Each one of us is a lovely stream flowing into the great ocean of love and compassion, of goodness and energy, the Supreme Reality, which is God. Different we may be, but we emanate from the same source and to the same source we return. Sri M   At any given moment there are twoContinue reading

Dear Jeff,  I have been a subscriber to your emails for a year plus. On the mornings that I take the moment to read what you’ve sent, I’m always moved. I remember to appreciate the fact that I have opened my eyes, that my amazing husband and children are well and part of my life.Continue reading

Mind is matter, subject to time and space, like any object. But awareness is not matter; it is free from the clutches of time and space. So, when the mind links with pure awareness, it is liberated and attains freedom to move wherever it likes, without the restrictions of time, space and object. Swami SatyasanganandaContinue reading

I work with these girls [in a recovery program]. They ask for guidance, and I tell them my experience, like ‘blue blue blue,’ but all they hear is ‘green, green, green.’ Then one day they come to me and they say, ‘you’re never going to believe it! I was talking to so and so, andContinue reading

I think I’m beginning to learn something about it. The final words of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, spoken as he put away his brushes, having painted all day from his bed   There is a story about a university professor who visits a Zen master, ostensibly to learn from him. As the master prepares tea for hisContinue reading

So the first realization is that one is not one’s thoughts. One’s thoughts are like a curse. [Laughter] I shouldn’t say that. It sounds so severe. One’s thoughts are like bad luck… You see, the core of the ego is narcissism. The narcissistic core of the ego is the sense of ‘I’ coming out ofContinue reading

The basic problem of the human being is that he wants to see the whole picture, both the phenomenal picture and the non-phenomenal picture, with his limited intellect. It’s like a little screw wanting to know the whole machine.   Heisenberg, who originally stated the principle of indeterminacy, says, “The very attempt to conjure upContinue reading

Faith is not jumping from A to B. Faith is jumping from A. Anonymous, by way of Bird   In the Vedic worldview it is suggested that ‘figuring things out’ is not the best way, in general, to choose our way forward. Rather we are reminded, daily, of this amazing system that lives within eachContinue reading

It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours that might have been worth while… For when harboring such feelings we shut ourselves off from the sunlight of the Spirit. Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 66  Continue reading