Taking part in your own creation is as simple as changing your mind. The way you think literally creates your everyday reality. Obsessive and negative thinking fosters a negative or even hostile lifestyle. Positive and...

Change happens for youthe moment you want somethingmore than you fear it.

We are condemned to be modern. We can’t escape the facts of our history or of living in an age dominated by instrumental rationality, even as we look for ways out of it… But it...

We’re shadows! of naught – living, dying! for what’s not.

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won’t be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It’ll be because people have changed. They’ll be like you, Puffin. More...

I am often impressed with those that admit their ignorance, for it is the first step towards breaking out of the prison called freedom.

See with a different eye, visualize with a colorful mind, manifest your thoughts with the energy within.

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda

I am LifeYour pure essence, spirit and seed of existence itself,That lies within you, longing to awaken and flourish.I am long before you and after you, never born, never die,timeless, without boundaries.I am pure unconditional...

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind – that is the reason he is still.

To hate the hate was just more hate; to reject the rejection was just more rejection; to judge the judging, just more judging.

You have eternity to experience your awakened self. So why not enjoy the dream while you’re in it, even if it is limited?

Knowing the Truth is not based on knowledge, but on being “it”.

An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.

We were wiser as children if not for anything else but for our ability to always reflect. Reflection is a powerful tool to move forward into an enlightened stage of wisdom. Children reflect everyday about...

The most incredible architectureIs the architecture of Self,which is ever changing, evolving, revolving and has unlimited beauty and light inside which radiates outwards for everyone to see and feel. With every in breatheyou are adding...

Jessica. For god’s sake,” he said. “Allow me to do at least one common courtesy for you. In spite ow what ‘women’s lib’ teaches you, chivalry does not imply that women are powerless. On the...

When you are truly awakened, you have completely stopped trying to become awakened. You simply are. You know that you did not locate awakening; awakening located you.

[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth.””No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all....

The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one’s emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can successfully step back from the potentially destructive and tune into the purely positive

There is nothing more enjoyable than being a member of an enlightened group of people that meets in complete darkness in complete secrecy. I have no idea why the other members joined, when they joined,...

The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.

Many people, through diverse spiritual practices and disciplines have sought enlightenment. Various phenomena, some of them potentially quite captivating, may occur along the path of spiritual development whether it leads to true enlightenment or not....

As much as we look up at the stars and know there is more than life on earth, the divinity of dogs is just as unexplainable and profound. They may be the purest example of...

Once again, we are reminded that awakening, or enlightenment is not the property of Buddhism, any more than Truth is the property of Christianity. Neither the Buddha nor the Christ belongs exclusively to the communities...

Education is provide enlightenment for one’s life.

It isn’t by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed...

If I could repeat it,people passing by would be enlightened and go free.

The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of “I” is false.

There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.

When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the...

An individual’s perception is their reality colored in the shades they desire–not necessarily the color that it is.

Satisfaction doesn’t come from needs and desires or fulfilling them, it comes from being yourself, being true.

Darwin caused controversy, not merely because his ideas contradicted Genesis, but because they fell foul of the way in which Genesis had been read by those influenced by the Enlightenment, for it was the Enlightenment...

Life sucks. Enlightenment is getting over it.

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to...

What is constant? Is the mind anything more than a conglomeration of thoughts? Where is the mind apart from thought? If there is no thought, can there be a mind? They cancel each other out,...

Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment.

Things do not happen to us… They happen because of us

No practice exists in isolation.

The purpose of life is to reach a point where you can say ‘yes’ to all of it.

Most humans are but beasts and bitches, till the One in All – this unconscious seeking, and conscious finding of it – ’em itches.

The strange thing about magic is how easily one can feel familiar with it. Much like a dream, its message can infill the senses of the soul and persuade the consciousness in a way that...

Enlightenment isn’t when you go there; it’s when there comes here.

A purpose derived from a false premise – that a deity has ordained submission to his will – cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals — solving our world’s problems through rational discourse, rather...

Enlightenment is not a goal to be attained, it is a state-of-being to be regained.

Love, not balance, brings enlightenment

When I did a therapist education in USA 1984, one of the course leaders – who had given personal and spiritual guidance to thousands of seekers of truth from all over the world, and who...

Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons.