Authors S-Z
The Look of Tragedy
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom
God Consciousness In Physical Reality
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Arthur Young
Arthur Young
Your Message, Your Sign, Your Omen
What is happening in your world is your message, your sign, your omen...Learn to read what is in front of you. All you seek to “know” (the answers) are in the way you live, love, and respond to life.
Unknown
Unknown
To Make A Path
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Human Angel
If you have a vision of heaven on earth and you want to radiate it to everyone you encounter, you are probably a Human Angel and you are just trying to remember.
We Are Human Angels, the book
We Are Human Angels, the book
You Empower
What you love, you empower.
And what you fear, you empower.
And what you empower, you attract.
Author Unknown
And what you fear, you empower.
And what you empower, you attract.
Author Unknown
We Can No Longer Live For Ourselves Alone
Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
We Are Members Or Structures Of
We have lacked the real humility of recognizing that we are members of the biosphere, the ‘harmony of contained conflicts’ in which we cannot exist at all without the cooperation of plants, insects, fish, cattle, and bacteria. In the same measure, we have lacked the proper self-respect of recognizing that I, the individual organism, am a structure of such fabulous ingenuity that it calls the whole universe into being.
Alan Watts
Alan Watts
Mind-Stuff
Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real.
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
Life Itself Is Truth
All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
Morihei Ueshiba
Morihei Ueshiba
The Universe's Deepest Mysteries
Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
The Tao
When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.
Chuang Tzu
Chuang Tzu
To Achieve Fearlessness
Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.
Isa Upanishad
Isa Upanishad
You Are Not A Stranger
If you awake from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself. Not conceive but feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can really begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself. So, say in Hindu mythology, they say the world is the drama of God. God is not something in Hindu mythology with a white beard that sits on a throne, that has royal prerogatives. God in Indian mythology is the self, Satchitananda, Which means SAT, that which IS, CHIT, that which is consciousness; that which is ANANDA is bliss. In other words, that which exists, reality itself is gorgeous, it is the fullness of total joy.
You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
Alan Watts
You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
Alan Watts
The Distance of Two Hearts
A Hindu saint who was visiting River Ganges to take bath found a group of family members on the banks, shouting in anger at each other. He turned to his disciples smiled and asked, “Why do people shout in anger shout at each other?”
The disciples thought for a while. One of them said, “Because we lose our calm, we shout.”
“But why should you shout when the other person is just next to you? You can as well tell him what you have to say in a soft manner?” asked the saint.
More disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the other disciples.
Finally the saint explained, “When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other to cover that great distance.”
“What happens when two people fall in love? They don’t shout at each other but talk softly, because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is either nonexistent or very small.”
The saint continued, “When they love each other even more, what happens? They do not speak, only whisper and they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they even need not whisper; they only look at each other and that’s all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.”
He looked at his disciples and said, “So when you argue, do not let your hearts get distant. Do not say words that distance each other more, or else, there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return.”
Unknown
The disciples thought for a while. One of them said, “Because we lose our calm, we shout.”
“But why should you shout when the other person is just next to you? You can as well tell him what you have to say in a soft manner?” asked the saint.
More disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the other disciples.
Finally the saint explained, “When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other to cover that great distance.”
“What happens when two people fall in love? They don’t shout at each other but talk softly, because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is either nonexistent or very small.”
The saint continued, “When they love each other even more, what happens? They do not speak, only whisper and they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they even need not whisper; they only look at each other and that’s all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.”
He looked at his disciples and said, “So when you argue, do not let your hearts get distant. Do not say words that distance each other more, or else, there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return.”
Unknown
Suffering Relationships
Relationships do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you.
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
What You Already Know
I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
The All 2
The Soul dwells within all that exists; it is the truth of all that exists. You, my son, are the Soul.
The Upanishads
The Upanishads
Changing the World
Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself. The only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.
