Branch Is Not The Tree
"In our search for knowledge, in our acquisitive desires, we are losing life, we are blunting the feeling for beauty, the sensitivity...
Creative Solutions?
When one is confronted with a problem, there is a tendency to classify it, to find a similar problem in one's memory, either previously...
Come To Your Own Conclusions
"Always remember, whatsoever I say to you, you can take it in two ways. You can simply take it on my authority, 'Because I say so, it...
If ...
IF ... If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men...
The World Through Your Mind
The essence of all spiritual practice, in our human condition, is to learn to look beyond the sensory world, learn to abide beyond...
Paradox Of Our Times
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower view points; we...
The Message
I see a light, but no fire. Is this what my life is to be like? Better to head for the grave. A messenger comes, the...
Quotes
"A person who falls on earth, stumbling on a stone, will stand up by means of the same earth they fell on. You complain because you...
No One is Better Off
All human beings are at the same level. At the beginning of my apprenticeship with Don Juan Matus, he tried to make me see how common...
Tree Of Life
We are all familiar with the unflattering expression, "He can't see the forest for the trees". Similarly, it can be said that most of...
Freedom of Simplicity
Some seem to think my life dedicated to simplicity and service is austere and joyless, but these do not know the freedom of simplicity....
I Have Noticed
I have noticed that emptiness is just another word for spaciousness. I have noticed that attachments,...