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 knowledge.’ Implying the need to empty oneself ofContinue reading

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 often painful proposition. From the moment weContinue reading

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 theContinue reading

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 is truth. J. Krishnamurti, To Be Human   The ego ofContinue reading

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, none of them pleasant, or even remotelyContinue reading

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 swelling presence, andContinue reading

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 is whatContinue reading

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 only potential in many, there is no difference between oneContinue reading

It is not for the sake of the husband that the husband is loved, but for the sake of the Self that the husband is loved. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, (2.4.5)   Recently a friend said it was a great day when he realized that love did not require an object. He did not need to love anyoneContinue reading