love is a place

. Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Consciou...

    . We have to be very alert and careful here. For we tend to try to fix the essential content of our discussion in a particular concept o...

   . We grow accustomed to the Dark - When light is put away - As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp To witness her Goodbye - A Moment - We un...

   . 1. The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally ...

   . The fading away of the Tao is when openness turns into spirit, spirit turns into energy, and energy turns into form. When form is born,...

  . Go deeper Past thoughts into silence. Past silence into stillness. Past stillness into the heart. Let love consume all that is left of y...

. Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the...

  . The man who wishes to know the "that" which is "thou" may set to work in any one of three ways. He may begin by look...

     . If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the...

   . My soul itself may be straight and good; ah, but my heart, my bent-over blood, all the distortions that hurt me inside  it buckles unde...

    . As you now have the definition of the atom (I am quoting from the Standard Dictionary) it is: “An atom is a centre of force, a phase o...

   . Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins? Who finds us here circling, bewitched, like atoms? —Rumi . God pours light into ...

        . No solid object is solid. It is made up of rapidly flashing packets of energy. Billions and trillions of packets of energy. They f...

   . Thomas Merton wrote, “there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.”  There is al...

   . life is a garden, not a road we enter and exit through the same gate wandering, where we go matters less than what we notice —Bokonon .

  . We find ourselves in a world structured by matter and energy in space and time, and in that world each of us inhabits a body, one among ...

  . The future is a concept, it does not exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That is...

   . I am, O Anxious One. Don't you hear my voice surging forth with all my earthly  feelings?  They yearn so high, that they have sprou...

   . We are made of contracted water, earth, light and air - not merely prior to the recognition or representation of these, but prior to th...