Human beings do not know that they live a life of illusion and distortion. They do not know that they are programmed to live a life of artificiality and minimum growth. Social rules force people to repeat a similar distorted life cycle that is accepted by all as truth. …

Stay in your body. The silence is in your body. It’s not out there. It’s in your body. Stay in your body, and you’ll be surprised what happens. To really become immersed in the silence, you need to free your body — purify your body of the past. Only then…

The Old Poets of China Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. …

“Ignorant of the cause of life, ignorant of the purpose of life, ignorant of what lies beyond the mystery of death, yet possessing within himself the answer to it all, man is willing to sacrifice the beautiful, the true, and the good within and without upon the blood-stained altar of…

“the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood…

“Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you…

If you are one of those people who has the ability to make it down to the bottom of the ocean, the ability to swim the dark waters without fear, the astonishing ability to move through life’s worst crucibles and not die, then you also have the ability to bring…

I have never heard Jung or Hillman or Thomas Moore ever call themselves an elder. I don’t know, I guess it seems more of an appropriate term for traditional cultures. But we still need people, in a way, that can hand down stories from the past, and create some kind…

Once I realized that “deepak chopra” was a fictional character, I stopped taking him seriously. — Deepak Chopra * One of the great difficulties in our American life is that we don’t have places for entertaining ideas. And that is precisely what we’re supposed to do with an idea: entertain…