Gary Zukav
Gary Zukav
Native American Philosophy
Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky, and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept us safe among them...The animals had rights: the right of man’s protection, the right to live, the right to multiply, the right to freedom, and the right to man’s indebtedness. This concept of life and its relations filled us with joy and mystery of living; it gave us reverence for all life; it made a place for all things in the scheme of existence with equal importance to all.
Chief Luther Standing Bear
Chief Luther Standing Bear
You and I
Our usual understanding of life is dualistic: you and I, this and that, good and bad. But actually these discriminations are themselves the awareness of the Universal existence. “You” means to be aware of the Universe in the form of you, and “I” means to be aware of it in the form of I. You and I are just swinging doors.
Shunrvu Suzuki
Shunrvu Suzuki
The Secret of Everything
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because Oneness is the secret of everything.
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda
Past Experiences
When the past stops to be a weight, it becomes your richness.
We Are Human Angels, the book
We Are Human Angels, the book
The Creative Force
The universe actively loves itself and all of its parts. The world loves itself and all of its parts. It is not true that energy is neutral or indifferent. Energy is active, positive, propelled by what can almost be called an instantaneous pleasure with itself and its characteristics. Despite all concepts to the contrary, energy is indeed at its basis, love. It is also composed of highly charged consciousness that operates in almost a leapfrog fashion, with great bursts of exuberance and vitality. The great - the greatest creative force - that force that is the origin of all physical life - did not suddenly appear once in some distant past, sparking the birth of your reality, endowing it with an energy that could only then run down, or dissipate. Instead, ever-new virgin energy, so to speak, is created constantly, and appears at every conceivable point within your universal system. Each new rose in the springtime is in truth a new rose, composed of completely new and unique energy, utterly itself, innocent, alive in the world.
In the deepest of terms, while each body has a history, each moment in the body’s existence is also new, freshly emerging into the world, innocent and unique. While there is indeed pain in the world, it is the miraculous principle of pleasure that propels life itself.
Seth (Jane Roberts)
In the deepest of terms, while each body has a history, each moment in the body’s existence is also new, freshly emerging into the world, innocent and unique. While there is indeed pain in the world, it is the miraculous principle of pleasure that propels life itself.
Seth (Jane Roberts)
Fierce Embrace
It doesn’t interest me if there
is one God
Or many gods...
I want to know if you belong -
or feel abandoned;
If you know despair
Or can see it in others.
I want to know
if you are prepared
to live in the world
With its harsh need to change you;
If you can look back
with firm eyes
Saying, “this is where I stand.”
I want to know
if you know
how to melt
into that fierce heat of living
Falling toward the center of your longing.
I want to know if you are willing
To live day by day
With the consequence of love
And the bitter unwanted passion
Of your sure defeat.
I have been told
In that fierce embrace
Even the gods
Speak of God.
David Whyte
is one God
Or many gods...
I want to know if you belong -
or feel abandoned;
If you know despair
Or can see it in others.
I want to know
if you are prepared
to live in the world
With its harsh need to change you;
If you can look back
with firm eyes
Saying, “this is where I stand.”
I want to know
if you know
how to melt
into that fierce heat of living
Falling toward the center of your longing.
I want to know if you are willing
To live day by day
With the consequence of love
And the bitter unwanted passion
Of your sure defeat.
I have been told
In that fierce embrace
Even the gods
Speak of God.
David Whyte
An Enlightened Soul
Being an enlightened soul is all about
letting go of the gathered corruptions
that are sticking to one’s soul, which are
preventing the divine light of the soul
from shining bright.
Being an enlightened soul is all about
retaining a state of pureness, a state of
innocence, a state of being, where one
transcends all physical senses and
illusions, and able to see and understand
the beauty of life, truth, and love
in their purest form.
Prem Tihan (Shafiq)
letting go of the gathered corruptions
that are sticking to one’s soul, which are
preventing the divine light of the soul
from shining bright.
