“You think of yourselves as humans searching for a spiritual awakening, when in fact you are spiritual beings attempting to cope with a human awakening. Seeing yourselves from the perspective of the spirit within will help you to remember why you came here and what you came here to do.” — Neale Donald Walsch
Category Archives: Thought for Today
Two Obstacles to Enlightenment
“There are two obstacles to enlightenment: 1. Thinking you know. 2 Thinking you don’t know.” —Gautama Buddha
Your purpose
“You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment. “ —Morihei Ueshiba
Being who you really are
“Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of happiness without needing nice things to happen on the outside. Rather, you find happiness by being who you really are. This isn’t mystical. Young children are happy being who theyContinue reading “Being who you really are”
How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?
“It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves. The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened.Continue reading “How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?”
An opportunity to correct our vision
Have you heard people calling 2020 a “lost” year or “the year that wasn’t?” Do you believe that? We had high hopes for this year didn’t we? Perhaps higher than normal. After all this is 2020 the year of clear vision. And that is exactly what we are getting. Not in the way we expected,Continue reading “An opportunity to correct our vision”
You can never go back
“Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger holdContinue reading “You can never go back”
Awakening to the divinity within
“The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.” – Hazrat Inayat Khan
Listen to your own truth
“The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.” – Ram Dass
Gratitude for the present moment
“It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.” – Eckhart Tolle
