[T]he blissful supreme is right here – so simple and clear. No one need shave his head or wear special headgear or ochre robes or run away from all that one holds dear. No Sir! You may live in this world and do your duties, earn your livelihood,...
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. Rainer Maria Rilke Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much...
It is the concept of many people that samadhi [non-dualistic state of consciousness] is something to be attained, something to be gained; that something new will happen to us. What is samadhi actually? There are three words: sam, a, dhi. Sam means 'completely', dhi means 'consciousness'--you are completely in your own pure conscious state,...
It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worth while. But with the alcoholic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a spiritual...
The Presence is silent and conveys a state of peace. It's infinitely gentle and yet like a rock. With it, all fear disappears, and spiritual joy occurs on a quiet level of inexplicable ecstasy. Because the experience of time stops, there's no apprehension, regret, pain, or anticipation; the source...
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Martin Luther King, Jr. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. The nature of being human means that...
Whatever it is that occurs at death, I believe it deserves to be called a miracle. The miracle, ironically, is that we don’t die. The cessation of the body is an illusion, and like a magician sweeping aside a curtain, the soul reveals what lies beyond. Mystics have long...
When we call upon God in prayer, we are assuming a world that is held by the divine. We are changing our perspective: from seeing only the negative to seeing perhaps the prospect of hope. We are saying that there is a reason to go...
We cannot hate our way to love. We cannot kill our way to fearlessness. We are not humans seeking a spiritual experience, but rather spirit, having a human experience. What is the human experience? It is the survival pyramid of the animal nature and the stories we tell ourselves to...
In the beginning there was desire, which was the first seed of mind; sages, having meditated in their hearts, have discovered by their wisdom the connection of the existent with the nonexistent. The Hymn of Creation, Rig Veda The idea of desire is much misunderstood within the study of spiritual teachings. The idea is often touted that we...