You’ve Got Enlightenment All Backwards...

In a magazine article, I found a question like this one: “How can we maintain inner stillness while our lives are filled with stress?” That seems like a great question. But if you ask this question, then you’ve got it all backwards. It’s not that you maintain stillness. Stillness maintains you. As it says in Answers From Silence, “This permanent dimension does not depend on you. But you depend on it.” You know...

Your Mistaken Identity...

Yes, I am on Facebook. But I had what you might call a bit of an identity crisis when I went to create my profile there. The crisis was that my identity isn’t defined by activities, interests, music, movies, books, television, political views, religious views, and what I’m looking for. Therefore, I didn’t fill in any of those blanks. It seemed like such a diminishment. It seemed like such a misplaced idea of what...