Jesus did not deviate from his truth even at the cost of crucification. How far are we willing to go before we decide to modify, embellish, abandon, or trade our truth for the convenience and comfort of our being? Be true. Be kind. Be yourself.

Just as the sun makes it possible to grow crops from which to make cloth that can be turned into a curtain that may screen the sunlight so ego is an expression of the Self which seemingly screens out the self. Yet, the curtain is not different from the sun; the ego is not different from the Self. The sun is always there, curtain or no curtain. The Self is always there, ego or no ego. The wise don't get distracted by the veil, remaining vigilant of the divinity beyond at all times, in all beings.

Ego is not different from the Self. Ego and Self are two expressions of the same phenomenon. Ego is to Self as ice is to water. Even though it seems as if there is only one or the other, at all times both are present - either revealed or hidden, as manifestation or as potential.

The indifferent bystander is as much a perpetrator as the perpetrator itself. Mindfully disavow all evils that lurk within and without.

Some days I feel like finding a seat by the ocean... 
Gaze in the clear blue eyes of its expanse...
Lend an ear to the rumble of its muted conversations...
Become one with the infinity of things... 
Today is one such day... heart emoticon

A relationship, like a good book, requires staying power for it to reveal its charm, its mystery, pull you in a pain you can neither bear nor let go of, to enthrall you with delights unperceived and to invite you to be part of a world hitherto unknown. But the greatest gift of a relationship, as of a good book, is a deep longing to come closer to one's own self, to somehow learn about oneself through another, and in the process become one with that which until that point was the other. It's a journey of love.

Fear is to love as darkness is to light. Without love, one can overcome fear no more than without light one can drive away darkness. When light is lit, darkness has no choice but to dissipate, to disappear. Transcending fear has all to do with love and nothing to do with fear itself. For fear, like darkness, has no existence of its own. It is but simply the absence of love.

A desire that refuses to leave us frustrates us no less than a desire that we choose to not let go of. Either way restlessness gnaws at one's heart.

Nothing and everything exist together at all times.

Tapas = Fire of inner strength = You easily can, you desperately want to, and ... you don't.

Our demand for freedom to pursue our self-indulgent cravings and pursuits is no freedom at all. It is the bondage of first order, the root of all misery, and a self created prison from which no other can ever free is. True freedom is free even of the demand for freedom.

Accommodating another begins with accepting oneself. We cannot stand in another what we deny in our own self. An ambitious person cannot help but despise the lazy. It is only when we are able to accept all aspects of our being that we are able to experience all shades of love.

Knowledge of the world requires becoming;
Knowledge of self, being.

The mind is endless wanting while the being is endlessly without need. Beingness is the silence amid mind's deafening clamor, an oasis in a vast desert, a harbor in turbulent waters. The want of our mind is not the need of our being.