When your mind is set on something, the universe will take you to it. When your heart is set on something, the universe will bring it to you. Mind makes stone monuments; love breaks through them. Love hurts, but it hurts only the walls and barriers and not what’s beyond them. Mind breaks and love … More Love invites
It’s all happening in the darkness, a chaos of undifferentiated ether. And I, the spotlight, make a scene by the turn of my gaze. And the mind, the prompter, animates the ghosts of this stage, the dormant selves of this world. And on the basis of this one scene, this here and now, a spatiotemporal … More Consciousness: The Grand Trickster
There is no shortage of literature trying to pin down what consciousness is. Every field claims expertise over it: the natural scientist attempts at reducing it to inert matter or physiological processes. The psychologist sees it as a collection of mental states. The philosopher views it as the principle of cognition. The spiritualist sees it … More Finding Consciousness
Without meaning man is poor. And what is my meaning? What is a meaningful life and how do we find and realize it? In my experience, it’s quite impossible, and impractical, to define meaningful life in merely conceptual terms or in the form of a fit-all and fixed prescription. I think we do not need … More Living Meaningfully Now
Keeping your worst fears at a distance will always keep you in fear. Instead, if you muster the courage to invite your fears into your embodied self, your experience of them will undergo the following 5-fold transformations: Unpleasant, painful, excruciating, unbearable, funny Fear is a mask worn by your disowned parts in order to draw … More Love your Fears
The out there is in here. Nothing is outside me, for without me there would be neither inside nor outside. What is beyond me is already encompassed by me, for otherwise the “beyond me” wouldn’t even come into my conception. I dwell in a world that dwells in my thinking. This baffles even me, who … More The Bafflefield
Is it a gift or a curse, self-awareness! The endless expanse of this Self is at times terrible and frightening to look at. At times I cannot take up its infinitude. I am more comfortable when the Self breastfeeds me the mundane, and I am more at ease when placed among the herd and in … More The Taxidermist
The present moment with all that’s happening in and around it is a canvas with some paint on the side. It is up to me how to look at it and what to make of it. Heaven and hell are not places in this world or the other world; they are the reflections to myself … More Hell is Blindness in Heaven
Serenity is not a state of the world but a state of the soul. When we associate serenity with the state of things outside of us, we put ourselves in a situation where we have to constantly manipulate those things; we corner ourselves into a state of constant strife and struggle with the things of … More Finding Serenity in Chaos
When the sun comes up, the earth is flooded with its light; it illumines and uncovers the ugly and the beautiful alike; this is not a fault of light; neither is light defiled by illumining the defiled. It’s the nature of sun to shine and to show all things without discrimination. However, I, this changing … More Flooded by Light
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