Being an enlightened soul is all about
retaining a state of pureness, a state of
innocence, a state of being, where one
transcends all physical senses and
illusions, and able to see and understand
the beauty of life, truth, and love
in their purest form.
Prem Tihan (Shafiq)
Your Experiences
Your experiences do not form you. You form yourself by understanding your experiences.
Lauren Zimmerman
Lauren Zimmerman
Personal Is Global
Personal transformation can and does have global effects.
As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us.
The revolution that will save the world
is ultimately a personal one.
Marianne Williamson
As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us.
The revolution that will save the world
is ultimately a personal one.
Marianne Williamson
Your Essence
Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.
Chuang Tzu
Chuang Tzu
Man's Purpose
Physically speaking, man’s purpose is to help enrich the quality of existence in all of its dimensions.
Spiritually speaking, his purpose is to understand the qualities of love and creativity, to intellectually and psychically understand the sources of his being, and to lovingly create other dimensions of reality of which he is presently unaware.
Seth (Jane Roberts)
Spiritually speaking, his purpose is to understand the qualities of love and creativity, to intellectually and psychically understand the sources of his being, and to lovingly create other dimensions of reality of which he is presently unaware.
Seth (Jane Roberts)
You Are
You are the traveler,
You are the path,
and you are the destination.
Be careful never to lose the way to yourSelf.
Shihab al-Din Yahva Suhrawardi
You are the path,
and you are the destination.
Be careful never to lose the way to yourSelf.
Shihab al-Din Yahva Suhrawardi
The Ultimate End of Man
This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth which is his Soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
The Flux of Life
When we learn to move beyond mistaken concepts and see clearly, we no longer solidify reality. We see waves coming and going, arising and passing. We see that life, composed of this mind and body, is in a state of continual, constant transformation and flux. There is always the possibility of radical change. Every moment - not just poetically or figuratively, but literally - every moment we are dying and being reborn, we and all of life.
Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg
An Expression of the Whole
Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of Nature, a unique action of the total Universe.
Alan Watts
Alan Watts
Communication Is Communion
True communication is communion - the realization of oneness, which is love.
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
Quantum Theory
Quantum theory indicates that there are no such things as separate parts in reality, but instead only intimately related phenomena so bound up with each other as to be inseparable.
Professor Henry Stapp
Professor Henry Stapp
Impermanence
The Buddhas teaching points to the fact that all conditions are impermanent. By the word “condition” we mean a formation of the mind, such as a thought or opinion.
Men and women are conditions. Similarly, Jews and Gentiles, Buddhists and Christians, Asians and Europeans, Africans, the working class, the middle class, the upper class; all these are only formations that go through the mind. They aren’t absolutes. They are merely conventions that are useful for communication.
We must use these conventions, but we must also realize that they are only conventions - not absolutes. In this way, our minds are no longer fixed in our views or opinions. Views and opinions are seen simply as conditions that arise and case in the mind, because that’s what they really are.
All conditions are impermanent; they arise and cease.
Ajahn Sumedho
Men and women are conditions. Similarly, Jews and Gentiles, Buddhists and Christians, Asians and Europeans, Africans, the working class, the middle class, the upper class; all these are only formations that go through the mind. They aren’t absolutes. They are merely conventions that are useful for communication.
We must use these conventions, but we must also realize that they are only conventions - not absolutes. In this way, our minds are no longer fixed in our views or opinions. Views and opinions are seen simply as conditions that arise and case in the mind, because that’s what they really are.
All conditions are impermanent; they arise and cease.
Ajahn Sumedho
The Boundary Line
A human being is NOT in search of money or comfort. A human being is in search of happiness and fulfillment. Because we have set material goals for this, we think if we get this much money or property or power, we will be. But the nature of human longing is such it does not matter how much you get, you want to go to the next step. Whoever you may be or wherever you may be, whatever your boundaries are right now, there is something within you that is longing to go to the next step. If you look at the human longing, you will very clearly see that actually a human being is aspiring to become boundless. Whatever the boundary, he wants to break that and go beyond that. Through physical means you are trying to achieve this. Our economic structure is coming to this fundamental flaw that through physical means you are trying to become boundless. But the very nature of physicality is that there is a defined boundary. You can call this a physical body only because there is a defined boundary...but now human beings are desiring to become boundless through physical means. It is a hopeless condition.
