The Witness
George Gurdjieff, a Russian philosopher-mystic noted that if you set an alarm clock at night in order to get up early to get some work...
How Could There Be Wars?
There is too much hate and suffering in the world. Things are out of order, out of harmony and balance. Why are heaven and earth...
Surrendering To The Stream
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. [...] Siddhartha listened. He was now listening intently, completely absorbed, quite...
His Own Eulogy
Every now and then I guess we all think realistically about that day when we will be victimized with what is life's final common...
Change Your Mind Not Actions
My own experience is that if you can be silent, and if you can transcend mind and your consciousness can grow, it does not matter what...
Enjoy Your Work
There was a man who died and found himself in a beautiful place, surrounded by every conceivable comfort. A white-jacketed man came to...
Missing Drop In The Ocean
A friend of Mother Teresa from her early days came by hoping to have a quiet word with her and found, to her pleasant surprise, that...
Supreme Consideration Is Man
What I object to is the "craze" for machinery, not machinery as such. The craze is what they call labor-saving machinery. Men go on...
Search For Answers
Lead singer (of U2) Bono puts it this way: "There are two types of performers. There are performers that lay claim to their music as...
We Only Get What We Deserve
We must learn that nothing can happen to us, unless we make ourselves susceptible to it. I have just said, no disease can come to me...
Oprah Interviews Dalai Lama
O: What is our purpose here on earth? DL: To help one another. O: So the whole reason we are on this planet is to serve each other? DL:...
Only One of Them Is Real
One night long after my twenty-ninth birthday, I woke up in the early hours with a feeling of absolute dread. I had woken up with such...