Hell is Blindness in Heaven
The present moment with all that’s happening in and around it is a canvas with some paint on the side. …
Spirituality
Finding Serenity in Chaos
Serenity is not a state of the world but a state of the soul. When we associate serenity with the …
Flooded by Light
When the sun comes up, the earth is flooded with its light; it illumines and uncovers the ugly and the …
There is Nothing to Know
All my life I had been plagued with a fundamental need to know, to know not in quantities but that …
The Passing
All things pass but the passing. All things appear and disappear in the passing, but the passing itself neither appears …
Refining the Soul
A refined soul is developed by proximity to refined things, by being around other refined souls, by seeking its meaning …
We Rise Above
It is quite a bullshit theory that there are among us humans some that cope better with life’s surprises than …
My Perennials
I see, and I see from a dimension into which no creature can look. I roll in plain sight but …
The Eye of the Eternal
My dear friend, what is fallible is also the infallible. What is here is also there, and what is temporal …
The Eternal Bliss
When we stop outsourcing happiness and well-being from outside of ourselves we realize that our spirit has all that we …
Philosophizing with Hammer
The topic came up during a midsummer night conversation with a sweet and sensitive spirit, the idea that a purely …
Seek not, See!
To know the truth is not the same as having a theory or a belief system about reality, however logical …
Seeing God
God, i.e. that ineffable Ground of all things to which the word alludes, can surely be seen and realized. This …
Find Me If You Can
The Void swallows that which is like it, empty and transparent. In that blessed moment what is above snatches from …
The Traces of My Beloved
My Beloved has come again, I am light again, light as a feather whirling in the gravity of my Eternal …
The Perfection in Letting Go
The greatest spiritual imperfection of a seeker is the obsession with her spiritual perfection Spiritual perfection is not about the …
The Secret to Effortless Meditation
*This is an extended & revised version of an earlier article I wrote back in 2015 The Art of Effortless …
I Am Meditation
Meditation is not about having a pleasant, calming experience; it is about being fully open to the richness of experience …
Insaan, The Transparent Enclosure
I thought I was a man and I sought the other half in a woman. But I had to break …
Fanaa: From Time to Eternity
We approached the Giver of States in awe and reverence seeking a glimpse of that burning and annihilating ecstasy. Hearing …
