. We change the world not by what we say or do but as a consequence of what we have become. Thus, every spiritual aspirant serves the world. David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., The Eye of the I: From...
You can't stop the triggering of unhappy memories, negative self-talk and judgmental ways of thinking--but what you can stop is what happens next. You can stop the vicious circle from feeding off itself and triggering the next spiral of negative thoughts. And you can do this by harnessing an...
When there is something to be scared or stressed about--whether real or imagined--our ancient "fight-or-flight" reactions kick in as they should. But then something else happens: the mind begins to trawl through memories to try and find something that will explain why we are feeling like this. So if...
Transcendence means that you rise above the thoughts; you don't destroy them, you don't remove them. They are all there waiting for you, you must be very careful. That is why it is said: "When should you praise the monk? When the monk dies, when the body is done...
Happiness, not in another place but this place...
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. Hermann Hesse, Demian Knowledge is acquired. Truth is revealed. Wayne Liquorman There are books that function in every way like instruction manuals for life. For those...
Tomorrow's bills are not the problem. The dissolution of the physical body is not a problem. Loss of Now is the problem, or rather: the core delusion that turns a mere situation, event, or emotion into a personal problem and into suffering. Loss of Now is loss of Being. Eckhart Tolle, The Power...