Grist for the Mill: Awakening to Oneness

But to have what we seek, we have to go beyond knowing and become it. It is a peculiar predicament, that this knowledge can only be known by transforming ourselves into the knowledge itself.

When we try to grab it, up we go and down we come, with nothing but another high to add to our collection of moldering butterflies.

Flick to the next channel and what happens is that everything out there disappears, and we disappear, and there’s nobody looking at anything. The whole television disappears. It all goes back into the Void from whence it came. It returns to the formless—to that which lies behind the One. It is what God is—not the concept of God, but God Itself. In

Part of becoming conscious is not trying to impose a limited rational model on how the world is but rather realizing that the rational model is a finite subsystem and that the law of the universe is infinite.

At first, when we have just started the spiritual journey, every time we are confronted with all the things we’re afraid of—disasters or accidents or we get mugged or we get raped or we lose our job or something “awe-ful” happens—we say, “Oh, get away from me. I want happiness. I want pleasure. I didn’t know this was part of the bargain.” But later

Our true strength lies in our honesty with ourselves about our predicament.

What do you want for dessert, ice cream? I’m gonna have some coffee. What’s on television? No, let’s go bowling. Bicycle? Great. Ice cream soda? Let’s go home. Okay. Want to go to bed? Okay. Ah, that’s great. Got a cigarette?” On and on and in the middle of the main course, we’re already thinking about what we’ll have for dessert. The way we deal w

We are all the Ancient One. We are the One. And the One becomes the many—for the play, for the sport, for the dance—and we can get lost in the many in realities one, two, three, or four. But on channel five, there is only one of us, not intellectual or metaphorical. In that reality, we are one. Every reality up to this point is an equally valid, re

As we enter into the realm of channel six, the last moment of recognition of any kind of self-consciousness is the realization that all of channels one through five were creations of mind. A liberated being is a being who is free to be in, but not attached to, any of the realities. It is a being who can enter into the ocean of channel six and yet r