I was sent forth from the power, and I have come to those who reflect upon me, and I have been found among those who seek after me. Look upon me, you who reflect upon me, and you hearers, hear me. You who are waiting for me, take me to yourselves. And do not banish [...]

The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up [...]

You have the right to work, but for the work's sake only. You have no right to the fruits of work. Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working. Never give way to laziness, either. Perform every action with you heart fixed on the Supreme Lord. Renounce attachment to the [...]

Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church. If you do well, you do well wherever you are. If you fail, you fail wherever you are. Your surroundings don't matter. God is with you everywhere - in the marketplace as well [...]

How can it be conceived that something veils Him since.... He is the One who manifests everything? He is the one who is manifest through everything? He is the One who is manifests in everything? He is the Manifest to everything? He was the Manifest before the existence of anything? He is more manifest than [...]

In 2007 I was invited by a Lakota friend to undergo a guided vision quest in New Mexico's Sacramento mountains. Unlike my DIY vision quest of a year earlier, this one would follow in the Lakota tradition. We stripped four saplings to serve as the prayer circle's four corners' posts (signifying the four directions of [...]

Once upon a time during the early 1970s I lived with my father on the top floor of an apartment building situated a dozen or so miles from downtown Washington, D.C. One morning shortly before departing for his secretive Pentagon job, my father announced he'd be gone for an extended stretch of time due to [...]

It's a discovery unique to the earnest spiritual seeker: one day it is discovered that a longtime source of angst or illness is no longer as acute or has simply vanished. For a time I may not even recognize the change, may still feel anxious or lost or melancholy; may still struggle with a chronic [...]

Searching for peace, happiness, truth, God, meaning, I spent years exploring a variety of religious, spiritual, metaphysical, and alternative teachings. One by one, however, each failed me due to their various inventor-inspired rites, rituals, teachers, and related orthodoxies. Note here the inventor wasn't the mystic behind those religions. To the contrary, anyone who studies the [...]

Spirituality is often dismissed as the domain of fantasists, the reasoning being that if one can't touch, smell, hear, taste, see or think it, it's of no tangible benefit to those occupied by the 'real world.' Yet what most of our species thinks of as the real world - the one they're busy sensing and [...]