It is not the Sun that turns around us: the Sun doesn't come to shine down upon us. In fact, it is we who turn our faces toward the Sun. An important distinction. The sun was not made for us. We were made, and the Sun exists. From a birthright to a gift. From a …
As there is a category of facts to which our senses are our best available but very imperfect guides, as there is a category of truths which we seek by the keen but still imperfect light of our reason, so according to the mystic, there is a category of more subtle truths, which surpass the …
It is interesting that, in a country whose infrastructure is far less consistently developed than that of our own digital nation, I had far greater success in posting thoughts and impressions to this journal than I do now that I am home. Part of it is, of course, that the sheer volume of experiences, their …
Manny Muros: It is 4:30 am and I am at the Bangalore airport, tired, red-eyed, and feeling both completed and exhausted…. My heart is full of gratitude…. I had spent the previous night in a sleeper bus (12 hours) traveling from Goa to Bangalore….. I can feel my breath slow and calm, deep in my …
I expect that, having passed my bedtime by several hours now, I am exempt from morning yoga. There are some things you really must not allow to be pushed, though — the least effort is spent maintaining a ritual, then the ritual helps maintain everything else (such as reasonable sleeping hours and subsequent mental and …
Mrs. Rat Mrs. Rat was a good business woman. She ran a successful vegetable stall by the roadside. It was called "Cosmic Vegetables". Sometimes she would take the day off, and then hang up a somewhat curious sign which read: Closed. We have no mistakes today. This is due to the absence of mismanagement. …
Look: this beautiful dream.
The grace of going away is that your eyes are refreshed for when you return. What you see once in your daily, then see again and again, gains a transparency, loses its edges, so that after a time it is no longer visible at all. This is to be expected: our senses are used to …
I find in my readings that many of the experiences I have had, many of the thoughts to which I have been exposed — to which I have exposed myself — along my seeking path, have been spoken before. Some of them in ancient texts, whose context and imagery demand a certain patience and quiet …
The pattern for everything in life exists — within everything that exists. The strength of modern scientific process which seeks to name all things, giving them genus, order and phylum, or physical properties which can be described by the arc of an equation, carries its own limitations: by disconnecting one object from another, we gain …
The weather having softened somewhat today, I fired up the R100 and took it out on the road to make sure my driving skills hadn't deteriorated. I pulled out into the correct lane — that would be the right one this side of Her Majesty's Commonwealth, I think. The shift from a 225cc buzzing insect …
Manny Muros: I had been looking forward to my time alone but I've had quite a bit of apprehension about it. I have never spent this much time on my own. The four weeks journeying with Mark have been amazingly special. It was great to share the intensity of the travel and the constant humorous …