We automatically block out how things really look in perspective, and through an act of mind we adjust the data.

Everything acquires its “realness” from the mode of consciousness applied to it.

If time is a construct, the same is true for the other things we consider essential to the universe. Our experience of matter and energy is quite species-specific.

You weren’t shaped by what happened to you since birth. You were shaped by what you thought about those happenings.

flow, like creativity, is a state of awareness that covers multiple dimensions. A person is “in the flow” when everything seems to go right, obstacles melt away, and answers come effortlessly. Each aspect occupies its own dimension, yet somehow they get coordinated when flow is experienced. There is a sense of calmness and also the experience of ha

There is no escaping that we live in a mind-made world. This is both the glory and the peril of being human.

In some mysterious way, each of us occupies a timeless domain, and to produce a four-dimensional world for the purpose of living in it, we mentally construct it. That is, we create the world in consciousness first and foremost. Reality, including ordinary clock time, is constructed in consciousness as well. We must not fall into the trap of saying

My contention is that existence is consciousness; therefore, no animal ability is astonishing (except in our one-eyed view), because every life form expresses traits that belong to pure consciousness.

Chasing worldly desires is what life is all about to the vast majority of people. Being still and quiet, by the same token, feels very uncomfortable for many.