When I Read The Upanishads, Which Are

In India There Was A Sense Of Time That Does Not Tick With Modern Clocks, Just As There Is A Knowledge That Is Not Gained Through Science And Empirical Experiments. In The Modern West Knowledge Is Of Objective, Finite Particulars In Historical Time. India Recognizes That Kind Of Useful Information: It Calls It "lower Knowledge." Higher Knowledge (paravidya) Proceeds Differently, Or Rather It Doesn't Proceed At All But Enters History Full-blown On The Morning Of A New Creation.

It Must Have Been Providence That Directed Joel Morwood To Dig In The Right Place, For He Struck A Lode Of Pure Gold, As Wide (comprehensive) As It Is Deep (profound). What He Mined From That Lode Is A Spiritual Treasure.

I Don't Have Any Fear Of Death. I Do, However, Have An Inordinate Fear Of Becoming Dependent On Other People. To Me, That's The Severest Test, Not Death.

Religion Is The Call To Confront Reality; To Master The Self.

The Sufis Say There Are Three Ways To Know Fire - By Hearing It Described, By Seeing It, Or By Being Burned.