(audio available for paid members) “Well, I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of;…
(audio available for paid members) YOU CAN SKIP THIS CHAPTER, but if you get confused later about the terms and concepts we’re using and the relationships between them,…
(audio available for paid members) “Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all…
(audio available for paid members) Af-flu-en-za n. 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress,…
(audio available for paid members) “Perhaps the deepest reason why we are afraid of death is because we do not know who we are. We believe in a…
IN CONTACT with the flux of cosmic consciousness all religions known and named today will be melted down. The human soul will be revolutionized. Religion will absolutely dominate…
“DO YOU BEGIN TO SEE, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined.…
(audio available for paid members) Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent— that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. Friedrich…
(audio available for paid members) “I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should…
(audio available for paid members) “For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there;…
O ME, man of slack faith so long! Standing aloof—denying portions so long; Only aware today of compact, all-diffused truth; Discovering today there is no lie, or form…
(audio available for paid members) “The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes…
(audio available for paid members) “I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try,…
(audio available for paid members) “It is not that you must be free from fear. The moment you try to free yourself from fear, you create a resistance…
(audio available for paid members) “The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone…
(audio available for paid members) If the eye never sleeps, all dreams will naturally cease. If the mind makes no discriminations, the ten thousand things are as they…
(audio available for paid members) “Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of…
(audio available for paid members) “Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.” Mahatma Gandhi
(audio available for paid members) Of the terrible doubt of appearances, Of the uncertainty after all—that we may be deluded, That maybe reliance and hope are but speculations…
(audio available for paid members) “Do you believe,” said Candide, “that men have always massacred each other as they do today, that they have always been liars, cheats,…
(audio available for paid members) “His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while…
(audio available for paid members) “There seem to be two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy,…
(audio available for paid members) “A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself…
(audio available for paid members) Magnifying and applying come I, Outbidding at the start the old cautious hucksters, Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah, Lithographing Kronos, Zeus…
(audio available for paid members) Yet now, forsooth, because Pierre began to see through the first superficiality of the world, he fondly weens he has come to the…
(audio available for paid members) Alice came to a fork in the road. “Which road do I take?” she asked. “Where do you want to go?” responded the…
AS I lay with my head in your lap, Camerado, The confession I made I resume— what I said to you in the open air I resume: I…
(audio available for paid members) “You remember when I said how I was gonna explain about life, buddy? Well the thing about life is, it gets weird. People…
(audio available for paid members) “The only thing that burns in hell is the part of you that won’t let go of your life: your memories, your attachments.…
(audio available for paid members) “To begin depriving death of it’s greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us…
(audio available for paid members) Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed. Dalai Lama
(audio available for paid members) “Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison…
(audio available for paid members) “Men fear thought more than they fear anything else on earth—more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive…