When I was seven years old, my mother showed me what the Heart was. I can remember it vividly. I was standing in a room in our house we referred to as the den. It was daytime. My mother had already taught me that the Heart was not a physical organ, nor could it be reached by thought. I closed …
If we are within….
If we are within our narrative, what we call love is really power.
Stressed….
Stressed Tranquil Challenged / Vigilant Numb / Asleep
Monkey See, Monkey Don’t….
I feel like such an idiot. I thought that if I did my best to live an exemplary life, others would see it and want to follow that life. For many years I have openly modeled a life that is informed by the yamas and the niyamas, the restraints and observances in all religious traditions that lead a person down …
Numbing is drowning….
Numbing is drowning out one vibration with another–not moving towards stillness.
Surrendered….
Surrendered Resistant Beaten Resilient
Discerning Evil….
We all must mourn the loss of innocence—of the delusion that everyone cares about others’ best interests—and accept the existence of evil in the world. In an Absolute sense, everything arises from Love. Dante understood this; in his Commedia, evil is simply twisted Love. But though evil, like everything else, arises from Love, it rejects its origin and deludes itself …
Love, as the ground….
Love, as the ground of All, leads us to Unity; it is both the source and the end of every separate self. Evil, because it is the extremity of separateness, denies Love. This is why evil can never last: it denies its own foundation.
Wound tight
Wound tight Open and relaxed Self-disciplined Out of control
Shrinking the Monster….
When we encounter someone who is evil, we usually react with fear. We do not understand them and want to run away. They are monsters to us, and we feel powerless. If we want to shrink these monsters, we must begin the process of uncovering how they came to be as they are. These monsters are human beings who committed …