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

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not...

God does not exist everywhere. Not in the temple, not in the mosque, not in the church and not everywhere. GOD was just there in your heart, in your mind.

In order to fulfill our wants we get busy to make our living comfortable and we forget about our needs, and we make our life uncomfortable. So, add ” life ” in our living.

If you stay on this path as long as I have, you’ll soon learn that the road to providence leads right through perdition. And along that road, the devil’s waiting to collect his pound of...

Embracing doubt is sometimes threatening, as we fear losing our faith if we explore our doubts. Following that thought, if one loses one’s faith, then as some religions dictate, that individual cannot enter heaven. Since...

Jay couldn’t fill that empty space with anything. Nothing brought him joy.

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

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes...

Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.

Though life may not always go the way you please, remember to always see the forest through the trees.