Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character: a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character. Swami Vivekananda The ancient teachings of Vedanta say the goal of...
At some point of time a great thought will come to us: Let me go and see what is behind all these differences, let me try to understand the One behind the many. That will be the time when our journey will become inward. Till...
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. Carl Sagan The Upanishads are one of the main sources of Vedic wisdom. The word Upanishad means something like 'sitting down at the feet/the source of the...
If we act to avoid pain (or get a huge enough blast of pleasure to blot out the discomfort) we automatically are identified with the ego. If we act in order to have joy, we identify with the Field. David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. Being human is an...
Everything that was broken has forgotten its brokenness. I live now in a sky-house, through every window the sun. Also your presence. Our touching, our stories. Earthy and holy both. How can this be, but it is. Every day has something in it whose name is Forever. Mary Oliver, Everything That was Broken, from...
A man who says he knows is already dead. But the man who thinks "I don't know," who is discovering, finding out, who is not seeking an end, not thinking in terms of arriving or becoming - such a man is living, and that living...
2% of mind is thought. 98% is the truth of you: silence. David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D Years ago, before I found a meditation that worked for me, my mind was beset with thought. Always. As if I were at the center of a maelstrom of voices,...
Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely, even you, at times, have felt the grand array; the...
One regret, dear world, That I am determined not to have When I am lying on my deathbed Is that I did not kiss you enough. Hafiz, from I Heard God Laughing, translated by Daniel Ladinsky One way to enlightenment? Love. Love everything, all the time. This is what David Hawkins advises. This...
Vedanta claims that the human soul is divine, and that all this that we see around us is the outcome of that consciousness of the divine. Everything that is strong and good and powerful in human nature is the outpouring of that divinity, and though...