Reading Archive (Freedom in Life)
Everything Is Waiting For You
Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no...
The Oppressor and the Oppressed Must Both be Liberated
I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there is mercy and generosity. No one is born hating another person because of the...
The Committee of the Mind
There are many different ideas of “you” in your mind, each with its own agenda. Each of these “you's” is a...
Everything Human Is Natural
Man is as much attached to nature as a tree, and though he walks freely on two legs and is not rooted in the soil, he is by no means a...
The Same Self Is in All of Us
The same spark of divinity–this same Self–is enshrined in every creature. My real Self is not different from yours nor anyone...
A Key To End Sorrow
The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. The seeking for security invites insecurity. Have you ever...
Three Qualities Of Holiness
True happiness is uncaused. You are happy for no reason at all. And true happiness cannot be experienced. It is not within the...
I Have No Need For An Enemy
In passing my sentence, the judge said, “There’s no hope that you can ever be rehabilitated.” My sentence of 60-90...
What is Meditation?
"This awareness of the so called outward and the inward movements of life, is meditation. The simultaneous awareness of the total...
Seeing Is Not Thinking
The question is not what to do but how to see. Seeing is the most important thing—the act of seeing. I need to realize that it is...
Feel Free To Set A Better Example
At the core of legal theory is this idea that there are essentially two forms of liberty—positive and negative. Positive liberty is...
Inclining Toward Freedom, Even Through Imperfections
If we focus only on awakening, we miss most of the spiritual practice. I’m much more interested in how we practice with not...
Stepping into the Present Is a Gift
Most of us have heard of ego and let ego run our lives without realizing it. But few of us know how deeply our ego—the small, less...
Live Intentionally, In Freedom
Modern psychology commonly asserts that we cannot enter the unconscious fully aware. The mystic responds, "Oh, yes, you can! I have...
Spiritual Materialism
What first comes to mind to speak about is my own spiritual materialism. I find that as I'm reading or reflecting upon the teachings...