The ego is an endless wantingness, cravingness, desiringness, and because that’s its nature, it can’t be satisfied. You can’t satisfy the ego because you’d have to change its nature. You can’t get enough approval, because you’d have to have every person on earth bow down to you. It wants to be God. What the egoContinue reading

Liminal space is an inner state and sometimes an outer situation where we can begin to think and act in new ways. It is where we are betwixt and between, having left one room or stage of life but not yet entered the next. We usually enter liminal space when our former way of beingContinue reading

We take subjectivity for granted. We take the Field for granted. We take consciousness for granted… [Yet] this is what we are. We ignore what we are in return for focusing on that which we are not. At this very instant, 99% of your mind is silent… The reason you don’t notice it is becauseContinue reading

The mind… observes the so-called outside world and sees its own structure… In a word, the mind looks at unity and sees diversity; it looks at what is timeless and reports transience. And in fact the percepts of its experience are diverse and transient; on this level of experience, separateness is real. Our mistake isContinue reading

n the beginning, the Creator stood alone. He had no happiness when alone. Through meditation He brought into existence many creatures. He looked on them and saw they were without understanding, like a lifeless post, like a stone. He had no happiness. He thought: “I shall enter within, that they may awake.” Making Himself likeContinue reading

It is through your ignorance alone that the universe exists. In reality you are one. There is no individual self or Supreme Self other than you. ASHTAVAKRA SAMHITA, XV.16,  translated by Swami Nityaswarupananda   Life is not for sissies. Especially now, in the time of coronavirus. Things fall apart, society comes unglued, life becomes unbearable;Continue reading

The universe is programmed to manifest, through you, the highest possibilities for your creativity and joy. And that never, ever changes. In God’s Mind you are never too old; in God’s Mind you are never inadequate; in God’s Mind you are not your resume or your failures. In God’s Mind, there is no mistake thatContinue reading

The law of the conservation of life: Like the law of the conservation of energy and matter, life cannot be destroyed. You cannot destroy life, and therefore death is not a possibility. Life can change form, but death is not possible. David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., Transcending the Mind: The Ego and the Self   InContinue reading

With absolute humility, the ego dissolves. It is a collection of arbitrary mental processes that gain force only because of vanity and habit. If one lets go of the vanity of thought, it dissolves. All thought is vanity. All opinions are vanities. The pleasure of vanity is therefore the basis of the ego–unplug it andContinue reading