All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.
As far as I'm concerned, the spiritual life is just like any other endeavor-you can succeed or fail. And when the goal is actual evolution beyond ego in an intersubjective context, success or failure is plain for all to see.
When you are no more identified with your physicality, you become available to Grace.
Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.
The moment you ascribe who you are right now to what happened yesterday, you have written off your life.
Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.
We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.
If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.
Essentially, yoga means dissolving your identity.
Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen.
Your ability to love, to reach out, and to experience life is limitless. The limitation is only of the body and mind.
Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.
Until you allow yourself to blossom into a state of boundlessness, you should not be content, you must burn with discontent.
You do not have to pursue something intensely; you as a being should become very intense.
There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.
Your body and your mind can be receptacles to perceive the whole cosmos - if only you do not identify yourself with them.
Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless.
If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being.
Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.
Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.
The phrase, 'You must die before you die,' is found in most of the world religions. If you don't learn how to die early, you spend the rest of your life avoiding failure. When you can free your True Self, the whole spiritual life opens up.
I have a strong spiritual life. I can't say that I have faith that Jesus is my Savior, but I look at Jesus in the same way that I look at, you know, Mohammed. He was giving everyone the goods. So was Gandhi.
Cooking is a holistic process of planning, preparing, dining and sharing food. I place food at the center of our humanity, as it nourishes not only our physical bodies but also our emotional and spiritual lives. Food is truly a cultural phenomenon that informs our traditions and our relationship with the earth. I genuinely believe that food connects us all.
Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.
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