enlightenment

The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.

I have travelled many places but still I find that perhaps the greatest journey is through one's own mind.

There is nothing we could add to that which has already been created....perfection.

The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.

In Hindu parlance he had 'realised the Self'; that is to say, he had realised by direct experience that nothing existed apart from an indivisible and universal consciousness which was experienced in its unmanifest form as beingness or awareness and in its manifest form as the appearance of the universe.

When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an echo.

Enlightenment is nothing but to experience your own mind. The experience of the self too is experiencing the intrinsic nature of the mind.

Enlightenment is to replace your own self with the self of the universe!

To greet the present is to part with the past and future.

Surrendering is not giving up--it is gaining strength.

To act upon the outer world and change it, you must be first be fine to act upon yourself.

Jealousy, and attempting to match others in life and stride, is self-abandonment.

Control is an illusion that you must give up.

Forgiveness is a skill gained by those willing to change.

Taking care of yourself will take care of more than yourself.

The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth.

The choices we make in life determine human identities. A person might choose to avoid or confront their deepest night terrors. A person can elect to live carefully or rashly. A person can embrace ignorance or incessantly work to acquire knowledge of the larger world filled with people, nature, and ideas. A person can live a placid life or boldly seek out vivid encounters is a world filled with anarchy, chaos, hazards, and incomparable beauty and slender. A person can hold onto attachments and fear death or live their life as a mere witness and perceive their personal death as part of the collective story and the culmination of a life will lived. A person can employ their time in a material world to enhance personal pleasures or to develop their innate skills and strive towards attaining self-realization. A person may perceive their existence as pitiful drudgery, or live a courageously, making a statement with their wounds and scars that life is a thrilling mystery filled with longing, love, and holiness.

The act of writing is a contemplative vision quest, a somber expedition of discovery that requires the writer to subordinate their ego in order to travel in soulful solitude towards a desirable personal haven of rejuvenating enlightenment. Writing for personal growth entails unconditionally surrendering oneself to the struggle of tearing their sense of self apart. It demands the solemn willpower to dissect and analyze the fissures of a self-absorbent soul one layer at a time.