“All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer One of the things you should expect if you…

To the human mind it is easier to pay homage to (or await the return of) a dead mystic than pay heed to one who may actually walk amongst us. This is the first…

“To expound and propagate concepts is simple. To drop all concepts is difficult and rare.” – Nisargadatta Maharaj Some of the ‘smartest’ people I know, the ones with all the acronyms and letters after…

“That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something. – Meredith Monk First a…

It’s been roughly three years since the launch of this blog and if I had to sum up everything I’ve learned over that stretch of time it would boil down to something like this:…

“The entire spiritual dilemma, you know, boils down to only one problem — denial. Denial that everything which is born will die. Denial that everything I want to keep — identity, possessions, friends, family,…