Sacred Inquiry: Questions That Can Transform Your Life

The anger that you mentioned, which arose from the insight that “my entire life, as it is, is my doing,” is coming from your mind’s resistance (conscious or unconscious) and judgment of this very insight. Imagine having the exact same insight with absolutely no resistance and no judgment. Take a moment now to imagine it. To take full responsibility

Sacred inquiry is not simply about finding simplistic answers to life’s big questions; it is about transforming our consciousness so that we are living the answers, not simply knowing them as pieces of information.

It is useful to understand that enlightenment itself is not fixed. It is not limited to any particular insight or moment of awakening; it is also the fluid and dynamic functioning of the totality of conscious life. That is why, with the dawning of enlightenment, there is nothing to attain or grab hold of—there is only the truth as it appears and fu

First, the ego-mind is magnetically drawn to negativity because that is what sustains its point of view. Negativity by its very nature is magnetic; it pulls everything in toward itself much like physical mass creates gravity. Second, negativity is looking for resolution and release. All forms of suffering seek to be free from the grip of sorrow. So

One does not need to seek out one’s demons in an endless pursuit of self-improvement. We simply need to face whatever arises with an honest, open, and inquiring mind and heart.

We meditate to realize the source of our being. And the quickest way to do that is to be still, with a curious mind and an open heart.

By contemplate I mean to identify exactly what fears are driving you. What assumptions are they based on? What are you running from? Rampant thinking is also your mind looking for peace—as if you could think enough or understand enough that your mind could be at peace. But the mind never thinks its way to a lasting peace. In fact, in the mind’s rus

Sacred inquiry is using the power of focused attention and curiosity in order to spark greater insight and experiential understanding. It is a way of using the mind in order to go beyond the mind.

As you know, each opening up of a new vista of our conscious being can bring up experiences of ever-deepening freedom and revelation, as well as experiences of fear and trepidation. All revelation opens new dimensions of the unconscious—dimensions of experience that themselves are seeking to be liberated from isolated separation and welcomed into t

To sink all the way down into the unknown within you is the way to awaken the greatest leaps of insight and clarity.