Occupation: Writer Birth: January 31, 1949
I believe that evidence shows that there is a real spirit, a real Beach, but it is beneath no pavement whatsoever, for all pavements arise within it:….
In other words, the real problem is not exterior. The real problem is interior. The real problem is how to get people to internally transform, from e….
AQAL is a map of samsara, a map of the prison, but if you gonna make a prison brake,you need a good map. (laughter).
When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightening cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is….
Change of state is not the point; recognizing the Changeless is the point, recognizing primordial Emptiness is the point, and if you are breathing an….
As Hubert Benoit said, it is not the identification with the ego that is the problem, but the exclusive nature of the identification. When our self-i….
Meditation, then, is not so much a part of this or that particular religion, but rather part of the universal spiritual culture of all humankind--an ….
Raindrops are beating, a large puddle is forming, there on the balcony. It all floats in Emptiness, in purest Transparency, with no one here to watch….
THE ULTIMATE METAPHYSICAL SECRET, if we dare state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products ….
Subpersonalities can exist at different levels or memes, however, so that one can indeed have a purple subpersonality, a blue subpersonality, and so ….
The most striking feature of the perennial philosophy/psychology is that it presents being and consciousness as a hierarchy of dimensional levels, mo….
So it is a good idea to start simple, I think, and be very careful. There is a spiritual opening in the Kosmos. Let us be careful of how we fill it. ….
Freedom is an endless meeting..
We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always been,….
Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are with God today, pe….
I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time..
Is this a topic whose time has truly come? The integration of science and religion? Or have I just written a clever book that temporarily impressed a….
On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial..
And resting in the ocean, dipped into the sea, I find glimmers of One Taste everywhere..
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….
... they are structures that we build every time we engage in a thought that's just a little bit higher than a thought we had a moment before, or an ….