And the power of the human intellect is based on discrimination, individual differences; if we can tell the difference between this and that, and we can do it better than anybody else, we get paid more.

Thus the “guides” must be at a certain stage of their own evolution in order to be environments for awakening through death. They must have a connection with planes of consciousness beyond time and space that lead them to have a philosophical foundation that allows them to be balanced and without panic in the face of death. They must view death not

The whole spiritual journey is a continuous act of falling on our faces.

If we don’t deviate the flow or color it with our own trips, it comes through purely in whatever form it is our dharma to express, and the mind is freed.

The whole spiritual journey is a continuous act of falling on our faces.

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

So at the beginning is eclecticism, at the end is universality, and in the middle is the lineage.

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

And how do we make an offering to Kali? The things that don’t liberate us, we give up. What do we give up? Unworthiness. We don’t need to analyze it; we just give it up. We give up guilt. Guilt isn’t going to get us to God. We give up anger. It’s not going to free us. Preoccupation with our own melodrama—we give up. Do we want to hold on to it, or