Mystery 7: Do we live in a conscious universe? Answer: Yes. But this won’t make any sense if your notion of a conscious universe is filed with thoughts, sensations, images, and feelings. Those are the contents of the mind. Remove the contents and what remains is pure consciousness, which is silent, unmoving, beyond time and space, yetContinue reading

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you. Joseph Campbell   The Aitareya Upanishad contains one of the creation myths from of the Vedic culture. It’s fascinating to see the parallels in it to the stories we have in Judeo-Christian mythology.   In the beginning the Spirit was One and all this (universe)Continue reading

Is romance based first on illusion, and then the illusion wears off and now you both look raggedy because you see how it [really] is? Or was the love the reality? Which is which? I always think it’s the opposite of the way the world sees it. I think when you first see that personContinue reading

The fact is that we are separated, and we are looking for it. The puny brain can never find the ‘why’ until it reaches the goal. When it does reach the goal and finds the ‘why’, it cannot explain to someone who is still seeking. But, the fact remains that we are craving. That weContinue reading

The Ego is a veil between humans and God. Rumi There are people who are in our life day after day – parents, children, spouses, bosses, co-workers – people know where our buttons are. When our buttons get pushed, we have a download of fight, flight, freeze chemistry. We have no control over this. ButContinue reading

He is the sun dwelling in the bright heavens. He is the air dwelling in the interspace. He is the fire dwelling on earth. He is the guest dwelling in the house. He dwells in men, in the gods, in truth, in the sky. He is born in the water, on earth, in the sacrifice,Continue reading

THE GUEST HOUSE   This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.   A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.   Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still,Continue reading

Humility is the understanding that one doesn’t know; or that, perhaps, there is more to know. The idea that one ‘knows’ has to be set aside, so that the mind is empty to receive. Sri M   There are certain things one can do to stay humble. Being in a body is one of them.Continue reading

All these small ideas that I am a man or a woman, sick or healthy, strong or weak, or that I hate or love or have little power, are but hallucinations. Stand up then. Know that every thought and word that weakens you in this world is the only evil that exists. Whatever makes usContinue reading