"The transformation doesn’t begin with the institution. We don’t organize to transform the universe. We don’t get a God squad together to do it. We start with the individual human heart. We start right here inside ourselves."

-Ram Dass

“It is good if somebody abuses you, good in a spiritual way also. A person progresses if someone abuses him. Don’t be worried. A day will come when this man will come and bow his head before you.”-Neem Karoli Baba

“The only thing you have to offer to another human being is your own state of being.”

-Ram Dass

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And it has brought us exactly where we are today.

Reading any spiritual text is good but if it is only reading to make us feel righteous and better than those who haven’t read them it is useless. Every scripture and saint story is worth nothing if reading it inspires no real inner change. Tools are useless unless we pick them up and use them.

Driving into a pink sunrise listening to Jahnavi Harrison’s beautiful Divine Maha Mantra and I feel flooded with joy and gratitude.

#jahnaviharrison
#mahamantra
#harekrishna
#gratitude

Breaking my time away from social media just to announce this bittersweet moment. I’m becoming a grandfather today. What joy! But my son (the father) hasn’t spoken to me in ten years. Still just rejoicing that my grandson is about to be on this earth.

I love interacting with you all but for the sake of my soul I’m taking some time off from social media. Bluesky has been my best online place but I need a break even here. Maybe just the rest of the month but I’ll reassess then. May you all be happy, well and safe. Much love.

More fitting for my present moment than you can know.

Six years ago today Ram Dass (formerly Dr. Richard Alpert) left his body. I feel so much gratitude for him, his journey and all her taught us.

"Meditate like Christ. He lost himself in love." - Neem Karoli Baba (Maharaji)

The present emotions are not attacking you, my love.

It’s all just interpretations of your mind.

You are divinely protected.

See that.

See beauty in everything. The morning sun slipping in to brighten my day.

You are an ocean of inestimable depth and worth.

Why live as though merely this confining container of flesh and bone?

You are the Universe.

Today, live as ever-expanding wisdom, love and strength.

This is you.

I think of this often. We are so lost in our phones that we have lost touch with one another. We numb our deepest hearts rather than sharing them with each other. Ultimately, this is a loss of our very humanity.

If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds. Such change cannot be imposed; it must come from within.
― Nisargadatta (in I Am That)

“Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible”
- Carl G Jung

“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.”
-Thomas Merton

“When you are spontaneous and aligned to the Nature, then mistakes do not happen.”
-Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party, and I attended with my real face."
- Franz Kafka

I exist
as I am, that is
enough.
-Walt
Whitman

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it.
Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
RamDass

"Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind."
-Amma

"The benefits of meditation are never lost. They will always remain with you, ready to bear fruit at the right time."
-Amma

“I know more than I understand. I’m intellectually ahead of where I am intuitively; I can say all the things, but I’m not yet fully being them. Inevitably, I’ve got to be them, there’s no choice.”
-Ram Dass

Grass with sand and Coastal plants in foreground. A beach at low tide. A cliff and trees in background with a grey clouds. Photo Fisherman’s Beach Torquay 19.012.2025

“If your mind doesn't go out to disturb the noise, the noise won't disturb you.
-Ajahn Chan-

"One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange thing that happens happen, let us see!' This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things."
- Ramana Maharshi

Once we begin to see encounter the true Self it becomes so much easier to laugh at the ego body. I just teared up listening to Rocky Mountain High in the car. Must’ve looked nuts both laughing and crying as I drove home. I love this adventure of Self discovery.

Learned an amazing acronym yesterday. For those of you who also battle with shame this may hit home:

Should
Have
Already
Mastered
Everything

I’m really going to try to think of this each time I feel shame over all the many things I feel it over.

Credit Anne Lamott’s forward in There is No Othe

Please take no offense. We are all just feeling out this incarnation out through our own eyes. My journey is no more valid or “correct” than yours. We are all walking each other home.