And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation - some fact of my life - unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that...
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves. Nisargadatta Maharaj es·sence 1. the basic, real, and invariable nature of a thing. Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House, Inc. What is our essence - the thing in us that never changes? Certainly not our thoughts...
The Vedic seers say, "Have your attention on what is and see its fullness in every moment. The presence of God is everywhere. You have only to consciously embrace it with your attention." Deepak Chopra, Creating Affluence Everything in the universe is structured out of energy and information....
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. George Washington Carver I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct...
The inquiry into what you really are begins with the understanding that this body doesn’t exist for long, it dies. So, when I die, do I die with the body? Or am I still around? If I’m still around and if I have a personality and...
The immanent world is not maya; not even the ego is maya. The real maya is the separateness. Feeling and thinking that we are really separate from the whole is the illusion. Amit Goswami, Ph.D., The Self-Aware Universe The Sanskrit term maya is usually translated as 'illusion,' and is...
This feeling of "I and mine" causes the whole misery. With the sense of possession comes selfishness, and selfishness brings on misery. Every act of selfishness or thought of selfishness makes us attached to something, and immediately we are made slaves. Each wave in the...
What I am saying is that there is nothing to fear. To live with this understanding is what is called holistic living. It is to live with the understanding that the entire universe is pervaded by that blissful Supreme Being and we are a part...
…others said the first music made with a string was the ping of a hunter's bow, the sound so disturbing to the quiet he was trying to keep while tracking his prey, and so surprisingly sweet, that the hunter put down the bow, unable to...
It is difficult to find happiness in oneself but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. Arthur Schopenhauer Being a meditator, living a 'spiritual' life, does not give us freedom from the pain of life. It’s not about making a mood of 'everything's fine,' when everything...