“What is the greatest wonder? Each day death strikes, and we live as though we were immortal. This is the greatest wonder.” – The Mahabharata Let’s get to something uncomfortably real, shall we? Death. The attachment to life is...
True freedom is not for the faint of heart. Most of us want to be free. At least that’s what we think we want. We claim we want to be free from pain, free from suffering, free from any kind of inner turmoil. And of course free to be, do, and have...
Self-inquiry (also written self-enquiry) has been developed and promoted by Indian sage Ramana Maharshi as the most direct method to self-realization (also referred to as truth-realization, abiding non-dual awareness, and enlightenment). The technique can be...
There are so many different types of spirituality floating around that you might wonder, “Who comes up with all this stuff?” After all, is not all spirituality directed at the same common goal – to wake humanity up? Though many would...
“The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.” – Antisthenes We all would like to believe we are thinking for ourselves, but honestly, we are not. For most of my life, I can tell you, I have hardly been...
“There seem to be two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting,...