Two chemicals called actin and myosin evolved eons ago to allow the muscles in insect wings to contract and relax. Thus, insects learned to fly. When one of those paired molecules are absent, wings will...

When you dig a well, there’s no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow,” said...

Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about...

Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience.

God descends to earth like fresh spring rain, and at every level his grace is received differently. For some it feels like love, for others like salvation. It feels like safety and warmth at one...

Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.

Nature loves efficiency, which is very odd for something supposedly working at random. When you drop a ball, it falls straight down without taking any unexpected detours. When two molecules with the potential for bonding...

One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The minute you say, “My memory isn’t what it used to be …” you...

There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to...

The whole banquet is in the first spoonful.

Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It’s not the popular ideal, it is the wizard’s love – the force that upholds life...

No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took a few steps before turning back. You followed some roads...

Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individual’s world by finding out at least one thing that is meaningful to his or her life and exchange at...

We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain and mind, genome and microbiome.

Asita had been raised on this knowledge. He knew also that all these planes merged into each other like wet dyed cloths hung too close on the line, the blue bleeding into the red, the...

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can’t name the tune.

We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain. The cortex is often called the new brain,...

The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.

The third component of the Law of Dharma is service to humanity–to serve your fellow human beings and to ask yourself the questions,”How can I help? How can I help all those that I come...

Situations seem to happen to people, but in reality, they unfold from deeper karmic causes. The universe unfolds to itself, bringing to bear any cause that needs to be included. Don’t take this process personally....

To the wizard death is merely a belief.

The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE

Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.

Wizards? Do you mean they do things a different way?””No, just the way we do,”Merlin replied.With a flick of his finger he lit the soggy heap of kindling that Arthur had gathered (…) A blaze...

Asita wasn’t hungry this day, however. There were other ways to keep the prana, or life current, going. If he did visit the demon loka, it would take enormous prana to sustain his body. There...

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.

it’s as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it’s impossible not to lead a spiritual life…the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief...

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet.It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there -buried under the 50,000 thoughtsthe average person thinks every day

If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.

The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices.

Practice silence and you will acquire silent knowledge. In this silent knowledge is a computing system that is far more precise and far more accurate and far more powerful than anything that is contained in...

it {romantic love} really isn’t about two people who have fallen madly for each other; it’s about two people seeing spirit in each other.

Wisdom tells us secrets before we have a right to know them. That’s the beauty of it. You don’t have to pray for wisdom or make yourself worthy of it. As with the concept of...

When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never even have imagined. The coincidences or little miracles that happen every day of...

When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.

We live as ripples of energy in the vast ocean of energy.

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.

Think Positive.

Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with…. Stop trying to steer the river.

Speaking generally, however, when you interact with someone else, you are doing outer work (physical time, play time, connecting time) … as many sociologists have pointed out, this area of life used to dominate everyday...

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in...

In God’s eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

The same faint song is heard in everything: “Behold yourself”.

And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren’t brains, you know.

I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn’t the truth; it’s what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

Customs change with time, so it isn’t fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don’t.