Sadhguru
Sadhguru
The Mind, The Heart, The Soul
The mind thinks of everything you can lose.
The heart thinks of everything you can give,
and the soul thinks of everything you are.
Neale Donald Walsch
The heart thinks of everything you can give,
and the soul thinks of everything you are.
Neale Donald Walsch
The Universal Connection
When you reach a deep enough meditative state to experience the oneness that underlies all of reality, then you have arrived at the main destination of the journey through life on Earth. Once you experience your unity with the universe and all that it contains, you realize many things. You realize that you have always had this connection, that you always will have this connection, and that nothing can ever take it away.
Owen Waters
Owen Waters
The Empty Cup Principle
Thirty spokes share the wheel’s hub;
It is the center hole that makes it useful.
Shape clay into a vessel;
It is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a room;
It is the holes which make it useful.
Therefore benefit comes from what is there;
Usefulness from what is not there.
Lao Tzu
It is the center hole that makes it useful.
Shape clay into a vessel;
It is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a room;
It is the holes which make it useful.
Therefore benefit comes from what is there;
Usefulness from what is not there.
Lao Tzu
The Frequency Relationship
Alpha waves in the human brain are between six and eight hertz. The wave frequency of the human cavity resonates between six and eight hertz. All biological systems operate in the same frequency range. The human brain’s alpha waves function in this range and the electrical resonance of the earth is between six and eight hertz. Thus, our entire biological system - the brain and the earth itself - work on the same frequencies. If we can control that resonate system electronically, we can directly control the entire mental system of mankind.
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
Meditation's Offer
We could say that meditation doesn’t have a reason or doesn’t have a purpose. In this respect it’s unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don’t do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music, the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
Alan Watts
Alan Watts
The Ego
You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest - pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear - is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God.
Brian Weiss
Brian Weiss
Communication Frequencies
We are always communicating energetically. Before you have spoken a word, your frequency has relayed volumes of information. When we speak of raising vibration, it is a change in frequency. You are sending out new information. In doing so your communication is understood by those of like frequency. New energetic and physical conversations begin.
Anara WhiteBear
Anara WhiteBear
Our Fundamental Nature
What benefit can be derived from attachment to distinctions and separations? Be in harmony with the nature of things, your own fundamental nature, and you will walk freely and undisturbed.
Seng Tsan
Seng Tsan
Higher Frequencies of Consciousness
When you detach from worldly concerns and express a higher frequency of consciousness, the conflicts of the lower frequencies of consciousness become automatically healed. When you let go of any form of conflict within yourself, you are able to rise to a higher frequency of consciousness in a state of harmony and balance.
Higher frequencies of consciousness hold a higher power, not just a slightly higher power. The power ratio of spiritual consciousness to conflict-oriented consciousness is many thousands to one. If you allow balance to enter your life through a spiritual state of consciousness, it will manifest immediately and very powerfully in your daily life. You will also be helping to raise the global consciousness in a very powerful and constructive manner.
Owen Waters
Higher frequencies of consciousness hold a higher power, not just a slightly higher power. The power ratio of spiritual consciousness to conflict-oriented consciousness is many thousands to one. If you allow balance to enter your life through a spiritual state of consciousness, it will manifest immediately and very powerfully in your daily life. You will also be helping to raise the global consciousness in a very powerful and constructive manner.
Owen Waters
Presence Over Mind
Who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it is beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are at the deepest level one.
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle
Patience
Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving until the right action arises by itself?
Lao Tzu
Can you remain unmoving until the right action arises by itself?
Lao Tzu
The Beginning of Freedom
The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the thinker. The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought. And thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace, arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.
Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle