It would not be too strong to say that I felt sane for the first time in my life. And yet the change in my consciousness seemed entirely straightforward. I was simply talking to my...

There is more than enough for everyone. Any idea of lack and so its experience comes from fear. Fear powers greed, which encourages people to save for later just for themselves.

Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people.

The pain of childhood walks beside me as a friend, it teaches me how to invite the stillness of compassion – Shavasti

It is indispensable for us to undermine all faith, to tear out of the mind of the “goyim” the very principle of god-head and the spirit, and to put in its place arithmetical calculations and...

Know that God loves you very, very much. And remind others that they are loved too. If they don’t want to hear that God loves them, then tell them you love them. It will be...

Deep within ourselves, we find the inner being, the inner source of love, which is our true nature. Love is the only reality, because only love works.

I do not belong to any spiritual group or tradition. I am just interested in exploring what it means to live with open eyes. People in spiritual organizations also tend to get caught in ideas...

When I pursued an education in healing in the USA in 1984, I was told that I had the capacity to become a crownchakrahealer, a spiritual healer, to act as a channel and catalyst for...

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.

The water moves on, a little faster than before, yet still the great river flows. It is as fluid and unpredictable in its moods as it has ever been, but it meanders within familiar banks.

Ego is like an antivirus which eventually takes unwanted control of the computer itself.

For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breezeBy lakes and sandy shores, beneath the cragsOf...

We are spirit in human form playing a game called earth life. Enjoy the experience!

I keep hearing about a spiritual awakening, but I feel what we need instead is a human one. It would be wonderful and empowering to become free from the disillusionment and nonsense being sold to...

Community is about sharing my life; about allowing the chaos of another’s circumstances to infringe on mine; about permitting myself to be known without constraint; about resigning myself to needing others.

My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Christianised. After two hundred years of vain efforts and of spending millions of dollars with the...

[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...

I am sad, like the hot dust on the streetsAnd the music of fresh fallen leavesCaught in a sliding summer breeze.

Teach a child arithmetic,” he said at last, “and he can use it tocheat with, can’t he? Teach a man the laws and forces of theuniverse, and he can turn them against his teacher, can’t...

We will sing for you now, Edmund. It is the ocean’s wordless song of incomparable beauty. It is the song of the universe, the song of your past, the song of your future.”Edmund’s eyes were...

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

True spiritual love is not a feeble imitation and anticipation of death, but a triumph over death, not a separation of the immortal form from the mortal, of the eternal from the temporal, but a...

If you have ever successfully resisted getting angry, then you know what it is like to resist a demon.

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the...

When I discarded the idea that God was not a man (as I had been raised to think and believe without question), I grew distant, and the flame that once lit my path began to...

according to the whole”), truly universal, sacred, and unitive. It is made manifest by a unitive noosphere, one that embraces the Monosacred present in all Abrahamic, Indigenous, Chinese, Indian, and any and all other cultures....

Forgiveness, no matter your motive, is a dynamic of mutual healing.

We co-create when we reach out and touch souls. Like rays of light—where they converge—twice as bright.

Choose to not worry at all, freeing your creative mind and spirit to solve your problems.

In spiritual moments we nearly perceive a grand, divine conspiracy of interconnectedness between us and everything.

The truth can set you free, but when it comes, it’s more like a wrecking-ball than a holy beam of illumination.

The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.

Berhentilah sejenak. Renungkan, hayati, dan bertakwalah kepada Allah dalam urusan diri dan masa depanmu. Karena pada suatu masa, kamu akan menghadap Allah.

For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and mind detached from the sense objects is the cause...

All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.

Your body is a vessel for your experience, and you will be trapped until you realize that what the vessel looks like is not as important as what it can do.

I am not frightened of my beliefs. If there is a God who is threatening me with damnation because I don’t believe in Him, so be it. I’ve lived my life in conscience, and I...

I was asked by a concerned church-goer: “Is your relationship with God okay?” and I answered “My relationship with God is far better than yours. You have to be in a certain place, with a...

I believe that secularism is not the enemy of spirituality. Our spirits are in fact secular and free. But the enemy of your spirit is materialism which produces legalism. People scramble for the “perfect law”...

From yearning and wanting to grace and gratitude is a simple shift in belief and attitude!~

To the wizard death is merely a belief.

May all beings be free of pretended happiness.May all beings find their deepest lie.May all beings see the nature of their inner turmoil.May all beings realize what they are not.And through this, may all beings...

The point, I decided, wasn’t to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.

In the Church, bodily asceticism has always been the supreme road totheological knowledge. It is not possible for man to come to know the truth of life, the truth of God and the truth of...

Everything in the seen world is a dim reflection or representation of the unseen world.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

We have two minds. One thinks, the other knows. The mind that knows goes back many lifetimes. This is the mind of the one heart, of all things: the trees, the plants, the clouds, the...

We are all connected — I believed it then and believe it still now — at least in an energetic sense. And who’s to say this energy is not real? We can’t see gravity, either,...

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