who we are” fuel our sense of separateness

To discover where God lives and how easily accessible He is to you is to be transformed from a life of daunting challenges and hopelessness to a life of boundless possibilities.

…spirituality alone will not take a man far in the Mysteries; he must have intellectual powers as well.

Silence composes the music of the cosmos; darkness sees it dance.

You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves.

The 2 extremes, neither one worse than the other: the result of bad religion is self-loathing and violence; the result of bad spirituality is self-worship and narcissism.

An apology can be a wonderful thing so long as it is infrequent and from the heart. However, beware of the person who justifies bad behavior with apologies. For them it is a means to...

Loneliness is a condition of energetic imbalance. As with all human conditions it is an illusion, albeit a very debilitating one if left unchecked. The key to overcoming any imbalance is to open your awareness...

You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn about our lives and purpose!

You will treasure each momentwhen you realizewho is handing it to you.

Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.

HOPE! Unbreakable, undeniable, irrevocable hope!

Rigid traditions capture soulsprisons of spiritual thoughtman’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.

I had thought so onceThat it was I who saw in your eyesThe raindrops pinging on the windows;Hearing only with earsThe stars and the rain;Now that I truly open my eyes and earsI realize that...

There’s plenty of food, other than non-vegetarian, here, on this earth. So, don’t hurt, kill and eat animals to increase your girth

The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic. ‘Toxic’ comes from toxicon, Pendell tells us, with a root...

Time is just quantified eternity.

The glass is neither half empty, nor half full. The glass is just a glass and it’s content can perpetually change with your perception.

We have between 60,0and 80,000 thoughts a day. That’s a thought every 1.2 seconds…but we are not our thoughts – we have thoughts. Just like a cell phone is not our texts…it receives texts but...

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind...

I bought salvation from a man on the street. He said, “Go down to the beach and let the waves wash your feet.

In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are taken for the things themselves. What we barely understand is explained...

We are, all of us, always only one breath or softening of our thought away from an invasion of divine wonder and fresh miracles. Soul waits for any small opening of our hearts to steal...

real.” That is, when we imagine things, we are just making them up. In the spiritual life, though, there are some realities that cannot manifest unless we begin by imagining them.

Sometimes the best answer to a question is another question. Is it not by asking questions that we stimulate each other to reach more deeply into our own source and, thereby, approach the Source, both...

~Remember this always:Your body and mind can be broken, but your Spirit, is unbreakable, and unchangeable~When we talk about people or circumstances breaking our spirit, what we mean is that a person has been affected...

God is light. God is life.

Who are you?

when the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need

Less possessing-less possessed.More possessing-more possessed.More possessed-less accessed.Less possessed-more accessed.

I am intrigued with scriptural mythology that tells us that God created a divine feminine presence to dwell amongst humanity. This concept has had a constant influence on the work. I have imagined her as...

Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave and eats a bread it does not harvest. Pity the nation that...

If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of...

Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh…the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will take place in future.

If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind,...

Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness

… without the incarnation, Christianity isn’t even a very good story, and most sadly, it means nothing. “Be nice to one another” is not a message that can give my life meaning, assure me of...

The movement of descent and discovery begins at the moment you consciously become dissatisfied with life. Contrary to most professional opinion, this gnawing dissatisfaction with life is not a sign of “mental illness,” nor an...

Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

It’s time to launch yourself into that bigger life using your full capacities and with the light of our spirit shining brightly.

As you look back on your life, you will often realize that many of the times you thought you were being rejected from something good, you were in fact being redirected to something better. You...

Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality…an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to...

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With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you – that’s my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage...

We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That’s it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

In the Garden story, good and evil are found on the same tree, not in separate orchards. Good and evil give meaning and definition to each other. If God, like us, is susceptible to immense...

A positive response to any situation is the key to the feeling of well-being. The more we practice it the easier it becomes. Gradually all automatic reactions are being replaced by a conscious response. When...

You are meant to be, despite how you got here; you’ll see someday.

It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)