Occupation: Writer Birth: January 31, 1949
One of the extraordinary things about awakening is that it carries with it the realization that there is only Spirit. Even the things of the world th….
Real love will take you far beyond yourself;and therefore real love will devastate you..
If Spirit has any meaning, it must be omnipresent, or all-pervading and all-encompassing. There can't be a place where Spirit is not, or it wouldn't ….
All sentient beings - all holons in fact - contain Buddha-nature - contain depth, consciousness, intrinsic value, Spirit - and thus we are all member….
In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the d….
...we cannot simply recommend love and compassion per se, for those unfold from egocentric to ethnocentric to worldcentric, and do we really want an ….
Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest fo….
The only justifications for belief have the form "justified for me"..
Spirit slumbers in nature, awakens in mind, and finally recognizes itself as Spirit in the transpersonal domains..
In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a m….
An integral approach acknowledges that all views have a degree of truth, but some views are more true than others, more developed, more evolved, more….
Spirit forgets that it's Spirit and condenses to a smaller version of itself, which is soul. Soul forgets that it's soul and condenses to mind. Mind ….
The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon..
This is the world of One Taste, with no inside and no outside, no subject and no object, no in here versus out there, without means, without path and….
Human beings are born and begin their evolution through the great spiral of consciousness, moving from archaic to magic to mythic to rational to perh….
God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday; the Golden Age lies down ….
An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. ….
The understanding of "evolutionary consciousness" is perhaps the most important thing lacking in spiritual practices today. Evolution means growth an….
Perhaps the best place to begin with an integral approach to business is with.. oneself. In the Big Three of self, culture, and world, integral maste….
Were you somebody different a thousand years ago? Will you be somebody different a thousand years from now? What is this One Self that is forever you….
What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has n….