People who think they’re in the ordinary world of causality think that what they are, is the product of their past. No. The reality is that it’s the potentiality of what you’ve chosen to become that is pulling you into the present. So anybody listening to a program like this–it’s not because of what you’veContinue reading

Our group was in Nepal, building another school. And we always stay with families there. Never a hotel. And this family, the conditions were so poor. Their floor was cow dung. They had one piece of furniture – a bench in the kitchen so they could keep some things off the floor. The beds wereContinue reading

Peel away all the layers of an onion, and at the center you will find emptiness; peel away all the layers of a human being, and at the center you will find the seed of God.   I believe that God has to be known by looking in the mirror. Deepak Chopra, How to KnowContinue reading

The sense ‘I am’ is your own. You cannot part with it, but you can impart it to anything, as in saying: I am young. I am rich, and so on. But such self-identifications are patently false and the cause of bondage… the source of consciousness cannot be an object in consciousness. To know theContinue reading

Am I better off making up an alternate reality in my mind and then fighting with reality to make it be my way, or am I better off letting go of what I want and serving the same forces of reality that managed to create the entire perfection of the universe around me? Michael Singer, Continue reading

The ego’s survival relies on the defeat of [spiritual] truth… [S]piritual truth challenges the ego’s presumption that it is sovereign. David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.d, Discovery of the Presence of God The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe; to match your nature with Nature.  Joseph Campbell ItContinue reading

There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind – you are the one who hears it. Michael A. Singer,  The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself I’m sitting in the backyard, listening to the wind chimes and the rumble of the occasional airplane, trafficContinue reading

The ego believes that through negativity it can manipulate reality and get what it wants. It believes that through it, it can attract a desirable condition or dissolve an undesirable one.   If “you” — the mind — did not believe that unhappiness works, why would you create it? The fact is, of course, thatContinue reading

The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality. Isabel Allende, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon   So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.Continue reading