Sufism is often called the way of the heart because the heart can dissolve barriers, particularly the barriers within ourselves. The primary cause of our illusion is our unwillingness to see ourselves. We’ve been told we’re supposed to be a certain thing, a certain way, yet we’re not. It’s difficult to reconcile what we are …
The Way of the Heart
Published: Sat, 02/24/24
If you lost your critical mind, wouldn’t you be way better off? Actually… Nonduality isn’t about losing it. It’s about simply seeing it with honesty. Nonduality is about getting rid of that super critical part of your mind; that part that always sees everything is wrong.
This calms the mind. Calming the Mind reveals our inner Spirit… where Beauty and Harmony naturally reside.
The Way of the Heart
Humans Have Big Brains
Human beings have really big brains, but we haven’t been using them to the best of our ability. In fact, I think we’re not using much of our full consciousness because we are so stuck in intelligence type thinking. We’re stuck in believing that intelligence is knowledge, that we can build up lots of things …
Paradox exists
Spirituality, really, is just admitting that all sorts of paradoxes exist. There are so many things that we can’t sort out with our thinking mind… but our being loves it just the way is.
— Our Ability To Think —
Our ability to think as human beings has really gotten us into a lot of trouble. There is a huge vast reservoir of Consciousness inside all of us that’s tons smarter than just the thinking can manage. As we open up this vast reservoir of intelligence, we’re going to do some great things.
There is No Path
There is no path because you are going home… and… you’re sitting in your living room. We all inhabit ourselves. It’s easy to get hypnotized into thinking that we don’t, but we do. You’re always there; you’re always awake. Imagination can drift off, misconceptions can drift off, but you’re always there. So, there actually is …
The Veil is Thin
The veil that separates us from truth, from beauty, from life, and reality is very thin. It actually doesn’t exist at all; it’s composed of some very light misconceptions that we have about who we are. Working through that can feel very disconcerting because we hold on to those things as if that is what’s …
Finding Your Enlightened Ancestors
When we listen to our native brethren from anywhere around the earth, they are always specific about how important ancestors are. It does makes sense, because that solidifies us to a place where our ancestors lived, taught each other, and brought forward the wisdom of the earth. That’s how wisdom comes down to the present …
Buddha and thoughts
Buddha says that thoughts begin in silence. The spoken word does as well… As long as I’m not talking, right? Because first there’s silence then there’s words.
Buddha lived really a long time ago, in a totally different society, and yet what he said is still relevant to us today, because the Human Experience is unity.
There is a huge huge difference in believing that spirituality is really hard, and difficult to attain, or in thinking that human beings are naturally spiritual.
Beauty is all around us
Beauty is all around us, all the time. Even in the smallest things. Really, the spiritual moment, is when you pause and see it all.
— Seeing your own face —
If you had never encountered a mirror you wouldn’t be able to see your own face. As a matter of fact, you don’t even see your own face in a mirror… you just see a reflection.
Where Are You?
“Wherever you go there you are.” One of the best ways to find out who you are is to figure out where are you.
You aren’t your culture, but we, you and me, are so vastly intertwined with it that it’s very useful to examine culture itself to help know who you are. Ultimately, we find out that we are what we are. We’re a vast interconnection with everything. And so, in the end, we are infinitely connected with each other and with culture itself.
Pause for the beauty
As we work through ideas on spirituality, it’s important to very regularly pause and experience the beauty that we live in. We are cosmic beings in a cosmic cosmos. Imagine, just for a moment, the vastness of the universe. You are sitting here; I am sitting here experiencing this as an amazing complex of molecules …
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