Attending to Our Thoughts The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings. As the shadow follows the...
All you need is already within you, you must only approach yourself with reverence and love. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That People only see what they are prepared to see. Ralph Waldo Emerson Though many men and women have had the experience of spontaneous enlightenment--Sri Ramana Maharshi, Eckhart Tolle, J. Krishnamurti, to...
Enlightenment can be defined as the clear and deep intuitive perception or intuitive understanding (not just belief or intellectual comprehension) of the entire situation, that is, of the unity of Consciousness and of the absence of the 'me' or 'I' as a separate, autonomous entity. Dr. Nitin Trasi, The Science of...
The other thing about spiritual work that people don't understand, it's not just a sporadic thing you do now and then. When you decide to go for it, you're on the edge of the knife and you cannot stop. This is it. You let go and surrender everything....
Consciousness is the field which supports the phenomenon called 'mind.' Consciousness itself is without form. Just before you think a thought, what you're experiencing is awareness, which is radiating out of...
From my time in India, early 2017, teaching for a month and a half...
You are the work of God, and His work is wholly lovable and wholly loving. This is how a man must think of himself in his heart, because this is what he is. A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct. A Course in...
Every day for 20 years I would say, 'what am I gonna do next?' That's how I would ask for inspiration. I don't have any ideas myself. I have a vacant mind, you know; in order to do exactly what the inspiration calls for. And I don't start...
We have to change first; we can’t change the world until we transform. Small drops make the ocean. Sri M It seems more and more acceptable today to judge each other, to designate some group of ‘others’ as the enemy. Anger is the order of the day....
If a person understands that the divine exists in all living beings, no living beings would be afraid of him nor will he be afraid of any. This is an experience I had with Babaji when it came to snakes and bears. Nothing bothered him because he didn’t...