Dreaming

As long as you are run by the egoic mind, you are part of the collective insanity... You don’t need to condemn. Just observe.
When you choose to live from a place of love, you are free to be yourself, to connect with your desires, and to take action from a place of empowerment. When you choose to live from a place of fear, you are always trying to fit in, denying who you really are in order to satisfy the expectations of others. The latter not only deprives you of [continue reading...]
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
Just imagine becoming the way you used to be, as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word.
Life force enters the body through the agency of an interested, joyous attitude - it doesn't respond to a half-dead will! Learn to perform all your duties with a courageous cheerfulness welling up from within you. Then, as you perform your daily activities, you will see that a flood of vitality will move through all your muscles and through your [continue reading...]
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
The biggest mystery is how human beings create their own reality—and then forget what they did.
Sir John Eccles, a neurologist and Nobel laureate, declared, “I want you to realize that there exists no color in the natural world, and no sound—nothing of this kind; no textures, no patterns, no beauty, no scent.” What Eccles means is that all the qualities of nature, from the luxurious scent of a rose to the sting of a wasp and the [continue reading...]
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
'I forgive you for not being the way I wanted you to be. I forgive you and I set you free.' This affirmation sets us free.
If we choose to believe we are helpless victims and that it’s all hopeless, then the Universe will support us in that belief, and we will just go down the drain. It is vital that we release these foolish, outmoded, negative ideas and beliefs that do not support us and nourish us. Even our concept of God needs to be one that is for us, not against us.
You can silence the body easily but it is difficult to silence your thoughts
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
"Lord, Thou hast given us freedom to forget our daily troubles by nightly visits to dreamland. May we escape from mortal sorrows forever by awakening in Thee."