I realized that Maharishi was offering love with detachment, the mark of a great sage. I remembered one of his favorite remarks, which he once directed to me: “I love you, but it’s none of your business.” Deepak Chopra, The Maharishi Years – The Untold Story:  Recollections of a Former Disciple  from Huffington Post If weContinue reading

If all is in truth Sachchidananda (Existence, Consciousness, Bliss), death, suffering, evil, limitation can only be the creations… of a distorting consciousness which has fallen from the total and unifying knowledge of itself into some error of division and partial experience. This is the fall of man typified in the poetic parable of the Hebrew Genesis. ThatContinue reading

Just like a sunbeam can’t separate itself from the sun, and a wave can’t separate itself from the ocean, we can’t separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind. Marianne Williamson The basis of the Vedic worldview is that there only is One thing.Continue reading

By your stumbling, the world is perfected. Sri Aurobindo Each of us arrives on this planet without knowing how to live. We must be taught to sleep through the night, taught to walk, to use the toilet, to speak, to ask for what we want. We must be taught to share, taught to read, taughtContinue reading

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change. Octavia E. Butler Meditation works. I have yet to see one person learn to meditate whose life was not changed by our practice. And the change always has been for the good. So whyContinue reading

“It’s the thing that everyone struggles with all of the time, that idea of not having the day stolen from you by the static in your head, either regret for yesterday or fear for tomorrow,” he said. “And I’ve struggled with that like everybody else, and I have been for the last few years activelyContinue reading

Ultimately, you are your own Master. There is no other. A teacher can help you understand this point. If you do, then you are free. My job is to tell you that your teacher is in you. Sri M Today, perhaps more than any time in recent memory, many of us would love to have someoneContinue reading

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while longing to make music that will melt the stars. Gustave Flaubert But we can love. In any way we can, however cracked or crude our speech and rhythm. Love everything. Love everyone. While they are stillContinue reading

Love is a many-splendoured entity. Physical love or spiritual love has the same source, although it manifests at different degrees. You cut across all barriers. Who cares for personal consequences? You want to give, want to sacrifice your personal convenience for the sake of your beloved. You are in love. I plead, please, that weContinue reading