Without the alignment of view, practice, and fruit, the spiritual path doesn’t accomplish anything of substance. For many people, that doesn’t really matter, since spirituality is basically a hobby for them, even if they wouldn’t say so.

Pratibhā simultaneously means intuitive insight, embodied instinct, and spontaneous inspiration.

It’s possible to reach a point where there are either no self-images left or the ones that remain are so thoroughly enervated that one simply can’t be bothered to waste any energy on defending them. They become nothing more than inert thoughts floating on the ocean of consciousness like so much driftwood. With nothing left that needs justifying or

You are perfectly human, right now. Your so-called flaws do not indicate unworthiness or deficiency any more than the dark spots on the moon indicate some kind of lunar unworthiness or deficiency. Everyone has flaws, and your unique set of flaws do not uniquely vitiate your value. Flaws are just part of being human. It’s how we’re supposed to be.

labeling a person (or even a place) as having “negative energy” is a way of avoiding responsibility for your own inner state. I would argue that shifting this paradigm is crucial for one’s spiritual life.

Acting on the basis of love is inherently nourishing.

The ego would rather be right than happy.

Considering this, it is incumbent upon you to do some self-inquiry: Is your attempt to change any given behavior based in love or self-hatred? Here’s a clue: if your striving to change is hard and effortful, if you beat yourself up for perceived failures in that process and need acknowledgement for perceived successes, it’s almost definitely based

Whatever is yet to come will necessarily be an organic development of what is already happening now. Therefore, the best way to be prepared for the future is to pay attention to the whole of your experience in the now, especially its subtle dimensions, like the little intuitive feeling that a certain situation is not quite right. (I would suggest