Looking up

The human body is 99.999999999 percent empty space. Likewise, the cosmos is 99.999999999 percent empty space. Perhaps you have noticed what happens when we look up, when we notice space. The mind stops.

Our natural state

Where were you before you woke up this morning. Of course, we know where your body was—that speck of a thing lying on a mattress. But where were you?

The first absurdity

The universe has been evolving for 14 billion years. “As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.”

No doubt about it: The first absurdity is anger.

Into the stillness

The mind naturally turns outward. So when someone comes along and says, “The kingdom of heaven is within you,” the mind is, like, “What?” But there it sits: You are not in the universe; the universe is in you.

Perfect

How appears the world to a man whose heart is full of joy?