The purpose of the Guru Purnima celebration is to turn back and review and see in this last one year how much one has progressed in life. For a seeker, Guru Purnima is a day of significance. It is the day to review one’s progress on the spiritual path and renew one’s determination and focus on the goal. AsContinue reading

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. Marianne Williamson Sometimes our minds are a steady stream of what should be feared–out there in the world, in here with myself, everywhere. As if there were nowhere to be safe. These fears seem so real. Everything they say seems true. InContinue reading

Love is a quality of Divinity and as such illuminates the Essence and therefore the lovability of others… the relinquishing of judgmentalism greatly increases the capacity of Love, as does surrendering the wanting of anything from others. Thus people are not perceived according to what they have or do but by appreciation for what theyContinue reading

The basic things to reach enlightenment are really only half a dozen in number, aren’t they? The willingness to forgive, the realization of the limitations of the intellect, devotion to divinity, the respect for the sacred, one-pointedness or fixity of mind to transcend all obstacles, the willingness to be loving as a way of beingContinue reading

You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather. Pema Chödrön One way to approach the “problem” of happiness, and why we may not have it, could be to see what we have that is opposed to happiness. This would be the experience of suffering.  Suffering is not to be confused with pain.Continue reading

[T]here is a profound connection between blindness, abstract thought, poetry, and spiritual wisdom. Homer, the father of all poets, discovered his literary vocation only when he was no longer encumbered with a sense of vision. Democritus, the inventor of the atom, plucked out his eyes to think more clearly. And Chiu-fang Kao, the most experiencedContinue reading

It is impossible for the human mind to remain a human mind and at the same time to understand God. Only God’s mind can understand God. Only when the human mind is so relieved of its humanness that it becomes God’s mind, even to you, can that mind begin to understand God’s mind. Pandit UsharbudhContinue reading

The paths are many, and the goal is total fullness and completeness. This is what we are all seeking though we may not be spiritually inclined. If even a few people understand this and start living this way, we can change the world. Sri M The human-ness of us always is seeking more and moreContinue reading

So: How can you surrender the ego to god? First become acquainted with what is the ego. It’s the persistence of the animal instinct, but now elaborated through mind, the intellect, and given authenticity by the mutual agreement of society. Paying attention to current events–what you see is every ego mechanism played out on aContinue reading