• Holiday Depression: A Call to Nonduality?

    If the season has you hurting, longing, or otherwise feeling out of sorts, I urge you toward nonduality. It’s the only path to truth, because it is not a path at all and has…

    December 30, 2012
  • Why Do You and Your Belief in You Exist?

    “Why does the universe go through all the bother of existing?” – Stephen Hawking Am I living a life or am I a life being lived? Am I or am I not? And if…

    December 9, 2012
  • The Timeless Quality of I Am

    “There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.” – The Buddha Have you noticed that ‘you’ really never age? That there is a timeless quality to you?…

    November 26, 2012
  • The Inherited I

    “I am the miracle.” – Buddha Do you wander through the typical day hurting or happy? Were you raised in a supportive, loving, stable family environment? Or was your parenting malignant, indifferent, nonexistent? Was…

    November 16, 2012
  • Forget the Talking Snakes; Get Rid of the Flare

    “In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald It’s easy to blame the loneliness of the spiritual path on the reluctance (or refusal)…

    October 12, 2012
  • Overcoming the Terrible Master

    By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.” – Confucius When author David Foster Wallace…

    October 5, 2012