The Direct Path of Advaita Vedantic philosophy is based on one’s experience. All truth is based on experiential knowledge. It takes courage to ask, “What do we know for certain?” “What is our actual experience?” When we looking beyond what we have always assumed, there is the possibility of freeing ourselves from the assumptions that constrict and restrain our unbounded spirit. …
Growth= Discomfort: Me & My Comfort Zone
“There is no greater battle in life than the battle between the parts of you that want to be healed and the parts of you that are comfortable and content remaining broken.” Iyanla Vanzant. I lived in a protected comfort zone most of my adult life. I didn’t trust myself to show up in what I perceived were challenging situations. I had …
Eckhart Tolle guides us away from Thought Identity
Here are some powerful quotes from bestselling author and international spiritual teacher, Eckhart Tolle. I invite you to breathe a bit deeper, relax and feel the shift you can easily make away from “thought-based identity” to identification with the aware knowing in which thought arises, that is to say, The Now. In Stillness Speaks, Tolle writes: “When you step into the …
Powerful Questions to promote “The Shift”
We are all walking this path of waking up to a deeper connection to the ease and flow that is always already present, just “below” the nattering mind. This is us in our essential nature—spacious presence or beingness; relaxing into that silent presence changes everything, as Eckhart Tolle explains in The Power of Now. Here are a series of questions gathered …
Enlightenment: Plain and Simple
Simply stated, enlightenment is simply being, or as spiritual teacher and bestselling author, Eckhart Tolle, explains, “Enlightenment is a felt oneness with being”. As we relax away from thoughts, emotion and all resistance (judgment, evaluation, story) and into our essential nature underneath all the mental noise and emotional ups and downs, we see everything as it is (as a unity or …
Letting Go of the Story of Me
If I can begin to let go of the story of who I am, I can drop into my essential nature. Granted, these are words that can only point in a direction of the rich experience of entering a spacious awareness. Yet the words point in the direction of a transformative experience that changes our relationship with ourselves and life …
The Culture’s Costly Concept of Me
Once we have explored our so-called “inner world” to find that there is not an object called “me”, a monumental shift begins to take place. What is that shift? It is the transformational shift from living as an entity called “me” and all the entanglement that that me creates, to living from a peaceful, spacious presence that a quiet mind provides. …
Meditation: A Joy Ride
Finding my way back to joy, to a quiet connected spaciousness becomes easier with practice. This is the essential purpose of a spiritual practice: to move my attention from the outside world of doing and to do lists—striving—and conceptual narrative—figuring out, interpreting, judging and evaluating, all provided by the seemingly-helpful thought stream. Finding my way back to joy, by releasing …
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