Occupation: Writer Birth: January 31, 1949
The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life by living it….
Be the most ethical, the most responsible, the most authentic you can be with every breath you take, because you are cutting a path into tomorrow tha….
Da Free John's phrase kept running through my mind: "Practice the wound of love... practice the wound of love." Real love hurts; real love makes you ….
One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences..
The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will..
The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for enlighte….
I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces ….
You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place..
To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole. Such is the circ….
Increasing consciousness = increasing complexity..
The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both..
Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence..
I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska..
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus th….
Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time..
Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only th….
Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and i….
Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news..
Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences..
Like going to the dentist, where you write: "Dental appointment today. All of the dentists in Boulder are 'holistic.' They can't fill a cavity but th….
And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment yo….