Lore of the wise says that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear, and when the student is truly ready, the teacher will disappear. Wit of the self wonders if the teacher neither …
Veiled Awareness
Pure awareness is not the same as regular old consciousness. When science uses the term consciousness, it refers to the simple biological awareness of one’s own existence, the ability of our mind to interpret the …
Being Aware of Being Aware by Rupert Spira
How many more spiritually-inclined, in-your-face, can’t-get-any-clearer-than-this kind of books does one need to drive the message home? Apparently, one more. The hazy contours of spirituality may in many ways stand in contrast to the sharp-cut …
Beyond Thoughts
There are a handful of women in this world, who due to a mutation in their X chromosome, have four classes of cone cells in their eyes (tetrachromats) instead of the evolution-intended three (trichromats). Having …
The Rumble Beneath the Silence
Almost every one of us maintains a list of go-to music that will forever be our dopamine dearest, some for reasons quite obvious and others for reasons that words have a lesser capacity for. If …
A Chasm Between the Now and the Next
Some of the most effortless and straightforward phrases in the spiritual world like “mindfulness”, “being present in the moment” or “now” ironically also happen to be the most inflated and hard-to-accomplish ones that are easier …