Look at the lives of those who are in possession of that to which you seek. The chances are they, too, are still looking. For your freedom comes from liberating ownership. We must know ourselves before we are known; work from that which we are rather than that which we are not.

Identifying with thought may be preventing you from touching bliss. To discover who you really are exercise the discipline to sit watching the breath. You don't have to open your mind. You don't have to open your heart. Breathe and focus. When identity collapses, freedom arises.

Our mental activity is an illusion of the reality we are attempting to embody. This activity is suggestive of our own personal mastery with regards to the management of our external and internal environments. The study of how, why & when we abandon ourselves is our primary task.

We put so much effort into achieving optimal health that we completely overlook such tension may be keeping us from what we truly need: The medicine of presence. The body has the unique capacity to manage itself. Relaxation and trust are how we become the body's best friend. 🙏🏻

We put so much effort into achieving optimal health that we completely overlook such tension may be keeping us from what we truly need: The medicine of presence. The body has the unique capacity to manage itself. Relaxation and trust are how we become the body's best friend. 🙏🏻

You will continue to encounter opposition as long as you identify with the stories the mind creates, keeping you separate from the silence of the heart. For beyond thought and emotion lies the presence of all that is, has been, and will forever be. Settle down. You are so loved.

Engaging with the senses is a step towards freedom, but these, too, become a prison as we remain distanced from that which animates. So breathe. Become increasingly more comfortable with the fear generated by the thought of letting go and move closer to the vitality that heals.

The prefrontal cortex is the most developed part of the brain. It learns from the observation of more primitive parts. As we evolve, these roles flip. If our cognitive realities are a simulation, we decide what direction the narrative takes with courage, discipline, and intent.

To gauge any kind of distance, there must be more than one point. For the comprehension of time, both a then and a now. Such acts of measurement remove us from fullness. Are you endlessly following your conditioning in an effort to locate that which the breath may only deliver?

Dopamine isn't realised when you get what you expect, but its absence is felt when you don't. If it comes, let it come. If it goes, let it go. What remains? Our neural networks constantly change. Bring attention back to the breath for a fullness beyond what can be expressed. 🪽

If we all desire security—knowns—but nothing within reach seems to offer this, we can turn to the only thing we do know: ourselves. This is "surrender." Beyond perception, beyond identity, lies a constant—that upon which the senses fall. Rest here and you will never be without.

Don't be fooled by the promise of "unlimited abundance," however that is supposed to work. It's not the solution. Nothing by way of distinction is. Material abundance will deliver material abundance, at best. True abundance is spiritual; it comes from you. It comes from within.

We are a process of becoming. Alive, free, known. To stifle this quality with past deeds and future desires cloaks the very security we are trying to find. The shield of ego prevents our tender selves from being seen, but it is through exposing vulnerabilities we find our power.

Suffocating the expansion of the emergent self with input from the senses limits access to higher realms. You want to fly, but keep perceiving walls. Subscribe to the senses to calm the mind. Then, remove the bricks one-by-one, each breath being a tool. Slowly, then all at once.

Suffocating the expansion of the emergent self with input from the senses limits access to higher realms. You want to fly, but keep perceiving walls. Subscribe to the senses to calm the mind. Then, remove the bricks one-by-one, each breath being a tool. Slowly, then all at once.

Often regulated by degrees of perception, the "fire" in us signifies perpetual hunger for the apparent unavailability of "food." The external world is set up to ensure absence is part of our inherent reality. As such, we may believe we are starving even though food is plentiful.

The mind is a fertile place. It does not care for what it is fed, for it will deliver upon whatever is believed. Only our bodies know the score. Work towards an intention & there is no other option than for it to become reality. This is as inflexible a law of nature as gravity.

To make progress in any field of knowledge one must be prepared to go out on a limb, stretch the leading edge. Refusing to face discomfort is to go no further than what we know. New thinking comes from exercising courage; curiously exploring rather than taking ideas personally.

It has long been known that the heart shares similar neuronal structures to the brain but its neurons far more embodied. As we think with the heart, so we are. Calm, open, faithful, receptive, complete. Read your days through the silence of the heart but don't forget your head.

According to Sanskrit wisdom, until we transcend our identity with the self, we'll continue being reborn into a life of suffering. There is no getting away from this. Understanding why through commitment to self-inquiry is, perhaps, the greatest use of our time on Planet Earth.