Occupation: Writer Birth: January 31, 1949
I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today..
Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of grasping, free of….
The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wond….
What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this new theory in ….
Truth, in the broadest sense, means being attuned with the real. To be authentically in touch with the true, and the good and the beautiful. Yes?.
Organismic awareness is awareness of the Present only - you can't taste the past, smell the past, see the past, touch the past, or hear the past. Nei….
The integral approach is committed to the full spectrum of consciousness as it manifests in all its extraordinary diversity. This allows the integral….
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….
"Transcending the ego" thus actually means to transcend but include the ego in a deeper and higher embrace, first in the soul or deeper psychic, then….
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 ….
And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment yo….
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 ….
Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress--in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news..
The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance willing to reject un….
Evolution occurs in the world of time and space and form, whereas Spirit's primordial nature is finally timeless and Formless, prior to the of evolut….
The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The Self is present as P….
The only justifications for belief have the form "justified for me"..
Global consciousness is not an objective belief that can be taught to anybody and everybody, but a subjective transformation in the interior structur….
Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence..
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….