The Today! Archive
[There is a] fundamental change
of world view
that is occurring in science
and in society,
the unfolding of a new vision
of reality…
— Fritjof Capra,
Uncommon Wisdom:
Conversations With
Remarkable People
Friday, 04.18.2025
Thursday, 04.17.2025
The universe only pretends
to be made of matter.
Secretly it is made of Love.
— Daniel Pinchbeck
Wednesday, 04.16.2025
The region of Truth
is not to be investigated
as a thing external to us…
It is within us.
— Plotinus
Tuesday, 04.15.2025
God is not somewhere else,
hidden from us.
God is right here,
hidden from us.
— Daniel C Matt,
God & the Big Bang:
Discovering Harmony Between
Science & Spirituality
see also:
Three Pillars of Conscious
Spirit-based Living
Monday, 04.14.2025
The greatest reverence
we can give to God
is in not ascribing to ourselves
a single quality that is not
the nature of God.
— James A Neal,
Man the Divine Fullness
Sunday, 04.13.2025
There are many kinds
of barriers…
Joy breaks through all barriers.
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
see also: Freedom from Old Baggage
Saturday, 04.12.2025
...in [Divine] Science,
it can never be said
that one has a mind
of one’s own,
distinct from God,
the all Mind.
— Mary Baker Eddy,
Science & Health
With Key to the Scriptures
Friday, 04.11.2025
The fundamental
characteristic of consciousness
is its wholeness,
its completeness,
its entirety!
— Betty Albee,
author of Mind is the Athlete
Thursday, 04.10.2025
One’s life becomes the prayer,
the prayer that sings
the Glory of God...
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Wednesday, 04.09.2025
There are as many
paths to God
as there are human breaths.
— attributed to Muhammad
Tuesday, 04.08.2025
Consciousness,
being all the is there is,
leaves nothing apart from itself
to dispute
its power and authority.
It is, therefore,
all the power there is.
— Herbert W Eustace
Monday, 04.07.2025
Sunday, 04.06.2025
We should never try
to convince another of truth,
because no appeal
to the human intellect
can convey truth.
— Bicknell Young,
God is Individual Consciousness
Saturday, 04.05.2025
Do not imagine there is God
and thoughts about God
and thinkers of thoughts
about God.
There is only God—
and knowledge,
knower,
and known
are one in God.
There is nothing separate
from God...
— Moses Cordovero
Friday, 04.04.2025
The teacher, if indeed wise,
does not bid you enter the house
of the teacher’s wisdom,
but rather leads you to the threshold
of your own mind.
— Kahlil Gibran
Thursday, 04.03.2025
You are good, you are happy,
and you are free.
Prove it!
— Fortune Cookie
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It’s not enough to repeat
spiritual truths…
We must live them.
We must prove they are true
through our actions.
God made us intelligent,
competent, wise, able,
and capable.
Go ahead and prove it today!
You can,
because it’s who you are.
— Evan Mehlenbacher,
SpiritView
posted Wednesday, 04.02.2025
The Self is always the Self;
it is never non-Self;
but somehow
it became identified
with the body
and with the whole objective
field of life.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
posted Tuesday, 04.01.2025
Divine Mind, being All,
can only unfold
Itself as Itself to Itself.
This activity
constitutes my Self.
All that is ever happening
is Truth unfolding
Its infinite Self.
— James A Neal,
Man the Divine Fullness
posted Monday, 03.31.2025
…There is nothing but God—
God appearing
as flowers,
God appearing
as the food on our table,
God appearing
as the clothing on our backs,
God appearing
as harmonious relationships,
God appearing
as the perfect functioning
of our minds and bodies...
There is no higher goal
attainable on earth
than an inner communication
with this Presence
that never leaves us
nor forsakes us.
— Joel Goldsmith,
The Thunder of Silence
posted Sunday, 03.30.2025
With our stillness
and our silence,
we listen for the Voice
that speaks every particle
of creation into being.
— The Desert Mothers
posted Saturday, 03.29.2025
For more:
The Sound of Silence
and Stillness
For the mind in harmony with the Tao,
all selfishness disappears.
With not even a trace of self-doubt,
you can trust the universe completely.
— Seng-Ts’an
posted Friday, 03.28.2025
See also:
Non-Duality — Not Two
The name 'I'
or the thought 'I AM'
is like a lighthouse
to a sailor on a stormy night.
It indicates the place of peace.
the place of safety.³⁸
— Rupert Spira
posted Thursday, 03.27.2025
See also:
Return to the Self
We have declared
an omnipresent God long enough—
the time is here for us to prove
this Omnipresence.
