Praying is talking to God. Meditating is listening.

…your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited.

We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where enlightenment lives. Our true nature is the unknown.

We need dualities or opposites to appreciate, understandand recognize value and distinction in our lives. If we did not have bitter, we could not appreciate sweet….

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light.

This spirit or intelligence-energy in spirituality transmigrates to restart its journey, into yet another cycle of what we call life and death.

If the existence of Nuclear weapons has taught us anything it would simply be that just because we possess powerful technologies, it does not necessarily mean that we should use them. Unfortunately, we are currently...

A compulsive external search only leads us to the interpretation of another’s path. True identity and sustained harmony can only be achieved by turning inward, and it is there that you will find every answer...

Prostration: placing the body in reverence, to submit, to surrender. In many faiths it is used to relinquish the ego. In Tibetan tantric Buddhism they do one hundred thousand prostrations to overcome pride. In Islam,...

We have not advanced very far in our spiritual lives if we have not encountered the basic paradox of freedom, to the effect that we are most free when we are bound. But not just...

When we fail to believe the truth about who Jesus is and miss the impact of His astounding work in suffering and dying for our sin, it will be impossible to resist the allurement of...

Our parents were our first gods. If parents are loving, nurturing, and kind, this becomes the child’s definition of the creator. If parents were controlling, angry, and manipulative, then this becomes their definition.

Too many Christians reverse New Covenant commands as we seek, through condemnation of the world, the return of the never-existent, demonic myth of the “Christian Nation”!

The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler.

Rumi and Shams taught us how to see the world with new eyes, how to find our place in the order of things, and how to extricate the true self trapped under layers of noise.

She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful ways that from the first moment one began to love all...

Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.

Grace is waiting for you. It’s always there. It’s always waiting. It doesn’t pokes holes into our lives. We are the ones who poke the holes and let the light in, let the magic in....

Love is all that awaits you.

The idea of Christian perfection, which began in the ancient monasteries and spread to the world as an ideal, is one of the most appealing, demanding and ultimately hopeless notions of the spiritual life. By...

As consciousness expands, so does perception of self.

The unqualified affirmation of the univeral will of salvation has radically changed the way of conceiving the mission of the Church in the world. . . . The work of salvation is a reality which...

For while spirituality has the dynamic to transcend and transform culture, it invariably expresses itself in and through culture.

It is commonplace, and true, to point out that animals are happier than people because they live entirely in the present.

Our ultimate goal is to be fully present for life. It takes practice

Great soul; start and end your day with God.

Beliefs divide us, values unite us.” from Godless – Living a Valuable Life beyond Beliefs

I used to be terrified of death. My grandfather was terminal in the hospital across from my high school, yet I never visited him. That fact still haunts me to this day. Years later, my...

The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawud’s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangir’s big Mohawk rising from a sea of kufis, Amazing Ayyub still with no shirt, girls...

How quickly pettiness returns, and that most ignoble form of real estate, the possessive occupation and tyranny over two square inches of human flesh, the wife’s cunt.

It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure.

The problem is not that you have problems; the problem is that you see having problems as a problem.

There are things you can’t reach. ButYou can reach out to them, and all day long.The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god.And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier.I...

Nature streamlines the soul connectionwith the divine.

I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in...

The shortest and the hardest journey to make is the inner one.

The Light is always there. How much light comes to you depends on you.

oh darling, The darkness is a gift, And when you realise this, You will never be defeatedAgain.

Faith is like automobile insurance. It need to be in place before there’s a crisis.

…organized religion is no longer good news for most people, but bad news indeed. It set us up for the massive atheism, agnosticism, hedonism, and secularism we now see in almost all formerly Christian countries.

Whatever happens, love that.

No busques valores absolutos en el mundo relativo de la naturaleza

Awe is what moves us forward.

There are no coincidences and no mistakes. Every role has a purpose and every path has merit. Everything we do and experience is for learning to remember our connection with God.

Total Enlightenment is ‘Vision without Purpose’.

We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

Some nonreligious people are disgruntled by the word “faith,” feeling that it has no connection to them. But we all have faith. Broadly speaking, “faith” does not apply only to belief in the supernatural. We...

Understand that fire fought with fire does only increase the heat.

I’m not telling you to be quiet. I’m just saying that if you speak a little softer, we both might just hear what peace sounds like.

When we talk to our fellow men and they tell us about their troubles, we will listen to them carefully if we have love for them. We will have compassion for their suffering and pain,...