Q: How do I reach [the real]?   A: You need not reach out for what is already with you. Your very reaching out makes you miss it. Give up the idea that you have not found it and just let it come into the focus of direct perception, here and now, by removing allContinue reading

I became convinced of the probable existence of a transcendent mode of consciousness that could not be comprehended within the limits of our ordinary forms of knowledge. Franklin Merrell-Wolff,  Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object   My final word on this particular subject is: I sought a Goal the existence of which I had becomeContinue reading

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson   The word enthusiasm comes from the Greek enthousiasmos meaning, variantly, “possession by a god,” or “having a god within.”    Occasionally life grants us an experience that fills us up, that pulls us out of the mundane and beyond ourselves; where we feel filled up andContinue reading

To be alive: not just the carcass But the spark. That’s crudely put, but… If we’re not supposed to dance, Why all this music? Gregory Orr, from Concerning the Book That Is the Body Of the Beloved   This is all that life asks of us: to be alive; and, being alive, to dance.   Simple,Continue reading

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. A Course in Miracles   When we find it difficult to love, it is always because we are identified as the ego, rather than as spirit. We have forgot thatContinue reading

No one can spiritually advance by simply sitting down cross-legged and meditating 24 hours. The moment you begin to see divinity in all living beings and start serving human beings, the mind can begin to purify and reach higher states. Service is an important part of Sadhana…   The person whom you serve is givingContinue reading

The mind can do so much more than simply analyze problems with its Doing mode… [T]he mind doesn’t just think. It can also be aware that it is thinking. This form of pure awareness allows you to experience the world directly… to step outside the chattering negative self-talk and your reactive impulses and emotions. It allows youContinue reading

With his being deep in peace, freed from fear, settled in the vow of chastity, with mind subdued and thought given over to Me, let  him sit united realizing Me as the Transcendent. Bhagavad – Gita, Chapter VI, verse 14   ‘With his being deep in peace’ means that the mind is set on theContinue reading

[O]nce you are a yogi, nothing bad can ever happen to you again because there is nothing that you cannot use for your ultimate growth. Even in hell a yogi can be happy. If you are happy, there is no such thing as hell. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, from Midnights with the Mystic, co-written with CherylContinue reading