Tennyson wrote:
'Closer is God than breathing,
and nearer than hands and feet.'
Can you conceive of God
being any closer than the discovery
that divine Mind is your own Consciousness?
[italics in the original]
— Vivian May Williams,
There Is Nothing But God
posted Wednesday, 03.26.2025
See also:
Who Are You Being?
Are you afraid?
There is nothing
[the supposed small self]
can do about it.
But Love—the discernment
that all is well—
can do the same thing
to what is not well
that light does to darkness.
— Margaret Laird,
We Are the World We Walk Through
posted Tuesday, 03.25.2025
Let us dare
to make the old new
and to make the new holy.
— Abraham Isaac Kook
posted Monday, 03.24.2025
In pure prayer
there is no element
of fear, fluctuation, or doubt.⁷
— Violet Ker Seymer
posted Sunday, 03.23.2025
from Pure Prayer in Christian Science
You can only lose
something that you have,
but you cannot lose something
that you are.
—Eckhart Tolle,
Oneness with All Life:
Inspirational Selections
from A New Earth
posted Saturday, 03.22.2025
Thoughts which reveal Mind
are Mind self-revealed.
Thoughts which appear to be
our own thoughts
are literally the very presence
and power of God
because they are God.
— Bicknell Young
posted Friday, 03.21.2025
Prayer is not a movement
from ourself towards God.
It is a divesting of ourself
of all the qualities
we seem to have acquired
from experience—
and the subsequent revelation
of our being as God’s infinite being.⁸
— Rupert Spira,
The Heart of Prayer
posted Thursday, 03.20.2025
Since all material existence
is animated by the divine,
even the most mundane activity
can serve as an opportunity
to discover God.
— Daniel C Matt,
The Essential Kabbalah
posted Wednesday, 03.19.2025
Photo by Brigitta Schneiter
posted Tuesday, 03.18.2025
see also
Pure Prayer in Metaphysical Science
and Return to the Self
The search for total knowledge
starts from the Self
and finds fulfillment
in coming back to the Self…
Everything is the expression
of the Self…
of my own Self.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
posted Monday, 03.17.2025
Reflection,
total Self-recognition,
is the key to everything.
— Richard Booker
posted Sunday, 03.16.2025
for more, go to
Who Are You Being?
The more you are aware of Allness,
the more Allness
can pour into your life…
— David Aaron,
Seeing God
posted Saturday, 03.15.2025
This is the secret of the unity of God:
no matter where I take hold of a shred of it,
I hold the whole of it.¹³
— Martin Buber
from Have We Outgrown God?
posted Friday, 03.14.2025
There is one Truth...
the truth I AM.
The truth does not come
out of any faith, organization,
teacher, philosophy,
or holy book...
The Truth
we are concerned with
is the Truth of the
single Selfhood...
— William Samuel
posted Thursday, 03.13.2025
The wise know that
God fills all space,
and that they can
find God in and as
every space and thing.
Know this:
One who sees God in any part
becomes one with the Whole,
for God is All in all.
— Baal Shem Tov
posted Wednesday, 03.12.2025
from writings in progress
In the vicinity of coherence
hostile tendencies
are eliminated.
— Yoga Sutras 2:35,
Tat-sannidhau vaira-tyagah
posted Tuesday, 03.11.2025
There's just one Reality.
It's God, infinite Spirit.
What we call matter
is just a short-sighted view of Spirit.¹
Matter is a way of seeing,
not something that is seen.²
The objects in our physical universe…
do not exist in their own reality.
They exist only
as extensions of Divine energy…³
— ¹ Evan Mehlenbacher
— ² Rupert Spira
— ³ Menachem Mendel Schneerson
posted Monday, 03.10.2025
from writings in progress
Do today’s work superbly well.
Plan for the future
but don’t worry about it.
— the principle of Thomas Carlyle’s life
posted Sunday, 03.09.2025
from writings in progress
In a rush?
The world is in control of you.
Slow down!
And take control of your world.
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Hurry is a manifestation of fear;
one who fears not has plenty of time.
— Wallace Wattles,
The Science of Being Great
Nature does not hurry,
yet everything is accomplished.
— Lao Tzu
posted Saturday, 03.08.2025
from writings in progress
You were born from divine attributes
in the first place.
Now return
to those attributes.
— Rumi
posted Friday, 03.07.2025
added today to Who Are You Being
Life will give you
whatever experience is most helpful
for the evolution of your consciousness.
— Eckhart Tolle
posted Thursday, 03.06.2025
from writings in progress
The essential quality of the universe
is its subtlety, its intangibility.
