Many consider life to be an essentially meaningless exercise in consumption, maybe ‘creation’, aging, and death. Many of us tie our whole life purpose and value to completely transitory objectives, responsibilities, desires, and relationships. This life and the time-span it covers are but a blip on the vast, incomprehensible magnitude of the universe and the [...]
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
~ David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via Blue)
“There is nothing that you ask that this universe will not answer. For it is the nature of this universe to answer your soul’s call. … When a person seeks for something in the universe and he cannot find it, it is not true that it is not there. The fact is that he does [...]
“Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer.”
So much in life is a challenge until it is turned into a habit. Once turned into a habit, nearly everything becomes easy.
For example, we may want to completely change our eating or cooking habits. At first, it may seem like a huge challenge, but after some time (if we are disciplined and consistent), [...]
It’s so easy to get caught up in the lower issues of our daily work. We spend hours upon hours on it every day (or, at least, every weekday). But there are 2 things to remember in the midst of all this work:
1) this world is not our home, and getting caught up in [...]
“Turning the light around, is to illumine inwardly, is using emptiness and stillness to return the spirit to the inside.”
~ Dzogchen
“An important rule of psychology is that every motive that takes its root in the mind must be watered and reared until its full development. And if one neglects this duty, one does not only harm the motive, but by this the will power becomes less, and the working of the mind becomes disorderly. Even [...]
“To treat every human being as a shrine of God is to fulfill all religion.”
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
“The thirst for life makes us overlook little opportunities of doing good. Every moment of life brings an opportunity for being conscious of human feeling, in prosperity, in adversity, in all conditions. It costs very little; [...]
“Jivatma and Surat are other names for the soul. It has descended into the body from the highest planes of Sat Nam and Radha Soami. But it has become entangled here by the three gunas (attributes), five tattwas, then Indriyas (sense organs), the mind, etc., and has developed such strong ties with the body and [...]
