Purifying the mind

Sometimes I will invite a client to stand at the window of my office and watch the movement of traffic in the street below. We are not interested in where these vehicles have come from or who is driving them. We are just watching. Later on, the client can apply the same divine disinterest to the movement of his thoughts. Thoughts can survive anything except our indifference. Indifference is what purifies the mind.

Inside the squirrel cage

All of our suffering is self-created. This means that we use the mind to create difficulties where difficulties do not exist. Then we use the mind to try and alleviate the difficulties that the mind itself has created. Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is clearly nuts. No problem can be solved at the same level of consciousness that created the problem.

Piercing the veil

Ego, succinctly: The voice in the head that never shuts up. “To finally know divinity as our own consciousness and being, we need only understand that it’s our nonstop thinking that obscures the direct experience of God.”

Man as overstatement

Man is a three-brained animal. He has a head for mentation, a heart for intuition and a gut for movement and sex. Rarely are these three centres of intelligence held in perfect equilibrium.