One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.

I’ve learned …. That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering a critical...

Nothing can be the total truth in the worlds of manifestation and the more solid your concepts, the more likely they are going to sink you, sooner or later.

You are a victim only when you have decided to play the part.

Finding the calmness or serenity in oneself effectively diffuses the judgments of others

People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they...

Wisdom may teach you that all places are one, but love shows you how to get there.

The mystic, identifying neither with his-her race-religion-gender nor with any mind-made blunder, lives and dies in One’s splendor.

Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky you can see the stars and still not see the light.

The difference between going where you are needed and going where you are called is purely based upon diligent prayer and the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever.

And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.

this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process. It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you...

Sex is the alpha and enlightenment is the omega. Sex is the first step of the spiritual journey, and enlightenment is the last step of the spiritual journey.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

Sometimes it’s good to let people swim in ocean of ignorance and let them struggle to the shores of enlightenment.

Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the activity where loving kindness is applied on all levels.

The world suddenly opened up, and she was coming to new realizations and a greater awareness, concerning the nature of reality, and the world, which her mortal mind had previously been unable to conceive. She...

Unless we take that first step into the unknown, we will never know our own potential!

Personal enlightenment within an individual is a beautiful and often shocking process. We are shocked when we see the shadows for the first time and realise these things are in us! But it is only...

So pervasively has Enlightenment culture’s anti-supernaturalism affected the Western church, especially educated European and North American Christians, that most of us are suspicious of anything supernatural.

We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where enlightenment lives. Our true nature is the unknown.

Questions are only offensive to those who have something to hide

To be whole simply requires paying attention to oneself

The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be.

Your desire and willingness will call forth witnesses to Awakening, and there is nothing in form that can speed up Awakening – for form but witnesses to the desire within.

Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.

Our Christian faith – and correlatively, our account of apologetics – is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism...

A Credo: For the 21st Century eudaimonas architect of choosing…choose. to. live.awakened. entirely. wholly.wildly powerful, deeply masterful, authentically creative,thriving. this is not a hoped-for possible self.[reminder: we were born this way]needing not to learn the skill of being...

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.

My foot slips on a narrow ledge; in that split second, as needles of fear pierce heart and temples, eternity intersects with present time. Thought and action are not different, and stone, air, ice, sun,...

Being more self-aware means welcoming more light into a dull life. When we throw light upon our self-perceptions, we immediately realise that the light has always been there, yet we had created an illusion of...

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, ‘Thy will be done.’ We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

It is neither cowardice nor betrayal to insist that the Enlightenment’s main lesson is to be mindful of how much it has left its inheritors to figure out.

a mutation of Spirit.” A new period must begin, and this is heralded by seismic movement, climate changes, and finally, above all, by the spirit that animates man.

When you are aligned with the truth of who you truly are, then you experience bliss.

The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor...

A leader is one who does not care about his rank and role but remains always responsive to lead, shoulder responsibility, and achieve the goal in such a way that everyone, in and outside the...

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but...

Realization is not about you, the wave, realizing it is ocean. The ocean realizes itself in you and reveals itself to have never been just a wave. Nothing changes except the falling away of a...

Dream Song:As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village.

control” (fueled by fear of loss) fools us into a false sense of security and love. At first glance, it is common to confuse the idea of Conscious Detachment with non-feeling or being cold, however...

I want certain conversations to come equipped with antilock brakes, especially if I’m talking to a real airbag.

If you want to see, then begin to see how you see.

If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo...

He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.

I am seeking spiritual awaken and enlightenment from the Creator.