This quality is conveyed
in the word Spirit,
whose root meaning is “wind or breath.”
That which is truly alive
is the energy of Spirit
and this is never born and never dies.
— David Bohm
posted Wednesday, 03.05.2025
from writings in progress
There is no way to Peace.
Peace is the Way.
— A J Muste
on a calendar in Northern Ireland
posted Tuesday, 03.04.2025
from writings in progress
The Eternal is One
teaches a truth far more profound
than that there is
only one eternal Creator.
— Gerald L Schroeder,
The Hidden Face of God:
Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth
posted Monday, 03.03.2025
from writings in progress
We who are forging ahead
must stand by Principle:
God is Spirit.
God is all.
And in God we have divine freedom.
— Charles Fillmore
posted Sunday, 03.02.2025
from
Three Pillars of Conscious Spirit-based Living
posted Saturday, 03.01.2025
from Beauty and Spiritual Qualities
There is a voice
that does not use words.
Listen.
— Rumi
posted Friday, 02.28.2025
from The Sound of Silence
Yes, karma envelopes us
and all that exists.
But there's an escape hatch
through teshuvah [return to the Self],
through Torah
and through good deeds.
— Tzvi Freeman
posted Thursday, 02.27.2025
from writings in progress
As long as we regard God
as just another object of perception,
we’re never going to be able to find God.
And why?
Because God is the ultimate Subject,
and we are the objects of God’s perception!³⁹
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
posted Wednesday, 02.26.2025
from Have We Outgrown God?
The time is at hand
when every conceivable opinion
about God and God's image
must give way to a complete
and perfect understanding
of the Allness of the One.³⁸
— Vivian May Williams
posted Tuesday, 02.25.2025
from Have We Outgrown God?
posted Monday, 02.24.2025
from Spiritual Qualities
Evil does not descend from above.
The transmission from above
is pure and coherent.
Evil is distortion and noise,
an artifact of our reception.
If we would only adjust
our reception devices,—
our attitude and our ability to receive—
the signal would become clear.
This is all of life—adjusting reception.²
When life is full of noise,
adjust your reception!³
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
translation by Tzvi Freeman
...The only enemy we ever have
is an erroneous sense of things.⁴⁴
— Bicknell Young
The striving to free oneself
from this delusion
is the one issue of true religion.⁴⁶
— Albert Einstein
posted Sunday, 02.23.2025
from Three Pillars of Conscious Spirit-based Living
posted Saturday, 02.22.2025
from Spiritual Qualities
The essence of all being is [God as] Eloheynu.
That's the one who manifests as our many.
Each of us is an individualized expression
of one being, of one presence…
Behind the masks we wear…
of our history, our tradition, our culture,
the one who is looking at you through my eyes,
and the one who is looking at me through your eyes—
it's the same one!
We share a single presence, a single life.
We are expressions of a single being.
— Ted Falcon
posted Friday, 02.21.2025
from Echoes of Who Is My Other?
Establish yourself firmly
in the awareness of 'I AM.'
This is the beginning, and
also the end of all endeavour.²
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
posted Thursday, 02.20.2025
from Source, Course, and Goal
posted Wednesday, 02.19.2025
from Source, Course, and Goal
[There is an important distinction]
between saying
that ‘everything has consciousness’
and saying that ‘everything is Consciousness.’³
— Dr. Tony Nader
The little word is
may properly be called
the most powerful word
in the English language.
When a fact or truth
is established as is,
it is in its final form.
It is impossible to go beyond that.
When you have arrived
at the is of anything,
you have arrived at the truth of it,
and there is nothing further to be attained.
Knowing this, you declare
with absolute assurance
that that which is,
is therefore all that is.
There is nothing,
and can be nothing
outside of that which is.
Anything outside of is
becomes is not.
Therefore that which is,
is all there is.
— Herbert W Eustace
posted Tuesday, 02.18.2025
from Isness 1
Of the various names for God,
one of the most beautiful
is the Hebrew word zot,
which means means this.
God is this.
— Daniel C Matt
posted Monday, 02.17.2025
from writings in progress
posted Sunday, 02.16.2025
from Divine Names and Nature
posted Saturday, 02.15.2025
from Spiritual Qualities
Photo by Mark Tucker, Danby, New York
Photo by Jovan Vasiljevic
posted Friday, 02.14.2025
from Spiritual Qualities
The Light of the Creator
becomes [tangible] in our lives
to the degree
that we have certainty of its presence.⁸
— Michael Berg
Secrets of the Zohar: Stories and Meditations to Awaken the Heart
Posted Thursday, 02.13.2025
from In One Moment
The name 'I' or the thought 'I AM'
is like a lighthouse
to a sailor on a stormy night.
