96 - Effortlessness in Change

When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live. Desire breeds anxiety but we don't want to see it. But when you’ve suffered sufficiently, then you will be ready to see it. 

Dag Hammarskjöld, the former UN Secretary-General, put it so beautifully: “God does not die on the day we cease to believe in a personal deity. But we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance of wonder renewed daily, the source of which is beyond ...  Show more

"All that there is within the universe to satisfy the senses, cannot satisfy one whose senses are uncontrolled." - Sri Vamanadeva / always look for the deeper essence / the Bhagavatam shows us dharmic reversals again and again, even the demons can be glorified more than the de ...

Behind the activity of thinking, and the ever-changing flow of sounds, sensations and feelings, there is a great and awake silence that holds all that unfolds. This space of awareness is our formless essence, and learning to open and rest into this alert, knowing vastness has the ...  Show more

Behind the activity of thinking, and the ever-changing flow of sounds, sensations and feelings, there is a great and awake silence that holds all that unfolds. This space of awareness is our formless essence, and learning to open and rest into this alert, knowing vastness has the ...  Show more

Wisdom of the Sages is mother approved (with cautious optimism) / "Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality.." - John Fiske / There's no empirical evidence that all that exists falls within the realm of empirical evidence. / there's a firewall between us ...