The Self that is being lost is the self image that your mind has made. Any false identification with thoughts, emotions, forms, or anything you can perceive. The Self that is being gained is the deeper Awareness that can perceive the self image. The true Self beneath the illusions of the mind. Pure Consciousness, free from false ...

An Awakening has begun, an Awakening to a deeper realm within yourself, a deeper experience. In a Spiritual Awakening colors are more bright, thoughts are more clear, the filter of the mind has been put aside opening true Awareness. During the experience, doubts, worries, desires, hopes and problems, all the debris normally floating in and clogging the ...

One philosopher asserted that he knew the whole secret. He surveyed the two celestial strangers from top to toe, and maintained to their faces that their persons, their Worlds, their suns, and their stars, were created solely for the use of man.At this assertion our two travelers let themselves fall against each other, seized with ...

If you fall, get up. If you fall again, get up again. Fight, Run, Finish. You did all the time, when you were younger. You learned to talk, to walk, to eat, and do all the basics in this manner. You tried something and it did not work. You might have thrown a brief fit, but ...

As we are doing with absurd and uninformed and shortsighted methods of getting rid of insect pests, of forcing our fruit and tomatoes to grow, of stripping our hills of trees and so on and so on, thinking that this is some kind of progress when actually it is turning everything into a junk heap.It ...

When you hear the word stillness you immediately think of it as the opposite of movement - but stillness is something quite different altogether.  Stillness is an energetic quality of being. It is naturally present in the heart of every Human being, equally so. Sometimes after a few cups of coffee or a fight we might not ...

There is a basic change going on with the younger generation that is strange to older people. There is a change in the way you define freedom, the way your define power, and the way you define community, and these changes really suggest the real revolution. For my generation and generations before me, freedom was very simple. To ...

And therefore everything in the World has the characteristics of smoke; you know when you blow a cigarette or pipe or something and a cloud of some and you see it in the sunbeam. And it is full of whorls and designs and all kinds of marvelous things going on, and then slowly it disappears. Well ...

There was the first time you had sex, your first kiss, your first date, your first day of school, your first day at a job, driving a car, swimming in the ocean. There was the first time you ran a race, the first time you bought a house ... Most of these things were firsts that happened so ...

I believe nature is a force of good. Good is not only a concept it is a spirit. So hopefully the spirit of goodness will survive. Nature represents rebirth, rejuvenation, regeneration. The task that we face today is to understand the language of nature. The fact that we lack the language skills to communicate with nature does ...

Life is simply transcendental - neither purpose nor no purpose, neither meaning nor no meaning. It is not going anywhere. There is no goal to life, and if you have a goal then you are going against life, and you will suffer -because you will be trying to go upstream. You will have to struggle, and all ...

There is a significant difference between time and attention. Time is the ticking of the clock where minutes and hours pass by with or without you. Attention is how you are clicking while the clock is ticking. Time does not matter. What matters is the quality of your experiences. And your experiences are determined by what ...

Miss Earth is an annual international environmental-themed beauty pageant promoting environmental Awareness. Along with its rivals Miss World and Miss Universe, Miss Earth is one of the three largest beauty pageants in the World in terms of the number of national-level competitions to participate in the World finals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-2pPE9KVgE The reigning titleholders dedicate their year to promote ...

When you think you control something, you are wrong. It is amazing how often you think you are in control of something when really you are not. Control is an illusion. You constantly make plans that never actually turn out the way you envisioned. How often are you trying to control a future that you can ...

When you learn to fall in Love with existence, when you thrive not because you are forced to, but because thriving allows you to fall more in Love with existing then you truly live and do not to merely exist. The single most important energy on Earth, what merely itself is able to transform everything into gold. The ...

There is a difference between your Ego and your soul. Your Ego is the image you have of yourself and your social mask, whereas your soul is who you truly are. It is eternal, divine and inherently worthwhile. When you align with your soul, life flows more naturally and taking action is less of a struggle. ...

There are innumerable definitions of happiness. Everybody has their own definition depending on their outlook about life. Some get it from money, or fame, or helping others while others get it by being close to their loved ones. The word happiness produces close to 50 million Google results! Irrespective of the inputs, happiness is a state of ...

Even if you are considered to be the most sinful of all sinners, when you are situated in the boat of Transcendental knowledge, you will be able to cross over the ocean of miseries.As the blazing fire turns firewood to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge burn to ashes all reactions to ...