1. You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth 2. You will be presented with lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called ‘life.’ Each day in this school you will have the...
Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying. If...
People who hate astrology assert that consulting a horoscope column or getting a reading from a professional astrologer is not a sound approach to making good decisions about one's life. The haters never follow up that assurance with a detailed revelation of what ARE...
On the Qualities of listening, presence and guruship. A beloved conversation with with one of my favorite – Gurus – Alan Cohen
I Want Both of Us To start talking about this great love As if you, I and the Sun were all married And living in a tiny room, Helping each other to cook, Do the wash, Weave and sew Care for our beautiful Animals. We all leave each morning To labor on the earth’s...
In Arabic, there are 12 levels of friendship. 1. Zameel — someone you have a nodding acquaintance with 2. Jalees — someone you’re comfortable sitting with for a period of time 3. Sameer — you have good conversation with them; this is where things get serious 4. Nadeem...
What (you might ask yourself) would a solitude be that didn’t have some greatness to it? For there is only one solitude, and it is large and not easy to bear. It comes almost all the time when you’d gladly exchange it for any togetherness, however banal and cheap;...
Celebrating the day you came into this world is fine But… Rather than ask How many years old am I or How many years do I have, Try Celebrating How many times you’ve told your partner, husband,son,daughter, yourself… I love you! Make merry On the many times have you...
We don't really long to find what we are looking for. We long to discover that we are already what we are looking for, even in the midst of feelings o f ugliness,failure weakness,insecurity, or total devastation. We actually long for all the things we are running away...