Society destroys your individuality, your soul.

Outer relationships with a man or a woman are a mirror of the relationship between our own inner man and woman. Embracing our own inner man and woman means to understand the inner drama that...

Are you seeing Jesus yet? Eric the ayahuasca virgin asks me this morning over a late brunch at the Yellow Rose… We’re trading visions like trading card stats, comparing our different curanderos and gossiping like...

Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote...

taught as one who has authority.

Myths are, in fact…neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world and our place in it.

One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. Say, “I love you”, “I’m sorry”, “I appreciate you”, “I’m proud of you”…whatever you’re feeling. Send...

Saints and mystics, revelations, origin myths, and heroes’ journeys, as well as ethical and spiritual guidelines, speak to us from ancient times and far-flung lands and peoples.

Wander around wonder for awhile and awaken wisdom within.

Mind, breath and kundalini are connected; handle one, the other two gets affected automatically.

Faith is a journey

Once spun,The silken thread of all our aspirationsRemains intact,It can never be broken.

We all have different paths. Sometimes we do not know why we gravitate towards one another, sometimes we do. As for myself, I put my everything into any relation and I love and give because...

Life is relationship and the best form of relationship is friendship.

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define...

What you feed your soul is what you harvest with your actions.

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.

reality isn’t the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

People are like vines that grow upwards to the Sun in the heavens. Our ascent is inspired by seeking a deep connection with the divine. When we are attracted to others, we are attracted to...

hasn’t got a damn thing to do with anything, ‘cause all it has to do with is nothing. Nothingness. Okay? It doesn’t develop the mind, it dissolves the mind. Self-improvement? Forget it, baby. It erases...

Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in...

Certainly–and we can all agree on this, whether we are atheists, theists, panentheists–the future is doing the calling. The unborn children, our great-great-grandchildren are doing the calling. A mere seventy-five years from now they’re going...

When we keep our silence we gather our power; when we speak we let loose the concentration of quiet reverie.

If you are pure in intention and in alignment with beauty and love, in body and mind, the highest levels of your spiritual self will subsume your weaknesses.

You will never make people happier than by being a happy person yourself.

People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot.

Pain is the clarion of aliveness trumpeting that you are living in the marvelous tender cause of life!

Love transforms pleasure into pain.

I have found that we need to maintain relationships with all spheres of society: the local community, politicians from all parties, business leaders, artists, and farmers….We don’t favor one kind of person over another, or...

Help” is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn’t matter how you pray–with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages...

Physicists explain creation by telling us that the universe began with the Big Bang, an intense energy singularity that continued expanding. But pray, please do explain who created the singularity?

I do not consider myself a religious person, because I don’t adhere to a particular religion or faith or prescribed beliefs, as did my father, who was a Baptist minister. And I am not an...

A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in...

Accept every day as a beautiful mystery. Don’t try to control everything or worry about the things you can’t control. If you do, you are setting yourself up for a lifetime of frustration and misery....

The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the highest spiritual life absolutely demands the renunciation of sexuality, as if the knowledge of God were an alternative to the knowledge of...

it’s as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it’s impossible not to lead a spiritual life…the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief...

Be alone and love it. Be lonely and hate it. The first will empower you; the later will destroy you. Become your own best friend and never be lonely again.

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?

…the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community was to open the heart, explore the mystery of union,to fiercely search for and try to say the truth,and to celebrate the glory and difficulty in being...

Realization is the direct seeing that this entity you have believed yourself to be has its roots in something infinitely vast and that this entity is not separate from that vastness, the source, the absolute.

Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said, “Where there is no money, there is no learning.” The rabbis explain that unless people’s stomachs are full and satisfied, they cannot study, grow spiritually, and do good works.

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance...

Meditation is an excellent habit and tool for transformation, however your ‘practice’ should eventually evolve into your natural primary state of being.

know” it will not work, then you have successfully strengthened the problem at hand

You know you have received the invitation when your heart is ready to risk everything to hold the hand of God.

The degree to which your Consciousness expands, is the degree to which you understand yourself and the universe.

… the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.

There are two ways of thinking. One is living life based on fear. The other is trusting. Letting go and allowing trust to control our lives takes mental gymnastics.

Your spirit lives on in your work. YOU decide what manner of work that will be.