1000 Fold Life

Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.

“What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe”

“The words you speak become the house you live in.”

The recognition of illusion as illusion, does not necessarily end the illusion. However, it ends the involvement with the illusion. This is enough!

Our vast collections of knowledge and experience are just part of ego’s display, part of the grandiose quality of ego. We display them to the world and, in so doing, reassure ourselves that we exist, safe and secure, as “spiritual” people.

I believe in going back to the magic of the earth and the lake, the sky and the universe. That kind of magic. I believe in that kind of religion. A religion of the rocks, the lake, the water, the sky. Yes, that’s what I believe in.

“Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.”

“Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.”

It engenders all. It embraces all. It annihilates all.

Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the plowshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring, and reserve a nook of shadow for the passing bird; keep a place in your heart for the unexpected guests, an altar for the unknown God. Then if a bird sing among your branches, do not be too eager to tame it.

Normalcy

“Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn't create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written.”