believe” it in the abstract; like any mythos, it depended upon the rituals associated with the cult of a particular holy place to make what it signified a reality in the lives of participants.The same...

I believe the experiences reported in this book are reproducible by anyone who wishes to try. I went to Africa. You can go to Africa. You may have trouble arranging the time or the money,...

No matter how you arrive at the awareness and belief that you’ve lived before and will live again, the most lasting healing benefit will be the change in your attitude. You are creating your future...

Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me...

Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which...

Have confidence. Like the first spark of morning light against the entire night sky recognize the Power and Brilliance within you.

Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become unhappy and peevish because they don’t find the consolation they want in spiritual...

Never worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my...

Knock, And He’ll open the doorVanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sunFall, And He’ll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.

Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it–and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the...

What I’m asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

Many people ask how to heal an aching heart. I ask in return how does one release the attachment to the aching?

When we are in touch with our creativity, through passion and excitement, we always put ourselves in the most expansive state of consciousness. Fear slows down our development, while love supports a rapid growth.

That which is worth telling is not worth having.

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.

People’s love for us may change, depending on what we do or don’t do to please them. But God’s does not—it’s everlasting.

The Art of Living is to be yourself. It is to be true to yourself. The Art of Living is learning to live with love, awareness and truth. Meditation is the way to learn The...

Sex is the alpha and enlightenment is the omega. Sex is the first step of the spiritual journey, and enlightenment is the last step of the spiritual journey.

When I did a therapist education in USA 1984, one of the course leaders – who had given personal and spiritual guidance to thousands of seekers of truth from all over the world, and who...

It is true ayahuasca that has the potential to change everything and allow you to see the world in a different way. It’s just that from within the perspective of the person undergoing the changes...

Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was...

If I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed...

History has been written, but it has not always been right or complete.

She said, “Well, that’s right, she’s going to heaven very soon. And now it’s time for us to say good-bye to her and tell her how much we love her.”Mary martha nodded and looked at...

I am walking down to the oak tree. AndI see that the tunnel is slightly wet, butI jump inand walkslowlythrough the lava tube.It is fairly dark, but I see in the far distance,like a pinhead,a...

Potential: a bridge between ask and grasp.

If you are still worried, it means, you have not surrendered yet !

Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained.

To have been where you have beenAnd to still have joy,Dazzling in your heart,Now there’s a thing to make the whole world smile.

We usually need to have pain, trial or challenge to be motivated to learn or change. Learning in the midst of ease and prosperity comes from the pure inner soul’s inspired desire for improvement.

Love is that which gives of itself, not because anyone needs it or deserves it, but because that is what love does.

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

If you’re stressing over happiness, you’re doing it wrong!

Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when the unparalleled lyrical grace, philosophical brilliance, and spiritual daring of his...

I am a living soul dwelling on a planet that is afloat in a universe radiant with life. I feel so small and at the same time so uniquely privileged to partake in that inconceivable...

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Nothing in any religious teachings goes beyond Humanism, unless you add the supernatural…Make believe is the only difference between being human and being religious.

…the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

But we as a culture have lost the deep intuitive understanding that Creation exists on many levels. We have succumbed to the scientific viewpoint. Nothing characterizes ‘the modern world’ more completely than the loss of...

Don’t give-up on your greatest masterpiece — you.

In the inconceivably vast and humbling unknown called “everything”, is a supreme inter-communication called, spirituality.

When someone is hard on you it may have very little to do with you.

There is an enlightened way to flow with, in, and through conflict.

When you are avoiding your pain you are really only avoiding your growth.

No spiritual master who ever walked the earth has anything on you. You’re the complete package, the real deal. You just don’t remember it yet.

How many ills, how many infirmities, does man owe to his excesses, his ambition – in a word, to the indulgence of his various passions! He who should live soberly in all respects, who should...

Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.

The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.

One day, you will find yourself close to the end, and thinking about the beginning. TODAY is that beginning. TODAY is life. You’ve got to live it.Live for what’s right. Live for what you believe...

Change your mind and change your whole life experience.