It indicates the place of peace,
the place of safety.
— Rupert Spira
Posted Wednesday, 02.12.2025
from Echoes at Return to the Self
Every evil results
from attachment
to matter and non-being.
— Ibn Sina
Risala fi al-‘Ishq, The Treatise on Love
Posted Tuesday, 02.11.2025
from writings in progress
[Spiritual] Science is absolute;
it is neither behind the point of perfection
nor advancing towards it;
it is at this point
and must be practised therefrom.
— Mary Baker Eddy,
Miscellany
Perfection is open to everyone,
because it has always been
at the basis of every life on earth.
It is only a question of awakening it...
awakening our Intelligence, our memory,
our consciousness to realize
that we have that perfection within us.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
in part from Guru Purnima Celebration 1999
All things exist in Divinity
under their most pure
and most perfect form.
— Moses Cordovero
Kabbalah, 16th Century
Every time you declare
you are perfect in God,
there goes through the body
a health-giving power.
When you realize
this truth of Truths
that you are now
—not will be—
perfect in God,
wonderful changes
will come to pass.
— Lucretia Jane Nusbaum
circa late 1800s to early 1900s
Posted Monday, 02.10.2025
from writings in progress
There is nothing between
the Science of Being
and Being itself:
no dogma,
no ritual,
no doctrine,
no person,
no place,
no thing.
The Science of Being
is fresh,
original,
vivid,
and pure;
it is here,
it is now,
it is all.
— Ann C Stewart
Posted Sunday, 02.09.2025
from Echoes of The New Golden Rule
Photo by Canva.com
Posted Saturday, 02.08.2025
from Non-duality—Not Two
Note the words “in Divinity.”
Reality is always—and only—
divinely perfect.
To have “on earth as it is in heaven,”
we must spiritually embrace
the divinity of our humanity.
Be-hold divinity’s perfection.
This is why metaphysicians say,
“Pay attention to your seeing!”
Photo by Paolo Durandetto on pexels.com
Photo by Casey Horner
Posted Thursday, 02.06.2025
for the complete quotation, go to Infinity.
Photo by John Towner
Posted Wednesday, 02.05.2025
from Spiritual Vision
Photo by Artem Sapegin
Spirit and its formations
are the only realities of Being.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
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All suffering is due to ignorance
of a way to unfold
the divine glory
which is present within oneself.³
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The Science of Being and Art of Living
Infinite good, appearing infinitely,
is the remedy for every ill.⁴
— Richard Booker
The Magic of Knowing
posted Monday, 02.03.2025
from 3 Pillars of Conscious Spiritual Living
and Spiritual Qualities
Beyond right action
and wrong action,
there is a field.
I will meet you there.
— Rumi
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That ‘field beyond’—that ‘there’—
that so-called state of consciousness
where positive and negative
are reconciled
is as much here as it is there.
Indeed, that field is so much here,
is so immanent,
that it is your very own consciousness.
It is not something to be
learned about or reached,
but something to be acknowledged
as the fact of yourself.¹
— Ann Johnstone,
Simple Stories of Enlightenment
This Immanent ‘Field Beyond’: Consciousness Self-Acknowledged
The seat of the Unified Field of Natural Law
is within you, within me,
and within all of existence, everywhere.
It’s the same one field of unity
that administers the infinite diversity
of the universe with perfect order.
This field of Total Natural Law,
which is described today
in the language of science,
is the same field of Divine Intelligence
that has been the eternal song
of every religion throughout the ages.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
Press Conference 4 December 2002
posted Sunday, 02.02.2025
from Qualities of the Unified Field
and writings in progress
The great Law of Being
is that we reap what we sow;
that according to the thoughts
we entertain
and the things we believe,
so will our experience be.
This is a cosmic law.
It is never broken.
It is absolutely impersonal
and inflexible
and to obey this law
is the way into heaven
or perfect harmony.
— Emmet Fox,
Make Your Life Worthwhile
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Karma is influenced by Karma.
Prayer is also Karma.
And the strength of prayer
is much greater than any other Karma.
Anything could be influenced by prayer,
if done rightly.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
Transcendental Meditation
with Questions and Answers
Hold thought steadfastly
to the enduring, the good, and the true,
and you will bring these
into your experience proportionably
to their occupancy of your thoughts.⁵
— Mary Baker Eddy,
Science and Health
With Key to the Scriptures
posted Saturday, 02.01.2025
from Pure Prayer in Metaphysical Science
and writings in progress
Practical spirituality requires
that we acknowledge what really is,
including who we really are.
