Expect to change yourself in order to change your life experience.

By our ideas on how others ‘ought to be’ we rod ourselves of the chance to know them for who they already are. – See beyond the limits of your expectations.

Beware of ‘god men’ and ‘god women’. Even people who have not been depressed for a day in their lives get sucked into the seductive delusion of spirituality. If you must seek, seek by yourself, sitting in an armchair at your desk after office hours. For while Buddha saw the light, we do not know...

Ultimately not one amongst usWill ever be denied that,The glimmer of a chance to shine.

Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.

My I love you was a measured response, like one gallon of coffee in one cup of sugar. It was just overflowing with an awakening of my soul.

Do not exalt any path above god. There are many paths that lead to god. So people are capable of finding and following the ways that suit them, provided they do not stand still.

Jelikož postrádáme univerzální spiritualitu, redukujeme ji na soupeřící náboženství, což je závažné snižování víry na subjektivní názor, nikoli duchovní moudrost a otevřenost, a na centralistické, autoritářské církevní instituce. Zeptejte se někoho na jeho náboženství a on vám s největší pravděpodobností řekne, ke které organizaci patří, čemu věří nebo do kterého kostela chodí. Nebude mluvit o...

As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the...

Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

When all humans have self-love, wouldn’t it be heaven on earth?

Feeling at home anywhere on earth, and a foreigner even in the country where I was born, I consider myself an earthling, a citizen of the world.I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute to make it what it is. I see the beauty in all expressions of life, and I see how blind...

No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.

The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God’s will and his grace.

You are guided!

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

Dance,’ they told me, and I stood still,and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I danced.’Pray,’ they said, and I laughed,covering myself in the earth’s brightnesses,and then stole off gray into the midst of a revel,and prayed like an orphan.

Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.

God is always trying to give blessings to us, but our minds are usually too full to receive them.

Let go of seeking and align yourself with source.

If you’re stressing over happiness, you’re doing it wrong!

If you truly loved someone you won’t become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel.

Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it.

Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!

Because the world is in a sick condition and we are all somehow infected, against our will, even if we think we are whole in mind and soul and body.

Only you are yours.

Become the difference you want to make,” and the heart of your mind will feel what the mind of your heart knows.

PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.

We typically misunderstand what’s wrong about consumerism. It’s not that it makes us love material things too much. To be a good consumer, you have to desire to get lots of things, but you must not love any of them too much once you have them. Consumerism needs children who do not stay attached to...

Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.

I am Love. You are Love. All that is real is Love.This is worth remembering,especially when you seem to be stuckin the middle of a challenging experience.

There be many gurus, and some good ones whom it is no great taskto differentiate, seeing that those who make the loudest claimare least entitled to respect. They who are the true guides intoKnowledge know that nothing can be taught, although the learnereasily can be assisted to discover what is in himself. Other thanwhich there...

Oh, would thatI had died the way the Sikh did! I can not go forward. I shallnot submit to being made to see more clearly than I do. Yet, ifI turn back I am self-confessed coward! Furthermore, how can Iturn back! How shall I reach India, alone, alive? As a corpse Ishould no longer interest...

To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of...

Therapy entails the conceptual machinery to ensure that actual or potential deviants stay within the institutionalized definitions of reality, or, in other words, to prevent “inhabitants” of a given universe from “emigrating”. It does this by applying the legitimating apparatus to individual “cases”. Since ever society faces the danger of individual deviance, we may assume...

Remember who you really are. You cannot be destroyed or hurt. You cannot be harmed or killed. You, the real you, will always be present and powerful.

The light needs only our trustAnd, of course, the darknessTo work its eternal alchemy.

The smiles of ancient soulsThat bless this,Our space to live and learnAnd urge us on to shine again…

Ik wilde niet aan haar denken en me op de mantra concentreren: MAAA, zei ik bij het inademenen en OEEMMM bij het uitademen. MAAA… het was vast al bijna twee uur… OEEMMM. MAAA… je zou het niet zeggen, maar die lotushouding zat niet echt lekker…OEEMMM. MAAAA… als ik Jakob en Janus eens over Ticha vertelde?...

Nou, Stanley Donne legde ons uit dat alle godsdiensten ter wereld, occulte broederschappen, alle mystici en sjamanen, of het nu Rozenkruisers, Ridders van de Ronde Tafel, Egyptische hogepriesters, Tibetaanse boeddhistishce monniken, Zuid-Amerikaanse naguals, Indiase yogi’s, Keltische druïden of discipelen van Jezus waren, allemaal hetzelfde doel nastreefden, namelijk om het bewustzijn van het individu dusdanig te...

[A Letter to the Culture that Raised Me] I’m not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I’m a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty...

For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannon build a sound basis of compassion. So in order to practice compassion, you should have an enemy.When you face your enemy who is going to hurt you,...

The thing you let Die within when you are Alive, will be carried with your Soul after Death.

The spiritual life (adhyatma-jivana), the religious life (dharma-jivana) and the ordinary human life of which morality is a part are three quite different things and one must know which one desires and not confuse the three together. The ordinary life is that of the average human consciousness separated from its own true self and from...

The more you understand your true spiritual identity, and your connection with the Supreme, the easier it will be to love your Self.

I did not tell Fat this, but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all, if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself.

It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern...

It’s not about saving humanity. It never has been.” Mantrella, THE WAKING GOD TRILOGY

Promises, like gardens need weeding from time to time to produce healthy results.

These fools who haven’t the slightest idea how to live the morals they espouse. These fools who proclaim themselves men of God, yet show not the slightest reverance to His word…Is it any different from a drunkard preaching temperance? A whore preaching modesty?