"Step out of the tranceof socialization. ...Wear your weaknesseslike accessorieson this reservoir of organsyou have grownaround your truth."Mary Loehr Read More
"Let yourself expandBeyond the backbone of the mind. ...You are the needleholding the thread of eternity. ...Together we worship Everything that cannot… Read More
Is reality boring?Is the real boring?No.Boredom is a mind-state that is symptomatic of disconnection from reality.Boredom arises when contact with the real is lost.The true cure for boredom… Read More
Everything breathes. I watch the trees breathing in the cool morning air and I feel the lungs in this body breathe as these words are written. The rocks breathe, the clouds breathe, the coff… Read More
"Never bother naming an emotion again.Just feel the energy of it." Scott KilobyWe think it's the emotion that hurts, when what actually causes the most pain is the w… Read More
Nowhere I'd rather be, nothing I'd rather be doing.On some level, this is always true.On the surface there is complaining and resistance and judgment, wanting to be somewhere else, wanting t… Read More
I was having an argument with my husband today that we'd already had a thousand times before. The same argument. I just couldn't stop spinning out all the reasons I was right, couldn't stop… Read More
"...all of a sudden the heightened awareness popped in that I'm not a something; I'm emptiness looking out of this form."Mukti~http://www.adyashanti.org/index.php?file=mukti_teachings … Read More
"I remember once being in a place that was so dark I couldn't see my hand in front of my face. My emotional reaction was, 'I can't see anything! I don't know what is there!' But then I thoug… Read More
For a long time I've wondered what it means for the energy of unhappiness to become transmuted into the energy of increased consciousness. This morning I had a tiny taste of what this means… Read More
The only real uprooting of compulsive external seeking comes from directly tasting the subtle current of life in this moment, a current which is always present.~Gratitude for photo:http://ww… Read More
"To accept that our organism is a mere phenomenon, a fleeting emanation from the original source, something of no particular interest, whose individual destiny is quite insignificant, this i… Read More
Depression is called a disease, but not happiness.Genuine sadness and depression are better than fake happiness. Sadness may be a symptom of healing from the disease of false happiness… Read More
A few weeks ago I came across this photo of a 12 month old boy being prepared for burial in 2001 after he died of dehydration in a refugee camp. Looking at the image there is horror at this… Read More
I notice that there is a strangle-hold of guilt on every cell in my body and it has been there for decades. Unnoticed. Wow. What is constant becomes invisible and completely unnoticed.It's a… Read More
When I was a kid I was horrified to hear that wheat was being dumped in the ocean to drive up food prices while people were dying from lack of food. Today I wonder if there is a dumpin… Read More
Unglued is an apt term, and often, a good thing.I came unglued during some drama with my family yesterday. My upset-button got pushed, not by my family, but by my believed thoughts. Un… Read More
I was sitting in some long meetings today and these words arose in awareness: Stop trying. Below the radar of conscious awareness there was a lot of chronic trying going on. Trying to look g… Read More
Watching satsangs with Paul Hedderman on ustream and reading the wonderful wealth of communications here on the internet, there is a noticing of something that has previously been unnoticed… Read More
I once came across a poem that keeps surfacing in consciousness at odd and expected moments. I read it slowly from time to time, drinking it in, and every time it opens a new doorway with… Read More
Attended a stunning six day workshop titled "Breath, Body, Mind" taught by two psychiatrists (a husband-wife team): Dr. Richard Brown and Dr. Patricia Gerbarg. I highly recommend attending o… Read More
Imaginary burdens.The mind imagines many burdens.Life is not a burden.Death is not a burden.~Gratitude for image: http://www.seakayakalaska.com/ Read More
Objects and non-objects can be noticed. To notice a non-object is to notice the noticing itself.To notice a non-object is to notice the motionless space in which everything exists. Cont… Read More
"Have you ever noticed that the present moment never abandons you?It's the well that never runs dry." Sara ExleyYou are this moment, you are the well that never run… Read More