— Expressions of Joy
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Self-knowledge is all there is or can be…
there is only one thing going on.
— Betty Albee,
Mind Is the Athlete:
An Exploration of Consciousness and Cause
The divine presence
is all that is present.
My experience of it only occurs
when I include it in who I am.¹⁸
— Betty Albee
posted Friday, 01.31.2025
from Isness / Embrace the Divinity of Your Humanity / and writings in progress
The world
is one family-
my family.
— Maha Upanishad
VI. 71-73
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The world is my family.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
— Mindy Jostyn
posted Thursday, 01.30.2025
from Who Is My Other
The greatest service
one can render humanity
is to recognize one's true nature.
— Rupert Spira
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I AM THAT I AM
— Exodus 3:14
If you can think I AM,
you can be the expression of I AM.¹
— Kenneth B Adams
posted Wednesday, 01.29.2025
from Spiritual Qualities and
inspired by
the divine quality of Amness
There is no satisfactory way
to explain being;
it can only be experienced.
’I AM THAT I AM’
is not really a statement of being;
it is the conscious base of being
that needs no explanation.¹
— Richard Booker
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I AM THAT
— Aham Brahmāsmi
Bṛihadāraṇyak • Upanishad 1.4.10
THOU ART THAT
— Tat Tvam Asi
Chandogya • Upanishad 6.8.7
ALL THIS IS THAT
— Sarvaṃ khalvidaṁ Brahm
Chandogya • Upanishad 3.14.1
THAT ALONE IS
— Pragyānaṁ Brahm
Aitareya • Upanishad 3.1.3
posted Tuesday, 01.28.2025
from
Consciousness and
Consciousness, Divine Mind
Order is Heaven’s first law.¹
— Alexander Pope
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Our existence is merely
an objectification of God’s existence.
— Ibn Arabi
God’s qualities, like divine order,
are ours to consciously display!
We can start with the simple things,
like loading the dishwasher
or organizing our desk.
Do we see them as rote drudgery?
Or are we consciously aware
that we’re expressing
divine orderliness?
posted Monday, 01.27.2025
from
Spiritual Qualities,
Qualities of the Unified Field and
Orderliness
How do I know God is here?
I know God is here because I am here.
We are inseparable, inseverable.⁴¹
posted Sunday, 01.26.2025
from Inseverability
a talk at Congregation Beth Shalom, Fairfield, IA
‘If your mind races, return to the place,’
return to where you were before thought.
Return to the site of Oneness.¹
— Sefer Yetzirah
posted Saturday, 01.25.2025
from Self-referral
Being is always be-ing.
— Margaret Laird
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God is a Verb!
The teaching that God is a verb
and that creation is an ongoing process
brings a new vitality to each moment
and opens up for us an infinity of possibilities.
By understanding the way the process works,
with God-ing and creation-ing
unfolding simultaneously,
we gain enormous insight
into the mystical architecture of the universe.
— David A Cooper
(emphasis added)
posted Friday, 01.24.2025
Time spent laughing
is time spent with the gods.¹
— Japanese Proverb
posted Thursday, 01.23.2025 from
the spiritual quality of Humor
Friendship is the expression
and celebration of
our shared being.¹
— Rupert Spira
posted Wednesday, 01.22.2025 from
Friendliness
We must interpret ourselves
as true consciousness
rather than as a corporeality being conscious.
It is most important
to maintain our thought
as the conscious identity of divine Mind.⁹
— Martha Wilcox
posted Tuesday, 01.21.2025 from
Who Are You Being?
‘Consciousness’ is a [non-religious]
scientific way
of referring to Totality,
One without a Second,
which from a religious point of view
we refer to as God.²
— Steve Sufian
posted Monday, 01.20.2025 from
Divine Names and Nature
Love is the Science,
the discernment—that is, Spirit—in which
there is no “you,” no “other,” no “there,” no “together;”
there is only I as Mind—
the conscious infinitude of existence.³
— Margaret Laird
posted Sunday, 01.19.2025 from
Who Is My Other?
The one who truly prays
is the one who
has seen the place of God.
This is what it means to be a…mystic.
Not only do these two activities and states
coincide at their highest states,
they also coincide every step of the way.⁶
— Desert Elder
posted Saturday, 01.18.2025 from
Pure Prayer in Early Christianity
Transcendence of the good-evil binary
by sages is discernible
in all major traditions.¹
— Muhammad Maroof Shah
posted Friday, 01.17.2025 from
Pure Prayer: An Overview
There is no Jewish silence
and Christian silence
and Buddhist silence.
