The true marriage is with God. The reason we form a conscious marriage on the physical plane with a partner is to do the work of coming to God together. That is the only reason for marrying when we are conscious. The only reason. If we marry for economics, if we marry for passion, if we marry for romantic love, if we marry for convenience, if we

Some of us, I am sure, recognize that game. When Einstein said, “I did not arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind,” many of his colleagues thought him quite eccentric—because the rational mind has been the high priest of the society. Realize that it’s merely a tiny system and that there are

But it turns out that Christ was right when he said, “Lay not up your treasures where moth and rust doth corrupt and thieves break in.” Buddha was right when he said, “The cause of suffering is craving,” craving after things that are not permanent, and nothing is permanent.

At the moment of death, if we let go lightly, we go out into the light, toward the One, toward God. The only thing that died, after all, was another set of thoughts of who we were this time around.

Spiritual practices such as meditation slowly help us to extricate ourselves from attachment to the levels of illusion of our separateness.

But the predicament is that enlightenment is not an achievement; enlightenment is a transformation of being. And the achiever goes as well as the achievement.

But what is the condition necessary so that the moment comes when we see through the veil in a way that changes everything from then on, so that from a minute past six to twelve o’clock our whole journey changes its meaning? What’s necessary for that to happen is despair. We realize that everything we think we can do to create perfection isn’t

But the predicament is that enlightenment is not an achievement; enlightenment is a transformation of being. And the achiever goes as well as the achievement.

If we cling to anything in form, we’re going to suffer.