Daily Thoughts

When I first heard of higher states of consciousness, I imagined they would bring awareness of subtler dimensions, possibly new energies, or some other aspect of reality that was beyond my everyday perception. Over the years, I have gradually realized that enlightenment is seeing the same world, but in...

Certain indeed is death for the born and certain is birth for the dead; therefore over the inevitable you should not grieve. Bhagavad Gita, Chapter II, vs. 27 Change is inevitable in the field of relative existence; it is going on even in the present, as it was in the past and will be in the future...

I became convinced of the probable existence of a transcendent mode of consciousness that could not be comprehended within the limits of our ordinary forms of knowledge. Franklin Merrell-Wolff, Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object My final word on this particular subject is: I sought a Goal the existence of which I...

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson The word enthusiasm comes from the Greek enthousiasmos meaning, variantly, "possession by a god," or "having a god within."  Occasionally life grants us an experience that fills us up, that pulls us out of the mundane and beyond ourselves; where we feel filled up...