Silence is the one thing
all human beings forever
have always shared.
It's the one thing in our own lives
that never changes.
It was the same when we were kids;
it's the same when we're growing;
it's the same when we're old.
There is a single silence
that we're sharing all the time. ⁵
— Ted Falcon
posted Thursday, 01.16.2025 from
Pure Prayer: An Overview
A mind that is touched
by the absolute falls silent.
With the mind silent,
all that remains is simply being,
God’s being — the ultimate reality
and the heart of prayer.⁶
— Rupert Spira
posted Wednesday, 01.15.2025 from
The Sound of Silence
Evil does not descend from above.
The transmission from above
is pure and coherent.
Evil is distortion and noise,
an artifact of our reception.
If we would only adjust
our reception devices,—
our attitude and our ability to receive—
the signal would become clear.
And that is all of life—
adjusting reception.⁶
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
posted Tuesday, 01.14.2025 from
Only Before Our Eyes
…God is the only existence…²
— Evan Finkelstein
posted Monday, 01.13.2025 from
Infinity
see also Infinity at Every Point
‘Back to the Self’
is the secret of success.³⁶
—Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
posted Sunday, 01.12.2025 from
Return To the Self
Going through to the absolute
is the way to handle every appearance of
evil or limitation.
— Richard Booker
posted Saturday, 01.11.2025 from
Non-dual Prayer in Metaphysical Science
Silence is not the absence of sound;
silence is the absence of the little self. ²⁵
— Rumi
posted Friday, 01.10.2025 from
The Science of Silence and
Non-dual Prayer in Sufi Science
Non-toxic cleaning
transcends what’s in the bottle.
posted Thursday, 01.09.2025 from
Non-toxic Cleaning
Accept the Truth
from whatever source it comes.⁵
— Old adage, cited by Maimonides
in his Introduction to Tractate Avos
posted Wednesday, 01.08.2025 from
Many Lamps,
Beyond Labels and
Non-dual Prayer: An Overview
Whatever holds human thought
in line with unselfed love,
receives directly the divine power.¹⁵
— Mary Baker Eddy
posted Tuesday, 01.07.2025
from
Non-dual Prayer in Christian Science
…Sitting quietly
is a way of giving attention
to what actually is.²
— Joan Tollifson
posted Monday, 01.06.2025
from
Quietude
What’s the matter?
Shouldn’t we ask instead,
‘What’s the Truth?’
posted Sunday, 01.05.2025
from
What’s the Matter?
Matter [is] the visibility of Spirit.⁴
– Richard Booker
posted Saturday, 01.04.2025
from
Begin With No-thing
Let no one ever come to you
without leaving happier.¹
— attributed to Mother Teresa
posted Friday, 01.03.2025
from Be Love
There is no rung of Being
on which we cannot find
the holiness of God
everywhere and at all times.³
— Martin Buber
posted Thursday, 01.02.2025
from Beyond Labels
Empty hands, total Mind
Nothing to carry or leave behind
Being in the Now and Here
Every moment is a New year
— Singaporean student from
Maharishi International University
posted Wednesday, 01.01.2025
In the sweetness of friendship
let there be laughter,
and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things
the heart finds its morning
and is refreshed.²
— Khalil Gibran
posted Tuesday, 12.31.2024 from
Friendliness
Prayer on the verbal level
has its effectiveness;
prayer on the mental level is more effective;
prayer from the transcendental area of life
has maximum effectiveness,
because on that level
thought has a frictionless flow—
it travels instantly throughout Nature…
[Transcendental prayer] is instantly heard
and instantly responded [to]…²
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
posted Monday, 12.30.2024 from
Non-dual Prayer in Vedic Science
Who is this aliveness I am?
Is it not the Holy Blessed One?¹
— Menachem Nachum
posted Sunday, 12.29.2024 from
Are We God’s ‘Boots On the Ground?’
Man’s inward reality
is identical with the Divine Reality…
While the other things in creation
manifest some Attribute or another,
man [and woman] assumes the unique position
of manifesting all the Names [Attributes of God].⁷
— Mukhtar H. Ali,
from the teaching of al-Qunawi
posted Saturday, 12.28.2024 from
Our Spiritual Identity
Let us never…put a mental separation
between our divinity—that is actuality—
and our humanity
because of the paralyzing results to us.¹
— Martha Wilcox
posted Friday, 12.27.2024 from
Embrace the Divinity of Your Humanity
Let all the earth
keep silence
before the Lord.⁴
— Habakkuk 2:20 JPS
Silence is Praise.³
— Psalm 65:2 Robert Alter Translation
posted Thursday, 12.26.2024 from
The Science of Silence
We pray with words
until the words are cut off
and we are left in a state of wonder.¹⁵
— St. Isaac the Syrian
The Prayer of Silence is actually spoken
by the Divine Voice within us.⁹
— Zohar Pt. 1, fol 169a
When the thinker is lost
in the eminence of [divine] Mind,
the healing takes place.¹¹
— attributed to Mary Baker Eddy
Merry Christmas and Happy 1st Night of Hanukkah
to everyone in our Expressions of Joy Family!
