When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.

Success comes from finding your center and self.

Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun.

Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don’t look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

Biking and love do not make sense without your personal experience

Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, when asked how to strike a better balance between family, work and self-realisation says: “You need the intention, good scheduling, and you have to be creative. If you don’t find time to practice,...

Because all actions and expressionsstem from the mind, it is vital to know themind as well as decide in what way we’ll use it. Everyone has heard of psychosomatic illness, and most of us acknowledge...

For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts.

When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.

Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver.

Contemplation + action = breakthrough

Meditation is doing what you are doing – whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.

The art of sensuality encompassing the exploration and experiencing of all our senses… Those images are being born from and through living the moments of eating favorite chocolate cake with ice-cream, tranquil meditating, walking the...

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds...

While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of “being,” my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just...

One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will...

For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.

Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self in the story and more ability to rest in the awareness that is...

The New Man means to develop all the three dimensions of being, all the three doors to God: the head, the dimension of thinking, logic and reason, the heart – the dimension of joy, trust,...

Sexuality is the door to love, and love is the door to silence, to the divine.

I” is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the therapeutic process through his own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. He is present, available and responds...

Sant Mat (the path and teachings as taught and practiced by saints) delineates the path of union of soul with the Divine. The teachings of the saints explain the re-uniting as follows:The individual soul has...

Rousseau pensaba que era bueno estar solo a veces y que quizá nuestras naturalezas florecían con la máxima pureza en esas ocasiones.

In sitting meditation, our practice is to watch our thoughts arise, label them “thinking”, and return to the breath.

Only this actual moment is life.

Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling

As long as we take thought, we will continue to matter”.

Be patient and keep faith. It will all fall into place.

Morality is the foundation of sadhana. Morality is the base, intuition is the way and Life Divine is the goal

Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea.Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink.Is the glass part full or part empty?Take another sip.And now?

Without thoughts the mind cannot exist only consciousness

There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind.

You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

Through systematic meditation one can awaken the third eye and touch the cosmic awareness. Sushumna nadi is the subtle pathway in the spinal cord which passes through the main psychic centers. The awakening of these...

Some practice Yoga, some indulge in pleasures; some live in spiritual wisdom, some live in meditation. Some are bearers of the staff.

When you eliminate the Ego’s intense desire to be correct, the clarity of the moment can come through. How simple is that?

has no guts,” doesn’t it?

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.

But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising – up, up, higher, higher – then falling, crashing, swirling into chaos, passing...

He no longer grasped to a strong sense of self. To him life felt more like a dream, a cascade of cause and effect that was completely up for grabs-and he was no longer separate...

Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.

Smiles and kindness bring so much more than money can buy. Help and acceptance are all that is needed when you see someone cry.Open your eyes, and let everyone be free. Free to be you...

Whether one is remaining alert (mindfulness), focusing on a single thought or phrase (mantra), or mentally exploring ones inner world (visualization), all are one form of concentration or another.

Most of our healing occurs during quiet moments of rest when we are in contact with unconscious feelings and experiences. I can’t imagine life without the peaceful, insightful moments I have during meditation.

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

A cluttered mind can make the difference between a nightmare and a dream. Meditate and clear your thoughts before you sleep.

Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world.

As we discard a limited mind and a life of limitation to step into the grandness of vastness, we realize infinity itself to be the Guru and all that we do as grace. As we...