Inspired pathways
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? Absorbed in this world, you’ve made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you’ve paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prison. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. Let yourself be...
Read MoreBuilding the Universe
On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime. Near me, I saw a single cricket; it was moving the grains of the hillside this way and that way. How great was its energy, how humble its effort. Let us hope it will always be like this, each of us going on in our inexplicable ways building the universe. from Why I Wake Early (2004) Mary...
Read MoreI trust you
Karim Sulayman – I trust you from Meredith Kaufman Younger on Vimeo. Thanks to our dear friend Jane Ely for this...
Read MoreThe Tao of Physics
“When we view ourselves in space and time, our consciousnesses are obviously the separate individuals of a particle-picture, but when we pass beyond space and time, they may perhaps form ingredients of a single continuous stream of life. As it is with light and electricity, so it may be with life; the phenomena may be individuals carrying on separate existences in space and time, while in the...
Read MoreManifesto
We are dissident bodhisattvas rebelling against all those forces that feed fear and ignore love. We are spiritual freedom fighters rising up to protect nature and foment peace and demand justice. We are subversive mystics stoking the cool blue fires of poetry and lobbying for the liberated imagination. We are militant ecstatics invoking the transformative powers of pleasure to sanctify and...
Read MoreThe Tao
Every being in the universe is an expression of the Tao. It springs into existence, unconscious,perfect,free, takes on a physical body, lets circumstances complete it. That is why every being spontaneously honors the Tao. The Tao gives birth to all beings nourishes them, maintains them, cares for them, comforts them,protects them takes them back to itself, creating without possessing, acting...
Read MoreLoneliness and Solitude
Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. Loneliness is small, solitude is large. Loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. Loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nobody...
Read MoreSnippets of Chaos
“Irregularity and unpredictability are important features of health. On the other hand, decreased variability and accentuated periodicities are associated with disease. Healthy systems don’t want homeostasis. They want chaos.” —John R. Van Eenwyk, “The Chaotic Dynamic* of Everyday Life,” Quest magazine “One must have chaos within oneself if one is to be a...
Read More12 Steps for the Recovering New Ager…
“Humanity grant me the serenity to accept life without astrology The Courage to change my name back to what it was And the wisdom to know that aliens can’t save me” ——Blake More Everyone is on a journey, a path, a course, an El Camino. These divine road trips lead through an infinite number of experiences and interpretations. Often it seems that every...
Read More17 things
In a world full of lists – here is one that definitely is worth the read, take your time with it – read one a day! : 1. Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind. Cultivate that capacity for “negative capability.” We live in a culture where one of the greatest social disgraces is not having an opinion, so we often form our “opinions” based on superficial...
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