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In this moment, if our inner or outer life is not or has not been turned upside down, we are sleepwalking. We are just imitating some lame spiritual practice that is keeping our status quo. Self-hypnosis and denial can and do take many forms including spirituality. In matters of Self, culture is not our friend. →

An Interview by Wolf Schneider for Munich’s Connection Spirit Magazine, June 2011 There can only be spiritual progress, if we confront our shadow, that part of the Soul which our ego does not want to see and acknowledge. This applies to nations as well as individuals. Iranian-born Abdi Assadi is a ruthless “exposer” of the →

I was seated at a large table at a social gathering recently where the topic turned to spirituality. People began describing their adopted spiritual paths like tourists flashing ID at a border crossing. “I am a Buddhist” was a common one; a couple of Catholics and converts to Judaism were also added to the mix. →

I took a walk today. As I do every workday, at 6:00 AM, four blocks from my apartment to my office. This is like walking in brackish water; the late-night party people are straggling home while the early birds are walking their dogs or jogging to the gym. I feel my feet on the hard →

Nothing you do will change you, for you need no change. You may change your mind or your body, but it is always something external to you that has changed, not yourself. Why bother at all to change? Realize once for all that neither your body nor your mind, nor even your consciousness is yourself →

Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950) has been described as “the whitest spot in a white space” by Carl Jung and “the greatest sage of the twentieth century” by Ken Wilber. The Dalai Lama has said of him that “his spiritual greatness is guiding millions of people”. These descriptions are about a being whose identity as →

“We ripen when we refuse to drift, when striving ceaselessly become a way of life, when dispassion born of insight becomes spontaneous. When the search ‘Who Am I?’ becomes the only thing that matters, when we become a mere torch and the flame all important, it will mean that we are ripening fast. We cannot →