(audio available for paid members) “Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.” Satchel Paige I memorized the days of the week back when that was…

(audio available for paid members) “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” Mark Twain I took the time to…

(audio available for paid members) Excerpted from Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin Abbott Abbott, 1884. The two-dimensional narrator is being introduced to a broader reality…

(audio available for paid members) “It is in the infinite ocean of myself that the mind-creation called the world takes place.” Ashtavakra Gita

(audio available for paid members) “An experience is never factual but only conceptual. Whatever an experience may be, it is nonetheless only a happening in consciousness.” Ramesh Balsekar

(audio available for paid members) “Existence or consciousness is the only reality. Consciousness is the screen on which all the pictures come and go. The screen is real,…

(audio available for paid members) “Please be so good as to believe that there is nothing whatever mysterious about this matter. If it were easy, should we not…

A long time ago, all living creatures had perished. The world was no more than a sea – a gray, misty, icy swamp. One old man remained, all…

(audio available for paid members) “God made everything out of nothing. but the nothingness shows through.” Paul Valéry “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now…

(audio available for paid members) Before enlightenment, a mountain is a mountain. During enlightenment, a mountain is not a mountain. After enlightenment, a mountain is a mountain again.

(audio available for paid members) “Am I so dependent on the body and the senses that without these I cannot exist? But I had the persuasion that there…

(audio available for paid members) “Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without…

(audio available for paid members) From Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment: “…the difference between us isn’t something I have that you don’t, it’s something you believe that I don’t. You…

(audio available for paid members) “Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.” Mahatma Gandhi “Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary,…

(audio available for paid members) A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when…

(audio available for paid members) “An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.” Mahatma Gandhi

(audio available for paid members) “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” HD Thoreau “You can’t cross the…

(audio available for paid members) “The only truth is I Am – I Exist. That is the only truth. Everything else is a concept.” Ramesh Balsekar “The Perennial…

(audio available for paid members) Mommy always told me, Son, don’t never trust a zombie. Oh, but Mommy, you’re a zombie too, Who can I trust if I…

(audio available for paid members) “This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.” Bertrand Russell “When truth…

When the child was a child It walked with its arms swinging, wanted the brook to be a river, the river to be a torrent, and this puddle…

(audio available for paid members) “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” Yogi Berra

(audio available for paid members) “Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.” Henry Miller “Life is without meaning.…

(audio available for paid members) “There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them…

(audio available for paid members) “Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, “But how can it be like that?” because you will get…

(audio available for paid members) excerpted from the book by Douglas Adams “…and his eyes, though open, seemed closed.”

(audio available for paid members) “We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.” Christof, The Truman Show

(audio available for paid members) “Give a man a match and he’ll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the…

(audio available for paid members) “The name of God is Truth.” Hindu proverb