As for knowing with certainty what category a given want or desire falls into—certainty is the ego-mind’s game. As the saying goes, “There is nothing certain in this world other than death and taxes.” Let go of the mind’s looking for certainty (because it’s just another way that the ego seeks to gain advantage) and you will become far more

Experiencing unity is a bit like getting a joke. The “getting” of a joke is what causes the laughter. In a sense, the getting is the laughter. But we don’t laugh because we have analyzed the joke and come to understand it—we laugh because the joke exposes something about ourselves. It removes the seriousness of the boundaries that we believe in and

A body is no problem. It is only the way that the ego mind identifies “exclusively” with a particular body that is problematic.

You put the belief aside, or see through it, so that you can experience what is deeper than belief. For instance, What are you if you do not refer to a single thought, feeling, or memory to tell you who you are? Your mind does not know. So instead, become aware of what is not a thought, not a feeling, not a memory. Just be aware. There is then just

Within the heart of illusion is often a kernel of truth, something that you are resisting seeing, something that may be painful to acknowledge but nonetheless has the power to free you from the very darkness from which it came.

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

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 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

One of the main reasons for some form of wise meditative method is so that you do not become distracted by the almost infinite world of phenomena that may arise during meditation. Simply leave the phenomena alone without following or trying to suppress them. That is the discipline of meditation and what gives meditation its power.