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 →