You discover the goal of existence by living it. The present is the only time when you can evolve, experience the divine, expand your awareness, or reach enlightenment. But this cannot be a haphazard journey that falters and wanders off the path. It's easy for that to happen when a crisis develops. Sudden losses and setbacks shake everyone up; those who keep moving forward are buoyed by knowing that their path cannot be destroyed, only interrupted.Collection: Moving
Apakah penampilanku satu-satunya hal yang membuatku berharga? Jika begitu, jangan tatap aku. Wajahku bisa menyembunyikan hati yang palsu.Collection: Spiritual
The experience of bliss can be the purest one of all and therefore the closest to God.Collection: Bliss
Free yourself emotionally - to be emotionally resilient is the best defense against growing rigid.Collection: Defense
Giving and receiving are different expressions of the same flow of energy in the universe.Collection: Expression
You can lead your brain and inspire it. You can actively shape new neural pathways.Collection: Inspire
It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. ...When you have the experience of love, either giving it or receiving it, you become magnanimous to the rest of the world. That’s why people in love can do extraordinary things!.Collection: People
The more you expand your awareness, the more naturally you will be present without effort.Collection: Effort
As intuition grows, the need to make problems and see complications starts to dwindle.Collection: Intuition
When we decide to take back our own power, we discover that the true solver of problems is intuition, not reason.Collection: Intuition
In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.Collection: Love You
The inner experience of meditation can be had without any kind of forced discipline. The outer trappings - how one sits, breathes, dresses, and so forth - are irrelevant.Collection: Discipline
Being fully in the present, you experience the timeless. In the timeless, you find your true self.Collection: Self
In the face of nature's overwhelming forces, humans needed a God who would protect them from harm. When they felt that they had broken the law or committed wrongdoing, people turned to a God who would judge them on the one hand and redeem their sins on the other. In this way, purely from slef-interest, the project of creating God in our own image proceeded--and continues to proceed.Collection: Law
The world is more than the sum of its suffering.Collection: Spiritual
Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together.Collection: Unusual Things
The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions.Collection: Spiritual
Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.Collection: Spiritual
If we could learn to live from the level of the soul, we would see that the best most luminous part of ourselves is connected to all the rhythms of the universe. We would truly know ourselves as the miracle-makers we are capable of being.Collection: Miracle
When we begin to experience our life as the miraculous expression of divinity - not occasionally, but all the time - then we will know the true meaning of success.Collection: Expression
Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.Collection: Intention
With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift.Collection: Motivational
The only people who really worry about money are the very poor and the very rich.Collection: People
In our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.Collection: Generosity
Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple.Collection: Sex
Embrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you.Collection: Creative
Love is a way of being, not something you give. When a person is truly loving, he is love.Collection: Love
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune.Collection: Spiritual
Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.Collection: Spiritual
Never forget your real identity. You are a luminous conscious stardust being forged in the crucible of cosmic fire.Collection: Spiritual
The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but actually it’s the most natural way to approach any situation. When you hold some part of yourself in reserve you deny it exposure to life; you repress its energy and keep it form understanding what it needs to know.Collection: Doors
Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the river.Collection: Spiritual
Words are not brains, you know.Collection: Brain
Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance.Collection: Emotional
No matter what the situation is...close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.Collection: Inspirational Life
Where nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarks and leptons, you and I also go to create ourselves.Collection: Uplifting
The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.Collection: Love
Once you master how your own consciousness operates, anything can be desired and achieved.Collection: Mind
We exist in order to actualize the deepest desires of our hearts.Collection: Heart
If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences.Collection: Looks
Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.Collection: Self
Love is already inside us as our true being; we do not have to make it appear.Collection: Love
The same faint song is heard in everything: "Behold yourself".Collection: Spiritual
To promote the healing response, you must get past all the grosser levels of the body - cells, tissues, organs and systems -- and arrive at a junction point between mind and matter, the point where consciousness actually starts to have an effect.Collection: Healing
Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion.Collection: Heart
Coincidences are glimpses in to the creative mind of the universe.Collection: Creative
Inside each person is a divine being that yearns to come into full expressionCollection: Expression
Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentionsCollection: Expression