A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe"; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.
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see also: On Marriage

Keep the company of those who seek the truth, and run away from those who have found it.

Does this mean we should trade meditation for psychotherapy? Not at all. Therapy isn't the solution either. Consciousness is! And consciousness grows in spirals.

If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you will be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life.

Faith simply means hiding ignorance, and it is very cheap.
Truth needs great energy, great urgency, and a total involvement in the search.
Truth is within you, faith comes from outside.
Anything that comes from outside is not going to help you.

Love is a rose flower in your being.
But prepare your being; dispel the darkness and the unconsciousness.
Become more and more alert and aware and love will come on its own accord, in its own time.
You need not worry about it. And whenever it comes it is always perfect.
Love is a spiritual experience -- nothing to do with sexes and nothing to do with bodies, but something to do with the innermost being.

Harmony naturally results in a deep silence, joy, delight.
Conflict results in anxiety, anguish, stress, tension.
The Ego is nothing but all the tensions that you have created around yourself.

Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing.
If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing.
You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one.
It is your choice.

Our life is frittered away by detail, Simplify, Simplify, Simplify! I say let your affairs be two or three and not a hundred or a thousand.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

And on my own tombstone, I dearly hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial.

Has nature laboured these billions of years just to bring forth this egoic mouse? (The Atman Project)

When a person rediscovers that his deepest Nature is one with the All, he is relieved from the burdens of time, of anxiety, of worry; he is released from the chains of alienation and separate-self existence. Seeing that self and other are one, he is released from the fear of life; seeing that being and nonbeing are one, he is delivered from the fear of death. (Up from Eden)

You triumph over death, not by living forever, but by living timelessly, by being present to the Present. You are not going to defeat death by identifying with the ego in the stream of time and then trying to make that ego go on forever in that temporal stream. You defeat death by finding that part of your own present awareness that never enters the stream of time in the first place and thus is truly Unborn and Undying. (1999 introduction to "Grace and Grit")

But genuine spirituality, we will see, is primarily a measure of depth and a disclosure of depth. There is more spirituality in reason's denial of God than there is in myth's affirmation of God, precisely because there is more depth. (And the transrational, in turn, discloses yet more depth, yet more Spirit, than either myth or reason). But the very depth of reason, its capacity for universal-pluralism, its insistence on universal tolerance, its grasp of global-planetary perspectivism, its insistence on universal benevolence and compassion: these are the manifestations of its genuine depth, its genuine spirituality. These capacities are not revealed to reason from without (by a mythic source); they, issue from within its own structure, its own inherent depth (which is why it does not need recourse to a mythic god to implement its agenda of universal benevolence, why even an "atheist" acting from rational-universal compassion is more spiritual than a fundamentalist acting to convert the universe in the name of a mythic-membership god). (Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, p.250)

And remember? There in the Heart, where the couple finally unite, the entire game is undone, the nightmare of evolution, and you are exactly where you were prior to the beginning of the whole show. With a sudden shock of the entirely obvious, you recognize your own Original Face, the face you had prior to the Big Bang, the face of utter Emptiness that smiles as all creation and sings as the entire Kosmos - and it is all undone in that primal glance, and all that is left is the smile, and the reflection of the moon on a quiet pond, late on a crystal clear night. (A Brief History of Everything, page 43 and concluding passage)

... once you get a strong glimpse of One Taste, you can lose all motivation to fix those holes in your psychological basement. You might have a deep and painful neurosis, but you no longer care, because you are no longer identified with the bodymind. There is a certain truth in that. But this attitude, nonetheless, is a profound violation of the bodhisattva vow, the vow to communicate One Taste to sentient beings in a way that can liberate all. You might be happy not to work on neurotic crap, but everybody around you can see that you are a neurotic jerk, and therefore when you announce you are really in One Taste, all they will remember is to avoid that state at all costs.(One Taste, page 138-9)

[postconservative, postliberal spirituality] does not seek to impose its belief structures on others, but invites each and all to develop their own potentials, therein to discover their own deep spirituality, radiant to infinity, glowing in the dark, happy for all time, this simple discovery of your own Original Face, your divine soul and spirit, shining even now. (Theory of Everything, page 82)

see also: The Centauric Hero and Vision of a Transpersonal Society

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