Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone.
Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.
As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.
You cannot have exterior development without interior development to hold it in place.
The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.
I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.
I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody – including me – has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.
Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.
The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and experience. The laboratory is your own mind, the experiment is meditation.
What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It’s not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.
A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behavior means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing -a spectrum that includes, at the very least, the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of spirit.
The understanding of “evolutionary consciousness” is perhaps the most important thing lacking in spiritual practices today. Evolution means growth and development. This means that there are aspects of reality that have not yet arisen in our consciousness. But they will arise if we grow.
I don’t talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.