God is creating the entire universe, fully and totally, in this present now. Everything God created...God creates now all at once. - Meister Eckhart, Christian mystic The universe emerges out of an all-nourishing abyss not only twelve billion years ago but in every...
It is only when you are constantly learning that you find truth, and you cannot inquire, observe,learn, you cannot be deeply aware, if you are afraid. So the foundation of education, is to eradicate, inwardly as well as outwardly, this fear that destroys human...
Meditation is not something different from daily life, do not go off into the corner of a room and meditate for ten minutes, then come out of it and be a butcher-both metaphorically and actually. Meditation is part of life, not something different from life....
Teacher: We want you to learn these teachings so deeply that they lie upon your heart. Student: Why don't you just put them in our hearts? Teacher: That's not our job. We just place them on the surface. Then, when your heart breaks, they fall in. ---Buddhist story,...
“Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is to not ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something. And it is only...
Whatever you become, my child, may it be rooted in grace. Whatever your path through life, May it offer you steepness and rough places, so that you do not become complacent. 'Nothing is owed to you, but everything is available to you, Even the decision to do nothing...
Simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest art to be simple, and so acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the acid test of one's whole outlook on life. That I feed the beggar, that I forgive an insult,...
Good morning Grandfather I entered this life a ways back And put skin on to walk two-legged On this creation And what a glorious time it was It taught me about breath And about sense and feeling And caring through my heart And I walked on Around that red road Looking...
Vaults hidden in the hills of the Himalayas, dust covered scrolls in caves hidden for centuries, protected wisdom once relegated to only a few have been made available now to the "common man". The tool of the internet dispersing these thoughts to more than ever...