Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament

Energy is power, and when it hits the resistance of your will it is forced to circle around itself. That’s the only way energy can stay in one place. The circle is such a powerful form in creation. It allows something to keep moving yet stay stationary. This is how samskaras are formed.

Feelings of loss or fear or anger in your heart are just objects of consciousness that Self is experiencing. They cannot harm you, unless you resist them.

Samskaras are not to be taken lightly; they seriously distort your experience of life.

Please understand that your mind will always think it’s right. The mind is not dumb; it knows what it experienced. But it doesn’t know what it didn’t experience—which is an infinitely larger body of knowledge. This is why the wise sage Lao Tzu reflected that a wise man does not argue—for what purpose?

One of the most amazing things you will ever realize is that the moment in front of you is not bothering you—you are bothering yourself about the moment in front of you. It’s not personal—you are making it personal. There are countless moments unfolding in the universe at any given time, and your relationship to all of them is exactly the same: you

When consciousness merges with the object of consciousness, you can feel the presence of God. In yogic philosophy, the Self is called sat-chit-ananda, eternal-conscious-bliss. When Self focuses one-pointedly on a single object, one experiences the nature of Self—total peace, contentment, and overwhelming bliss. This is available to us at any time i

Without question, when your heart emanates a particular vibration of energy, your mind will start talking accordingly. It’s very much like a freshwater spring.

a disturbance in the force.

Notice your surroundings coming in through your senses, your thoughts passing through your mind, and any emotions that arise in your heart creating feelings of comfort or discomfort within. These three inner experiences are the arena in which your consciousness plays the game of life on planet Earth.

Quantum physicists are exploring how the entire universe is emanating from an omnipresent, undifferentiated field of energy—the