To know that love is a high value and aspiration to you helps gather and orient your energy and attention toward that aspiration. To further define what love is, is not only unnecessary but counterproductive—because you are not looking for a better definition of love but a deeper existential realization of love. Hold the question, What is love? in

As this is happening, you will experience not only the chaos of repressed material arising but also your resistance to it, which originally caused it to become trapped in your system in the first place. So resistance is also part of what is arising, and needs to be let go of.

The way to see through specialness starts by acknowledging it as it arises. See it as false as it arises—simply an ego-minded identity. Don’t resist it, and don’t engage it. Just see it until you see through. It is nothing more than a thought arising, just a single thought—no substance to it at all. Just be the prior ground from which it arises. Wh

While each person will have their own personal spiritual motivations (at least for a while), the ultimate spiritual impulse belongs to the totality of life. The spiritual impulse is life’s, or the totality’s, drive to become fully self-aware. Life is seeking to know itself ever more fully, to experience itself more fully, to become self-aware. So t

In truth we are the All, as is everyone and everything else. There is simply nothing else to be. The All is not here to be understood as a noun; it is a process, and not even that. It is the process of existence and nonexistence as well. It cannot be known in the conventional sense, because all that is known is an idea, an object within consciousne

Second, negativity is looking for resolution and release. All forms of suffering seek to be free from the grip of sorrow. Sometimes the ways suffering seeks release only create more sorrow, as when one succumbs to blame, shame, victimhood, control, guilt, etc. But when suffering seeks its release through compassion, love, and wisdom, the doors to r

In sacred inquiry the focus and direction of our attention is itself the avenue through which greater understanding and freedom are revealed.

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.

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