That anything exists at all, let alone is self-aware, is beyond statistical speculation, it’s miraculous in the truest sense.
This is the true nature of reality and is what we rightly call Divine and Mystery.
That anything exists at all, let alone is self-aware, is beyond statistical speculation, it’s miraculous in the truest sense.
This is the true nature of reality and is what we rightly call Divine and Mystery.
I was never really grateful before. Not really. I took too much for granted on one hand, and on the other I was focused on what I didn’t have, what I wanted. There’s not much room for gratitude in that way of thinking. It was only after I awakened that real gratitude came online for…
Whenever desire or dissatisfaction shows up our first instinct is to try to get or change something. We’re trained to leap up and run after our impulses like show-dogs. Desire says “jump” and we say “how high?!” And since these thoughts and feelings and wants keep popping up, large and small, we’re endlessly running around,…
Bliss is always here in our experience, but we have to surrender to it. Otherwise we experience it as suffering.
The secret is in how we ‘handle’ the moment. More to the point, it’s about WHO and WHAT is handling the moment. Because if there’s some second-guessing egoic mind trying to sort out good from bad, wanted from unwanted in every moment, then life is going to be experienced as a real pain in the…
Every thought a prayer, every action a devotion, every stillness a communion.
Awakening is an ongoing unfoldment of potentials and nothing in particular is guaranteed to stop or go away, even though some things might. It’s the ongoing acceptance, patience, and forgiveness of whatever arises or happens that marks healthful embodiment. But also the true and deep acceptance that anything CAN happen and that nothing that DOES…