Religion is also a process of healing, I discovered – a healing of the soul. Even our language pointsto this relation. The words ‘holy’, ‘wholesome’ and ‘healing’ all have the same root. (In German, thisis...

Truth, one and the same be,Wise describe it differently

Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face.Hello, you who made the morningand spread it over the fieldsand into the faces of the tulipsand the nodding morning glories,and into the windows of, even, themiserable...

Look at your life as your main career and your divine classroom.

I want to be a woman who lives totally abandoned to the first commandment: to love my Lord, my God, with all my heart. I don’t want the reputation that I love God, I don’t...

Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because...

Someone who begins to develop an interest in the teachings can tend to distance themselves from the reality of material things, as if the teachings were something completely apart from daily life. Often, at the...

Religion is the secret of life. It teaches us to love, to serve, to forgive, to endure, and to interact with our brothers and sisters with empathy and compassion. Advaita (non-duality) is a purely subjective...

Kindness in your dealings with yourself and others will work wonders in your life. Much more so than rightness in your thinking.

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

Kebahagiaan bukan soal harta, tetapi soal jiwa insani yang kehausan kasih dan cinta ILAHI.

Today you are encouraged to accept your failures. When you are willing to fail miserably, you are able to achieve greatly. Admitting your mistakes and weaknesses doesn’t diminish your strength, it shows your courage and...

To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.

Orthodoxy as right belief will cost us little; indeed, it will allow us to sit back with our Pharisaic doctrines, guarding the ‘truth’ with the purity of our interpretations. But orthodoxy, as believing in the...

Everybody comes with prejudices, colored glasses on their eyes. Then they see everything colored according to their glasses. Yes, a few people come just like you, unprejudiced, without any idea gathered from yellow journalism.

God’s love supersedes all religions and it is the core of all religions.

I have been waiting for many lifetimes to recognize that I am worthy and in one brief conversation I learned that I am simply because I was born. Worthiness is not earned, it is given...

Calligraphy, a spiritual art that has been forgotten in favor of an emotionless keyboard.

I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of an emotion—the average time it takes for it to move through the nervous...

We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other.

When we forgive someone, it doesn’t justify what they’ve done. It releases them into God’s hands so He can deal with them.

Whatever you do, put your inner work first.

As we look into a clear night sky, we see just a fraction of what the universe contains. This applies to human behavior too. As we look at a person, we only see a fraction...

Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us.

The Hindus believe that in the beginning was sound, a pure vibrational ohm, and as I surf these wave emanations I feel like I’ve locked onto the fundamental frequency. Seconds go by on the outside...

…what science cannot explain is the psychic effect of this ‘mother of all plants,’ the sense of the numinous and the spiritual world it reportedly opens up. Those who drink say that each ayahuasca journey...

Although she is far apart from me, but still we are living in the same air and under the same moon, when she breath i take her breath through the air to the core of...

To be religious is to have an obligation to a particular religion, but to be truly spiritual is to have a commitment to your soul.”-Serena Jade

It’s true, I suffer a great deal–but do I suffer well? That is the question.

If we didn’t have shadow we’d just sit around loving the light, likely doing nothing with it.

inherited by the world,interconnected by the youth;Mind,Body,Spirit.Believe in it

Do you have any advice for your readers?Lead the life that’s yours instead of faking someone else’s.

We must learn, then, not to HAVE a spirituality, something we turn on at a particular place or time, but to BE spiritual, as a habit of life, a continuous state of being. It is...

As the last enemy, death is to be brought to nothing.

The gilded spiralOf longings within.Our very own cathedralThat points persistently to heaven.

Of every ten who tread the Middle Way to Knowledge there are ninewho turn aside through avarice, though not all avarice is born ofbelly-hunger or the greed for gold. Some seek preeminence, sucheminence as they...

History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal...

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

The world suddenly opened up, and she was coming to new realizations and a greater awareness, concerning the nature of reality, and the world, which her mortal mind had previously been unable to conceive. She...

Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation.” (p.232)

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the...

Many young activists tend to resist spirituality, thinking that religion has nothing to do with social change and is, in fact, part of the problem.

As a servant of love every exchange passes through the practice.

Unconscious people are spiritually stunted, effectively encasing their unique brilliance in a psychological tumor.

Want is small and will make you small. Want is needy and will make you needy.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

Pain is a horribly wonderful gift.

We never stopped being each other.

For sense gratification, a man in the mode of passion wants some honor in society, or in the nation, and he wants to have a happy family, with nice children, wife and house. These are...