Thought is the mother of all action. So also is imagination or visualisation the key to all achievement… Ask a successful and wealthy man and he will tell you how he, in his days of poverty, had visualized in great detail the house he would live in, the car he would drive, the clothes heContinue reading

We observe matter in constant change. So also the mind changes… In fact motion, as both Aristotle and the Hindus say, is the essential characteristic of Nature. For this reason the world is called in Sanskrit “Jagat” which means the “moving thing”. The universe is Mind and Matter in constant movement, not a single particleContinue reading

After the appearance of The Autobiography of a Yogi, very few authentic spiritual biographies have appeared, and the writers of even those are no longer alive and available for discussion. Also, however authentic Swami Yogananda’s autobiography is, he hadn’t personally spent much time in the Himalayas. Therefore, I thought it was important that I relate myContinue reading

[T]he blissful supreme is right here–so simple and so clear… You may live in this world and do your duties, earn your livelihood, look after those who need your help, spread the fragrance of love and service, and yet remember to keep in touch with your true Self, the spark from the great fire, theContinue reading

Eventually, everything is surrendered that stands in the way of the Presence… When everything is surrendered that stands in the way, It is there, shining brilliantly forth. Instead of viewing this as something in the future, own it now. Enlightenment is not something that occurs in the future, after 50 years of sitting cross-legged andContinue reading

Bright but hidden, the Self dwells in the heart. Everything that moves, breathes, opens, and closes Lives in the Self. He is the source of love And may be known through love but not through thought. He is the goal of life. Attain this goal! The shining Self dwells hidden in the heart. Everything inContinue reading

The Self is everywhere. Radiant is the Self. Indivisible, untouched by sin or evil, wise, In all things and beyond all things. He it is who holds the cosmos together.  Isha Upanishad The Veda tells the story of an ancient time, a Golden Age when consciousness was full and all were born enlightened.  For eonsContinue reading

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.  Immanuel Kant  The soul can split the sky in two  and let the face of God shine through.  Edna St. Vincent Millay When I first began studying spirituality and metaphysics with a group of like-minded individuals, thereContinue reading

Only in our doing can we grasp you. Only with our hands can we illumine you. The mind is but a visitor: it thinks us out of the world. Each mind fabricates itself. We sense its limits, or we have made them. And just when we would flee them, you come and make of yourselfContinue reading