Last year my mind exploded and now I'm in spiritual puberty again

What’s actually important to me is that you really understand that this is a real possibility, for you, in your life. If you practice with honest diligence, with tenderness and patience and determination, one day you will understand that you were completely wrong about everything. And you will be so, so happy about that.

What seems to change, when you perceive wholeness, is that you experience suffering as part of a larger picture, with the assurance that the larger picture is basically wonderful. But this might sound conceptual or philosophical, like a long series of thoughts. And that is wrong.

The feeling of wholeness is simple and immediate. It’s that the promis... See more

the judging function creates a sense of incompleteness, or wrongness. Like our present circumstances are never quite right. We are drawn to the flaw, the trace of hunger or thirst approaching, the trace of menace in the happy crowd.

The opposite of this experience is thoroughgoing wholeness, inner and outer. A sense that the universe is fundamentall... See more

Dropping the resistance to loneliness allowed me to slip into deeper sensations of flow. It was almost as if the emotional resistance had been preventing the emergence of a more intuitive part of my will. There were a few memorable walks I took where the feeling of solitude felt like a portal into an exquisitely smooth parallel world. When I allowe... See more