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

When you meet the fear of the ephemeral nature of existence, you are also meeting with the uncontrollability of life. You cannot control the transient nature of existence, so don’t try to meet fear from the “me” because then you only have more fear. Meet fear from love, because love can acknowledge transience as well as the fact that you cannot con

didn’t really want an answer in any conventional sense—I wanted an experience of being that would bring clarity to these big questions.

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

Each changing life situation is fluid and dynamic and therefore requires a fluid and dynamic quality of insight and understanding. In the deeper domain of spiritual insight, it is not any particular insight that is ultimately liberating; it is being at one with the dynamic flow of consciousness, life, and the moment that brings the greatest freedom

Sacred inquiry, in the context of spirituality, is something quite specific and is as much an art as a science. It is using inquiry as a tool to reveal and ultimately transcend our preconceived ideas and opinions so that our consciousness more accurately reflects truth and reality—every question we have arises from within a context of preconceived

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

Whatever the core story is, it is the story (the conclusion) that colors all of our other stories. And like all stories, it covers up the void at the core of the ego structure, the void being our point of connection with the infinite. The ego sees this void as threatening because it provides the way out of the ego structure, which is terrifying to

It is often the case that when beginning to open to the perspective of “only awareness,” old toxic emotions and thoughts will arise, sometimes vehemently, as the mind and body seek to release old, painful, and dysfunctional aspects of the emotional pain body.

As you say, the ego cannot make awakening or redeeming love happen, but you have never really been that small, limiting idea called ego. Relax into your being—that is the fundamental practice. Who are you beyond being worthy or unworthy? Let all self-image transform into loving presence.