If your life is not for the world,Then give it to God.Because it’s not enough to knowWhat you’re not for,But what you are. Abandoning the worldMight seem to make an absence,But it revealsThe fullness of life,Of Being,Of God. Leave the world alone,And His presence awakensIn your heart,In all of you. He was already there,Waiting for…
My sense is that at the very least Jesus was an exemplar to what it is to live in truth, to live in complete loyalty to the dictates of one’s conscience and an embodiment of radical, universal love. But his story also showed in the people around him what the egoic mind would do to…
It’s worth remembering that when we deal with the Devil he honours his side of the bargain and we do actually get what we wanted, or so the stories tell. We want to be rich and powerful; done. We want to be a great blues guitarist; done. The problem isn’t that he doesn’t deliver, it’s…