Rest here, in the midst of life exactly as it is. It doesn’t need to be more beautiful, deeper, or more meaningful. You don’t need to add anything, no ceremony, no altar, no philosophy. There is nothing you need to change not in yourself, not in the unfolding. Your intimate meeting with this moment is the altar, is the ceremony, is the philosophy come alive. You don’t have to go anywhere. Simply softly sink back into the Self. Everything will effortlessly fall into place. Life — the Self...

There is a moment on the path when we begin to fear that we might lose something precious — ourselves. We come into contact with something — with That — which we experience as infinitely still, empty, and spacious. It is as if we are standing at the edge of an ocean of infinite emptiness, imagining we know what it would be like to let ourselves sink deeper into that silent void. We imagine it as formless, timeless, without a center, without expression. Without fulfillment. Naturally, that...

“What is a common quality in all the women you have spoken to? " I asked a friend who writes a book with conversations with female...