Meditations

Consciousness collapses possibility into actuality. The observer creates the observed. You are the universe observing itself.

Danish theoretical physicist Niels Bohr's personal diary, examined after his death, contains this entry about his meeting with Anandamayi Ma:

Met an Indian holy woman today. She asked me to explain quantum superposition. I did the observer effect, wave-particle duality, and the measurement problem.
When I finished, she smiled and said, "So, your science has finally discovered what we've known for 5,000 years. Consciousness collapses possibility into actuality. The observer creates the observed. You are the universe observing itself."

the greatest form of arrogance is often camouflaged as the greatest form of humility

Shaul vs Moshe, kingship

you can be taken out of a situation. but that does not necessarily mean that the situation was taken out of you.

Mitzrayim, stages of redemption

I want to feel good ≠ I want to heal

“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees.

And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever.

And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so

material solutions can't fix spiritual problems

you are not being tested

you are being transformed

Transform “to blame” into “to elevate”

the space between stimulus and response