For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Then,...

The greatest joy is knowing the Lord.

You see, unlearning is a very important process towards becoming enlightened, because in this life you will have learned wrong ways and those wrong ways that you have learned are barriers blocking you from becoming...

what is not true does not exist in this moment.

Always try and be a better person than you were yesterday, cause we aren’t guaranteed tomorrow.

Ignorance is bliss. Denial is the reaction to a painful truth.

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed.

Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things ‘as they are,’ or in the most universally comprehensible way, and not as projections of our own emotions. Thunder...

When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine’s Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was,...

Anything that appears and disappears cannot actually be you because it is being observed by you. By removing the attention from these things and noticing what remains, you are left only with what is permanent...

Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.

Removing toxicity from your life is essential to maintaining a peaceful state of mind and an overall quality of health. This purging can and should include any detrimental habits, including negative, controlling, and abusive people....

Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: ‘Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.

To the ego, love is poison.

In all humilitylet it be said -there’s no godin End Realitybut Onenessunto all is All -Whole’s Unity.

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

King Solomon’s Ring,” I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study of man as an animal. I have become increasingly disenchanted with...

Knowing others is Wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment

We are all blessed ones. Heaven is no longer in the clouds. It is right here, all around us, everywhere; we must only open our eyes to see it.

With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you – that’s my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage...

The fragrance of meditation is enlightenment.

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father’s. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he...

We are the reflections for the stars to gaze upon, upon a sea of glass.

I am an advocate of freedom for women. Options and the power to choose among them are crucial to our human dignity. And I am wholeheartedly an advocate of women’s human dignity. But we must...

Remember meditation is an active, deep remembrance, and that is discernment. Wherever you go, wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, remember to utilize discernment so that you can hear and sense and feel the vibration...

Simple shifts in points of view can open doors to expansions of consciousness as easily as rigid dispositions can close hearts and minds to such elevated awareness. It generally depends on whether you allow fear...

Note and Quote to Self – What you think, say and do!Your life mainly consists of 3 things! What you think, What you say and What you do!So always be very conscious of what you...

The true tragedy in most people’s lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.

Our lives are a divine expression no matter how messy and weird they may be. How much more meaningful can it get? The source is experiencing itself in form in a conscious, awake way.

Your only limitations are those that you impose upon yourself

Empathy” were subjects included in every grade school’s curriculum. A new generation would emerge with an attitude of peace, contentment and an overall appreciation for everything and everyone

To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to...

When you feel angry or frustrated at a brother for using a particular defense — being controlling or whatever it is — you are failing to forgive yourself for the very same attempt; you still...

When humanity finally emerges from the Middle Ages altogether, when he stops connecting psychic behavior with”the work of the Devil” or with some unknown, unmentionable force, then he will emerge into the New Age of...

Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on...

If peace comes from seeing the whole,then misery stems from a loss of perspective.We begin so aware and grateful. The sun somehow hangs there in the sky. The little bird sings. The miracle of life...

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world’s friend.

If one does not make an ego out of gender, one would still know whether one is a man or a woman, gay, straight, bisexual, transgender—whatever else we may think of. But those identities need...

Duality”. There is no moral value judgment applied in their perceptions. The moral value judgment continually creates an illusion of separation and disconnection. A balanced consciousness, with no dual perception is very integrative and all...

Life is a series of awakenings.

Israel’s monomaniacal Spinoza worship is amusing and exasperating by turns. For a start, his insistence that Spinoza was the singular font of the Enlightenment leaves him without a story of the Enlightenment’s intellectual or cultural...

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

When the Self is freed from mind there are no limits to what one can experience.

When you deeply love someone from that space that is beyond attachment to certain projections or desires, when you love someone just deeply, totally, completely, without any games that the mind or emotions play, then...

In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness.

HOPE is House Of Positive Energy

Acel gest simbolic de a o întrona pe Déesse Raison la Notre-Dame pare să fi însemnat pentru lumea apuseană ceva asemănător cu tăierea Stejarilor lui Wotan de către misionarii creştini, căci nici atunci, nici acum,...

Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now.

They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into...