Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. — Psalms 46:10
All this Talk and Turmoil
All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement is outside the veil; inside the veil is silence and calm and peace. — Bayezid Bistami
Getting Your Life in Order
One of my teachers once said, “If you haven’t got your basic life in order and have not begun to live a life of calmness, stability, service, honesty, practicing the basic virtues and then you meditate or do other spiritual practices, it’s like having a cow that eats organic grass and gives wonderful organic milk, [More …]
Some Remarks on Subtlety
There are capacities we have, energies that could produce radically different results in our lives, up to the point of even producing another kind of body: an energetic body, another higher level body which has more of a cosmic significance and cosmic reality than a physical reality. This higher-level body is more like the stars [More …]
