Sacred Inquiry: Questions That Can Transform Your Life

I want to bring your attention to the fact that grief is itself a form of loving. Of course we grieve when we experience loss, but within the experience of grieving loss, there is love. After all, we grieve for what we love, and part of love is letting go. Even letting go can be an expression of your love. To let go is as much an expression of love

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

Stillness, in its most spontaneous and authentic sense, is a state of nonresistance. It is not stillness in the conventional sense of non-movement, but in the sense of non-interference by the ego-self.

The ego-mind is afraid of seeing God everywhere as everything. It makes no sense, but that’s what it does. It’s afraid of dying, but the ego-mind is just a convincing series of thoughts, images, and memories. Thoughts die all the time, from second to second. So you just face the fear until it’s gone, until it has lost its power. When you are no lon

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

We must be willing to suspend the compulsive drive of the ego for quick and convenient answers to our deepest questions and be willing to live in the creative tension between the known and the unknown.

We are each an aperture through which the world knows and experiences itself. Each person embodies the infinite nature of life and consciousness within the finite form of their particular human life. Our questions are life’s questions, and our spiritual instinct toward connection and freedom are life’s deeper instincts. You and I, and the entirety

1. Identify the exact thought and emotion that is occurring. As an example: judging thoughts and unworthy emotions. 2. Once the thought and emotion have been identified, remind yourself, This thought and this emotion are not me, nor are they other than me. It is simply the current emotional weather pattern that is occurring. 3. Notice that the current

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

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