Urban Mystic: Ancient Wisdom from a Modern-Day Seeker

If the mind itself were compared to an altar, then it serves us best to be very conscious of what beliefs, stories, and meaning we place on that altar.

Resistance to fear and suffering generates fear and suffering.

The power comes in being able to see this clearly and to interrupt it when we find ourselves in reaction to events, thinking it is the event that caused the discomfort. This is not necessarily easy because of all the hidden thoughts and perceptions people have that are based on the choice of fear, but it is extremely simple. Humans believe that cho

When I am clear of what was and accepting of what is, I can then create what will be.

When I experience my experience, I am allowing it to be what it is; I do this so that something new can show up that wouldn’t show up if I were in opposition to the experience itself.

I live by the practice of forgiveness, and I believe, in the end, it is really the only path.

see yourself as the perfect manifestation of what it is you have always been looking for.

Many people know and can recite what all of the books and teachers have been saying for thousand of years, but when it comes down to the simple application of those teachings, many still seem lost.

In many ways, you are a participant in the writing of this work; you are authoring these words as you interpret their meaning for yourself.