Daily Thoughts

Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. The world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world. Marianne Williamson   To...

While washing the dishes one should only be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing the dishes. At first glance, that might seem a little silly: why put so much...

All you need is love All you need is love All you need is love, love Love is all you need from All You Need is Love, Lennon and McCartney   There is no situation that is immune to the power of love.   Any situation is upgraded by the addition of love.   Love is an...

To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it...

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Tolstoy   The Veda says that we are spirit - that we are not this body, this mind, these thoughts, feelings and opinions. We are...

The whole theory of Maya does not mean that the world is an illusion. The world is a reality, but the theory of Maya says the world is only relatively real and, therefore, not absolutely real. It is not what you think it to be and what it...

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument  while the song I came to sing remains unsung.  Rabindranath Tagore   Instead of asking "what do I want from life?", a more powerful question is, "what does life want from me?" Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth   There is a story...

Most people spend their whole lives using their strengths to cover up and hide their weaknesses. They expend tremendous energy in keeping themselves a house divided. But if you surrender to your weakness, therein lies your pathway to genius. A person who knows and utilizes...

Every loving or compassionate thought outweighs many thousands of negative thoughts held by others. We change the world not by what we say or do but as a consequence of what we have become. Thus, every spiritual aspirant serves the world.  David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.,  The Eye...