It is difficult to find happiness in oneself but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. Arthur Schopenhauer Being a meditator, living a 'spiritual' life, does not give us freedom from the pain of life. It’s not about making a mood of 'everything's fine' when everything isn't fine. Sometimes life...
The difference between treating and healing is that in the former, the context remains the same, whereas in the latter, the clinical response is elicited by a change of context so as to bring about an absolute removal of the cause of the condition rather than mere recovery from...
Jeff, people look at me, they see an old man. They don't see my two tours in Vietnam, fighting for their freedom to sit down and eat in here. They don't see my 40 years sober. They don't see my wife and my 14 year-old girl killed by...
There is one important requisite to find the truth, whichever path you may follow. And that is the urgent, earnest desire to find the truth. Sri M The truth is found first within, and then from that place within we can begin to find it in our world. We can...
Your Lord is within you, Like fragrance in the flowers. Why, like a musk deer Are you searching for musk in the grass again and again? Kabir In the Himalayas there is a small deer, commonly called the musk deer. The male of the species has a small gland under its tail. During the...
When the mind becomes quiet and silent, the aim of all forms of meditation - one comes face-to-face with one's consciousness. This is a part of all human beings irrespective of caste, creed, religion or region. Sri M The world seems to be more and more at odds with itself with...
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. Marianne Williamson If romance is not here to fulfill us, why are we in relationships? The Veda tells us we are Oneness. Totality. We settle into this truth...
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love Each of us has one hand that is...
"Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you." Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 The primary mistake we make with regard to relationships is that we see them as a place for...
Sat-Chit-Ananda/Saccidananda: Existence and Thought and Joy. Of the One self-existing or universal Spirit. Brahman. Totality. from Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary Sat = Existence, Is-ness, Truth. That which is, has always been, will always be. There behind all thoughts, feelings, concepts, structure is this--pure Being. Chit = Consciousness, Awareness. Life that is aware of Itself. The Veda describes the birth of Awareness...