Stop, Look
“Stop looking where you are looking, and look where you are. What bounty! Love loving you just as you are. Then, how does your life respond to that? It is your lifetime. This lifetime of …
Category: Consciousness
Guardians
I’ve always enjoyed a cartoon’s ability to capture the essence of a story, idea, or vision. Both word and picture have to be refined to an aphorism. What they call in Sanskrit a sutra, meaning …
Astonishing!
I am still regularly astonished with what happens. Many of us live in resistance to what shows up in our life. Ironically, we can be fighting what we want because it came in the wrong …
Levels of Existence
One of the things I’ve found fascinating is how the basic truths of reality can be found throughout the history of human thought: in religions, philosophies, and writings of old. Often they are encumbered with …
The End of Evil
Recently, a rather intellectual comment showed up on a post from last year. In checking out their blog, a conversation ensued on the inclusive nature of unity and they brought up the ‘Problem of Evil’. …
The Evolution of Bliss
While I can’t say there is standard evolution in how we experience bliss, I can suggest some of the broad points. This is because the world is expressed in layers, each a reflection of the …
Unmasking Brahman
Recently, I’ve spoken of how the experience of source as emptiness or nothingness is a phase. It seems you take everything away and you’re left with nothing. But this is only due to the habit …
The Good Story
A number of times on this blog, I’ve spoken about the Story, the mental and emotional play we engage that creates and supports the life we live. For many people, the idea that their lives …
The Future
Some would suggest that our current experience of the present is the sum total of our decisions, experiences, and actions of the past. A consequence of our thinking, feeling, and doing. However, this misses a …
Getting Simple
One of the qualities of Awakening people sometimes describe is living a problem free life. We can understand that if we are no longer fighting life, problems will be less. But it’s interesting to explore …
The Impact of Awareness
Another reader question on one of Adyashanti’s books that’s worth sharing. From his book, The Impact of Awakening, on page 90: “Before consciousness there is emptiness. Emptiness is neither formless nor has it any form. …
Only Full #2
Back on Only Full, I spoke of how the experience of source as nothingness is simply a phase, a not yet complete experience. Science is coming to the same conclusion. We tend to think of …