When your true nature is realized, it is not as if you will have some amazing experience, and after that say, “Okay world, I’m ready.” The deepest experience is when you realize that this open, radiant, empty mind and open, radiant heart have always been open.  They don’t need to open, they are not going [...]

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen [...]

I promise you not a moment will be lost as long as I have heart & voice to speak & we will walk again together with a thousand others & a thousand more & on & on until there is no one among us who does not know the truth: there is no future without [...]

“Don’t forget love; it will bring all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe.” ― Mirabai

the essential nature of love and loving is eternal this is the mysterious language of the heart that knows not separation distance otherness only one unbroken movement love rising cresting falling into love

“Breathe on me, breath of God, fill me with life anew, That I may love what thou dost love, and do what thou wouldst do, Breathe on me, breath of God, until my heart is pure, Until with thee I will one will, to do and to endure. Breathe on me, breath of God, till [...]

People are fond of saying that you can’t unring a bell And while that may be true, you can certainly smother it’s ring under the dull roar of conjecture and lies But some words ring out like church bells rising about the din, calling us to the Truth Some words are immortal long buried or [...]

As Hamlet said to Ophelia, “God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.” The battle between who we are and who we pretend to be is unwinnable. Living divided no more, ending the war inside, bringing the balm of peace to unlove. What was your face before you were born? Inside out, [...]

Let sorrowful longing dwell in your heart, never give up, never losing hope. The Beloved says, “The broken ones are My darlings.” Crush your heart, be broken. – Shaikh Abu Saeed Abil Kheir – “Nobody, Son of Nobody” – Vraje Abramian My prayer today…to surrender in sweet openness to the magnitude of love that is [...]

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson