Peace and supreme joy may seem like end-states to practitioners on more difficult spiritual paths, but the path of devotion should be filled with peace and joy from the very beginning. Their absence is an...

Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it’s just the perceptions that...

I’m more materialistic about myself than I am about objects

When everything gets answered, it’s fake.

The mother is the child’s first relationship, his whole world, his existence. If there is love in the relationship between the child and the mother, the child learns to trust himself, to trust others and...

We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.

Presence is the capacity to be present for another person with an open heart and to be grounded in our inner being. It is to be present for another person as a supporting light, as...

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be pure and spiritually strong and educated, then alone will misery cease in the world,...

The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body and flee earth with its constant heartbeat of...

It knows you.Every soul is connected to it in the same way-nobody is closer farther.Doesn’t matter what your beliefs were in that life or any of them.Only the soul can create distance between itself and...

non-paper elements,” like mind, logger, sunshine and so on, there will be no paper. As thin as this sheet of paper is, it contains everything in the universe in it.

Arthur, you mustn’t feel that I am rude when I say this. You must remember that I have been away in strange and desert places, sometimes quite alone, sometimes in a boat with nobody but...

Spirituality is the poetry of our experience. Science is the gauge of our reality. Together, they create the essence of our humanity.

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.

Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its future birth. Thus if one wants to attain god after...

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,...

In any ten step instruction manual and every book of doctrines, there is complex advice that serves the very simple function of helping the lonely person find some similarity with the world around him.He connects...

If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.

Ibn Mas’ud said that Allah’s Messenger said: Abusing a Muslim is sinful and fighting with his tantamount to Kufr. Bukhari Muslim

I don’t really care if people forget me. My legacy wasn’t about me. It was about everything I could do for another. When that sinks in…well you try a little harder. You dream a little...

To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart.

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

A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right.

Someday the Sun will explode, and what about our journalism and poetry then? Well, so what? To hell with our exploding Sun. We have to do what we can do in the time we can...

To bring about the new takes not just a development of the old, but a radical leap forward – revolutionary and transforming – and that requires extra factors that were not present before.

Zen movement is a meditative practice.

Spirituality will take you like love; it seduces you from contemplation to completeness.

Observing the stream of eternal and simple truth is the same for all who look upon the fountainhead of consciousness.

The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories — love lives in the present.

Your strength is beyond your own imagination.

You are never more alive than when you are enraptured by pain.

Om (AUM) the Divine song is at the same time Symmetry, Supersymmetry, broken Symmetry, and the unbroken Symmetry of Nature.

IT’S NOT ONLY YOU BUT HE TOO IS LOOKING FOR YOU.OPEN YOUR EYES TO LIFE AND CONSCIOUSNESS.

Then he realized: ‘I, indeed, am this creation; for I have poured it forth from myself.’ In that way he became this creation. And verily, he who knows this becomes in this creation a creator.

You are sheep among wolves; be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.

I’ve decided that if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets; I wouldn’t only jettison my hot water bottle, raincoat,...

There is only gain when you love Nature so profoundly, the richness is everlasting , however much spent’.

In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time, you will find that you are a privileged child of the universe, entirely safe, entirely supported, entirely loved.

Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane that is— he used to tell me, ‘If I know a man’s sound, I know the man.’...

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I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul.

Sur un fond de ciel bleu azur, les rayons jaune orangé d’un soleil couchant peuvent, à certains mo-ments privilégiés, nous régaler d’un instant d’une telle beauté, que nous en restons momentanément ébahis, le regard fixe....

The only power that can effect transformations of the order (of Jesus) is love. It remained for the 20th century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For...

We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that.

History does seem to repeat itself hence it’s mindboggling to still hear the ‘avoid all negative people’ speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual teachers. Ironically, their congregations would probably be the ones hiding...

Angry obsessive thoughts about another weaken your state of mind and well being. If you must have revenge, then take it by choosing to be happy and let them go forever.

You will always have time for what you make time for

Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.

If true acts of worship must be sincere without expecting anything, it should not need to be able to offer the promise of anything

The mechanism by which spirituality becomes passionate is metaphor. An ineffable God requires metaphor not only to be imagined but to be approached, exhorted, evaded, confronted, struggled with, and loved. Through metaphor, the vividness, intensity,...