I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of an emotion – the average time it takes for it to move through the nervous system and body – is only a minute and a half. After that we need thoughts to keep the emotionContinue reading

Eventually you will see that the real cause of problems is not life itself. It’s the commotion the mind makes about life that really causes the problems. Michael Singer,  The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself   The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardlessContinue reading

TRIPPING OVER JOY   What is the difference Between your experience of Existence And that of a saint?   The saint knows That the spiritual path Is a sublime chess game with God   And that the Beloved Has just made such a Fantastic Move   That the saint is now continually Tripping over JoyContinue reading

There is one great fundamental law, the Law of Being, the summing up of all laws in life. It is this: whatever comes to you, whatever happens to you, whatever surrounds you, will be in accordance with your consciousness, and nothing else; that whatever is in your consciousness must happen, no matter who tries toContinue reading

Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light. Nisargadatta Maharaj   In the physical realm, all things are relative – that is, all things are defined in terms of something else. Time is a measure of the revolution of the earthContinue reading

“Hate the sin and not the sinner” is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world… Man and his deed are two distinct things. It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its authorContinue reading

The flow of life had served as sandpaper that, to a great extent, freed me of myself. Unable to unbind myself from the incessant pull of my psyche, in an act of sheer desperation, I had thrown myself into the arms of life. From that point forward, all I did was my very best toContinue reading

As far as God is concerned, there is no check of any kind upon the amount of divine energy that we can appropriate, or, therefore, upon the things that we can do or be. Yet, for practical purposes, You can draw from the inexhaustible Source only in accordance with the measure of your understanding, justContinue reading

Fame and success, like happiness, cannot be sought directly. Happiness cannot be achieved by struggle; it is the automatic consequence of an inner sense of delight, joy, and satisfaction. Happiness automatically comes from being a certain kind of a person and being a certain way in the world and about life. A truly happy personContinue reading