posted Wednesday, 12.25.2024 from
Non-dual Prayer in Early Christianity,
Non-dual Prayer in Torah Science, and
Non-dual Prayer in Christian Science
[The Zohar reveals that]
‘The Promised Land is within you.’
— Igal Harmelin
posted Tuesday, 12.24.2024 from
The Launching Pad for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Wait till you look within yourself
and see what is there, O seeker,
One leaf in that Garden
is worth more than all of Paradise!¹¹
— Rumi
posted Monday. 12.23.2024
Our Spiritual Identity
This is the time
for you to deeply compute
the impossibility
that there is anything
but Grace.¹
— Hafiz
posted Sunday, 12.22.2024 from
Present Tense
What's beautiful
about mystical study
and mystical exploration
is that it almost doesn't matter
which tradition you're in.
Each tradition expresses Truth
in a unique way,
but the underlying message
is really the same,
that God animates all of existence.¹
— Daniel C. Matt
posted 12.21.2024 from
Beyond Labels
With our stillness and our silence,
we listen for the Voice
that speaks every particle of creation
into being.¹
— Eucharistic Prayer D
posted Friday, 12.20.2024 from
Prayer From Our Desert Mothers
I know nothing of two worlds—
All I know is the One—
I seek only One,
I know only One,
I find only One,
And I sing of only One.⁶
— Rumi
posted Thursday, 12.19.2024 from
Divine Science Comes Into View
God is everything and more.
— Evan Finkelstein
posted 12.17.2024 from
Sunday School for Enlightened Children
Unfortunately, the word 'God'
has been associated
with the supernatural,
instead of the natural—
and with a supreme Being,
instead of all Being…³
— Margaret Laird
posted 12.16.2024 from
Many Lamps
Be still and know that I AM is God.²
— translation by Ted Falcon
posted 12.15.2024 from
The Science of Silence
Certainty is the power
that draws [your conscious awareness]
of Light into your life…
The Light of the Creator
becomes [tangible] in our lives
to the degree
that we have certainty of its presence.⁸
— Michael Berg
posted 12.14.2024 from
In One Moment
Love cannot be hid anymore than light,
and least of all
when it shines forth in action.¹
— John Wesley
posted 12.13.2024 from
Love In Action
We ourselves are the attributes
by which we describe God.²
— Ibn Arabi
posted 12.12.2024 from
Spiritual Qualities
What’s your primary experience
before thoughts, feelings, sensations,
perceptions have begun?
It’s just the experience of being;
just a simple, ordinary, intimate,
colorless, silent experience of being.
Our innermost experience is just being —
the awareness of being.²
— Rupert Spira
posted 12.09.2024 from
Self-referral
Have you ever thought how big you are?
How far you stretch?
How far is far?
— J Woodruff Smith
posted 12.07.2024 from
So Big
A person is like a ram’s horn;
the only sound you make
is that which is blown through [as] you.
Were there no one blowing into the horn,
there would be no sound at all.²
— The Hasidic Masters
posted 12.06.2024 from
Reflection
God IS the Now.
— Richard Booker
posted 12.05.2024 from
The New Golden Rule
The journey within
is the essence of what
the religion of Abraham is all about.
It points us to find the Promised Land
within ourselves.
It seeks to transmute the yearnings
for a return to a geographical place
into a yearning for a state of awareness—
for consciousness in its natural state—
free from any identification
with any human-made notions.
The Zohar seems to be saying here:
‘The Promised Land is within you.’
— Igal Harmelin
posted 12.04.2024 from
The Launching Pad for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
You are awareness.
Awareness is another name for you.
— Ramana Maharishi
posted 12.03.2024 from
Awareness
This is the secret of the unity of God:
no matter where I take hold of a shred of it,
I hold the whole of it.¹³
— Martin Buber
posted 12.02.2024 from
Have We Outgrown God?
There is no being but Being.⁴
— the Abrahamic traditions and Vedanta
posted 11.30.2024 from
In One Moment
When you feel a lack of understanding,
And your creativity declines,
Run to the hidden spring!
The higher waters will refresh you,
And you will blossom.
