People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the read more

People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. read more

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -Hans Margolius.

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.

Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.

Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkein.

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkein.

Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from read more

Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always. -Willa Cather.