The Enlightened Perspective We are programmed from birth to believe that our existence is an unsolvable riddle, but if we make an honest effort,…
Socrates I want to hear from him what is the nature of his art, and what it is which he professes and teaches; he…
“Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.” Satchel Paige I memorized the days of the week back when that was all…
“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” Mark Twain I took the time to write…
Excerpted from Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin Abbott Abbott, 1884. The two-dimensional narrator is being introduced to a broader reality by…
“It is in the infinite ocean of myself that the mind-creation called the world takes place.” Ashtavakra Gita Still in the hammock, I read…
“An experience is never factual but only conceptual. Whatever an experience may be, it is nonetheless only a happening in consciousness.” Ramesh Balsekar If…
“Existence or consciousness is the only reality. Consciousness is the screen on which all the pictures come and go. The screen is real, the…
“Please be so good as to believe that there is nothing whatever mysterious about this matter. If it were easy, should we not all…
A long time ago, all living creatures had perished. The world was no more than a sea – a gray, misty, icy swamp. One…
“God made everything out of nothing. but the nothingness shows through.” Paul Valéry “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we…
Before enlightenment, a mountain is a mountain. During enlightenment, a mountain is not a mountain. After enlightenment, a mountain is a mountain again. Of…
“Am I so dependent on the body and the senses that without these I cannot exist? But I had the persuasion that there was…
“Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint…
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 think…
“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.” Mahatma Gandhi “Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is…
A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when all…
“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.” Mahatma Gandhi In my…
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” HD Thoreau “You can’t cross the sea…
“The only truth is I Am – I Exist. That is the only truth. Everything else is a concept.” Ramesh Balsekar “The Perennial Philosophy…
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 can’t…
“This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.” Bertrand Russell “When truth is…
When the child was a child It walked with its arms swinging, wanted the brook to be a river, the river to be a…
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” Yogi Berra For reasons of accuracy, I sometimes exchange the…
“Life has to be given a meaning because of the obviousfact that it has no meaning.” Henry Miller “Life is without meaning. You bring…
“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 for…
“Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, “But how can it be like that?” because you will get “down…
excerpted from the book by Douglas Adams “…and his eyes, though open, seemed closed.” The rain pelted and danced on the corrugated iron roof of…
“We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.” Christof, The Truman Show I mentioned the movie The Truman Show to…
“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 rest…
“The name of God is Truth.” Hindu proverb