God’s blessing will return to you.
You will become like a gushing spring,
Like a river that does not cease.¹
— Abraham Isaac Kook
posted 11.29.2024 from
The Hidden Spring
See related essay: Return To the Self
I am the place where God shines through,
For God and I are one, not two…¹
— Author Unknown
posted 11.28.2024 from I Am the Place
‘When your mind races,
return to the place,’
return to where
you were before thought.
Return to the site
of Oneness.⁵
— Sefer Yetzirah
posted 11.27.2024 from Return to the Self
You are one with God in reality,
but if you wish to demonstrate this fact,
you must get equally as close to Him
in [your conscious awareness].
[Acknowledge:] ‘The pure spirit of God-power
within my consciousness causes me
to be aware of Its presence.’
God-power is impersonal,
but when you become aware of It,
It individualizes Itself and becomes you.³
— Vivian May Williams
posted 11.26.2024 from Conscious Identity of Being
[Mysticism is] the expression
of the innate tendency
of the human spirit
towards complete harmony
with the transcendental order;
Whatever be the [sacred tradition]
under which it is understood.³
— Evelyn Underhill
posted 11.24.2024 from Non-dual Prayer Overview
What is blasphemous
is to…set oneself up
as a being apart from God’s being.²
— Rupert Spira
posted 11.23.2024 from Inseverability
Prayer is not a movement from ourself towards God.
It is a divesting of ourself of all the qualities
we seem to have acquired from experience,
and the subsequent revelation
of our being as God’s infinite being.⁵
— Rupert Spira
posted 11.22.2024 from Non-dual Prayer in Vedic Science
The apparent evil and imperfection
of the universe is not evil and imperfection,
but imperfect apprehension…
on the same level as the belief
in witches and devils
will go the way of all superstitions.¹
— John Scott Haldane
posted 11.20.2024 from Perfection
Why is there that urge to achieve,
and the feeling that it is right to have it all?
Because Health, Comfort, Joy, and Good
are the nature of that which is—
the nature of Reality.¹
— attributed to Margaret Laird
posted 11.19.2024 from Achievement
There is wisdom
that you can't find by seeking,
but only those who seek find it.⁴
— Abu-Yazid Al-Bistami
That for which we long above all else
cannot be found by seeking,
yet only those who seek find it.⁵
— Rupert Spira referencing Abu-Yazid Al-Bistami
God can never be found by seeking,
yet only seekers find God.⁶
— Abu-Yazid Al-Bistami
posted 11.18.2024 from Wisdom
Matter is a way of seeing,
not something that is seen.¹¹
— Rupert Spira
posted 11.17.2024 from 3 Pillars of Conscious Spiritual Living
In consciousness, there is no other.¹
— Dr. Tony Nader
posted 11.16.2024 from Foundation, Who Is My Other?
and 3 Pillars of Conscious Spiritual Living
No one can tell you what is Truth.
Truth is revealed
in the innerness of consciousness.²
Truth is its own revelator.³
— Margaret Laird
posted on 11.15.2024 from Truth
Enter into [the Lord's] sanctuary,
which [the Lord] hath sanctified for ever...
— II Chronicles 30:8 JPS
posted on 11.14.2024 from The Science of Silence and Torah Science
We pray with words
until the words are cut off
and we are left in a state of wonder.¹⁵
— St. Isaac the Syrian
posted 11.11.2024 from Non-dual Prayer in Early Christianity
Prayer on the verbal level
has its effectiveness;
prayer on the mental level is more effective;
prayer from the transcendental area of life
has maximum effectiveness,
because on that level
thought has a frictionless flow—
it travels instantly throughout Nature…
[Transcendental prayer] is instantly heard
and instantly responded [to]…²
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
posted 11.10.2024 from Non-dual Prayer in Vedic Science
We have declared
an omnipresent God long enough—
the time is here for us to prove
this Omnipresence.
Tennyson wrote, ‘Closer is God than breathing,
and nearer than hands and feet.’
Can you conceive of God being any closer
than the discovery that
divine Mind is your own Consciousness? ⁸
— Vivian May Williams
(italics is in the original)
posted 11.09.2024 from Conscious Identity of Being
[Suffering] is not the absence of [God] Soul.
It is the absence
of the consciousness of Soul.¹
— Richard Booker
posted 11.08.2024 from The New Golden Rule
and Soul
Dualistic binary thinking is transcended
in the metaphysical standpoint
as knowing and being become one.²
— Muhammad Maroof Shah
posted 11.07.2024 from Non-dual Prayer in Sufi Science
and Non-dual Prayer Overview
