Book Two of The Enlightenment Trilogy By Jed McKenna Do not think the Buddhas are other than you. Dogen Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment Isn’t One…
Dear Mr. McKenna, I finished reading your book Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing and I’m so mad, I could chew nails. While you tout your book…
And that the great monster is indomitable, you will yet have reason to know. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“The Spiritual Master is absurd, like everything else. He is a Function that serves to Enlighten or Awaken beings from this condition that is…
“Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.” H.…
“If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall?” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.” Henry David…
“The end of illusion is the end of you.” U.G. Krishnamurti The words of U.G. Krishnamurti: Part I There’s a lot I really like about…
Illusion recognized must disappear. A Course In Miracles
Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders; I have no mockings or arguments— I witness…
“So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is…
By Walt Whitman WHOEVER you are, holding me now in hand, Without one thing, all will be useless, I give you fair warning, before…
“I realize that no contemplative path wants to advertise the cross or the suffering entailed in the crossing over. On the other hand we…
The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. Walt Whitman
“One who has seen his true nature no longer regards life as being full of menace and misery as most people do. His previously…
“The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.” Mark Twain Chapter 11 from The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain. FOR AS…
“He’s a grand, ungodly, god-like man, Captain Ahab; doesn’t speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen. Mark ye, be…
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning— I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you…
How hath this weakness taken thee? Whence springs The inglorious trouble, shameful to the brave, Barring the path of virtue? Nay, Arjun! Forbid thyself…
My members fail, my tongue dries in my mouth, A shudder thrills my body, and my hair Bristles with horror; from my weak hand…
The prophecy was that I should be dismembered; and—Aye! I lost this leg. I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer. Herman Melville,…
The soul that with a strong and constant calm Takes sorrow and takes joy indifferently, Lives in the life undying! That which is Can…
His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow,…
“There is no religious content, no mystical overtones at all, in what I am saying. Man has to be saved from the saviours of…
This is much; yet Ahab’s larger, darker, deeper part remains unhinted. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and…
He must dare to leap into the Origin, so as to live by the Truth and in the Truth, like one who has become…
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a…
In the world of things as they are, there is no self, no non-self.
He knows himself, and all that’s in him, who knows adversity. To scale great heights, we must come out of lowermost depths. The way…
“The person is a very small thing. Actually it is a composite, it cannot be said to exist by itself. Unperceived, it is just…
I’ll sing this song the rest of my life until I drop dead; whether anybody listens to it or not is of no importance…
“Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at…