Category Awakening
Waking Up Each Morning… Into the Dream of Identity
Every morning, we wake up into our personal stories. Certain memories wake up with us, coming to the forefront of our minds, and we find ourselves thinking about things that have become central to our lives in one way or another. Maybe those things make us feel good, or maybe they make us feel anxious, angry, or […]
One Joy, One Sorrow, One Heart: Awakening to the Collective Heart
Our deeply rooted belief in separation from others leads us to live in a state of almost constant inner isolation. We identify strongly with the details of our personal story, which exist mostly only in our minds, and are rooted in a “me” that is inherently separate from everybody else. But in truth our hearts […]
The Conversation (a poem)
~The Conversation~ God whispers eternal silence The unspoken word pervades all things Be still and it reveals itself The invisible I The one behind the many The mother of all creation The universe is born Again and again Every moment springs From the womb of emptiness The timeless cradles time The permanent beholds the transient […]
We Are *Literally* All One
The Truth is found in silence. We, as individuals and as a civilization, have mistaken noise for truth. Most fatally, we’ve mistaken mental chatter, which is nothing less than mental pollution, for the truth about ourselves. We’ve integrated all that muck and formed our egos out of it. A civilization of individuals who bow to […]
Shedding The Chains of Knowledge
What if we fully realized that, really, practically everything we know (being the content of our thoughts) is actually false? Imagine the innocence and awe in being able to see the world, and yourself, from the clear and exciting perspective that you actually don’t know what any of this is, and you don’t even know what you are. […]
Beyond Words
It’s amazing how so many of us live our lives with our minds constantly distracted from what’s actually here right now. We form many deep-seated judgments and beliefs based on experiences that are, in truth, heavily distorted by our distracted and disconnected way of being. We often have a difficult time being fully present with others, […]
What Always Remains
Thoughts and emotions, pleasurable and painful experiences, all these are transient things. We cling to them, or feel trapped by them, because we do not understand that it is in their very nature to fade into non-existence, to rise and then fall. Behind all that comes and goes, though, is something subtle and sublime that always remains […]
Everything Begins And Ends In Silence
Behind all the noise, movement, change- silence, stillness. Notice how silence precedes everything, and everything ends in silence. We mistakenly identify the change, the movement, as reality, but dismiss the silence as mere absence. But perhaps it is not merely an absence, perhaps it is more real than all these things that come and go. […]
First Impressions In The Realm of Appearances
The world you experience as reality is literally a “reality” pieced together by your own perception; it is as much a part of “you” as your body and your thoughts. Awareness casts a light on objective reality, but your mind transforms it into a purely subjective world. For me, it’s not just a matter of […]
A Sigh of Relief Felt by All Humankind
Over the last six months I’ve been deeply intrigued by the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti. He was not at all the type of spiritual guru many people might assume. He firmly rejected any efforts to paint him as such (he rejected the notion of being a guru, and also of having followers). In actuality, his […]
All Roads Lead To Now 
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