Sublime

As we become less identified with any single aspect of the separate self against another, we’re freer to know which among them all is most appropriate for a given situation. It’s as if we can be anyone to anyone. Resting behind all roles, we can also be, as it were, no one to no one—that is, we can create a space where whoever we’re with has the be

Imagine that all existence, all forms of life are nothing but condensed energy. While there is good scientific evidence for this, I am not concerned here with metaphysical speculation as much as I am with using the term energy to evoke the latent ability within us all to understand unity. Like (and as) love, unity is the most intimate and connected

Consciousness has no idea of “I,” of ego. It has no idea of one’s separation from existence. It does not know any barrier. It knows no boundaries—it is one with existence, it is in a deep at-onement. There is no conflict between the individual and the whole. One is simply flowing into the whole, and the whole is flowing into one. It is like breathi

the unreality of our self-centered thoughts. Then we can remain dispassionate and fundamentally unaffected by them.

It may not be obvious for quite a while but any state of samādhi is to some degree a state of letting go, of reduced craving. And the deeper the samādhi, the deeper and more comprehensive the letting go that it involves.

All spiritual and psychological paths are attempts to answer the question, “Who am I?” Different paths focus on different levels of consciousness, different parts of the totality of our experience of being human. Psychological work will help us integrate the inner child and strengthen the positive ego. Some spiritual work will help us develop our i