Daily Thoughts

The fact is that we are separated, and we are looking for it. The puny brain can never find the ‘why’ until it reaches the goal. When it does reach the goal and finds the ‘why’, it cannot explain to someone who is still seeking....

The Ego is a veil between humans and God. Rumi There are people who are in our life day after day - parents, children, spouses, bosses, co-workers - people know where our buttons are. When our buttons get pushed, we have a download of fight, flight, freeze chemistry....

THE GUEST HOUSE   This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.   A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.   Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest...

Humility is the understanding that one doesn’t know; or that, perhaps, there is more to know. The idea that one ‘knows’ has to be set aside, so that the mind is empty to receive. Sri M   There are certain things one can do to stay humble. Being...

Anxiety was found to speed the progression of cancer in hairless mice, to improve humans' sense of smell, and to be alleviated by alcohol in zebrafish who have been living alone. Harpers Magazine, July 2012   Though I wouldn't mind having an improved sense of smell, I think...

The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment. Jiddu Krishnamurti   Evolution is all that nature is doing, always; collectively as well as individually. In our oneness with nature, we too are always evolving. Evolving toward what?   Toward wholeness. Toward a more and more complete...