Objective knowledge values known relationships; self-knowledge values felt relationships.

A person’s voice is like an MRI that reveals immediately how much of her body is available to the breath—and so, too, how much of her being is available to the Present. When the body is liberated from its divisions, it becomes a fluid medium through the entirety of which the breath travels like a wave. Like a living graph, the voice reveals the pro

If we are looking for a framework within which to contain the reality we belong to, we eventually have to face the fact that there is a dimension missing from our Chosen Four of space and time. The missing dimension is the one in which everything is in contact with everything else at all times. It is the dimension of unity that coexists with the di

Objective knowledge is a self-centered understanding of the world; self-knowledge is world-centered understanding of the self. • Objective knowledge is fact based; self-knowledge is experiential. • We acquire objective knowledge; we surrender to self-knowledge. • Objective knowledge grows by accumulation; self-knowledge grows by shedding.

Dr. Jonas Salk—who by discovering the polio vaccine saved thousands of children’s lives and never sought to profit financially from it—once remarked, “What people think of as a moment of discovery is really the discovery of a question.” When I felt stuck as a teenager in the structures of thought and perception of our culture, it wasn’t for a lack

Your wholeness is felt, then, by feeling the wholeness of the Present.

The study revealed two striking results. First, traders with greater sensitivity to the inner life of their bodies had made significantly more money in the previous year. Second, the more years a trader had been working, the greater his interoception, as though the trading floor were selecting for that trait. Coates’s research demonstrates that wha

Objective knowledge is disembodied knowledge. It stands apart from the Present.

The funny thing about the nucleus basalis is that it is ‘switched on’ all day every day until the age of ten or eleven, at which point it pretty much turns off. And then you are no longer a sponge for new information or experience. Past that age the nucleus basalis will switch on only “when one of three conditions occur: a novel situation, a shock,