spiritual awakening and enlightenment in today’s world

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Archive for October, 2007

National What-Writing Month?

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted in My Life, Seen on the Web | 5 Comments »

I learned recently that National Novel Writing Month is upon us. Every November, thousands sign up publicly for the challenge of writing a short novel, (or at least 50,000 words of a longer one) at nanowrimo.org. The challenge is inspiring, ...

Tien, and a few other notes

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 Posted in Books, Mind, My Life | 4 Comments »

I'm reading my first novel in Esperanto, now, a book called Tien, by Claude Piron, under the pseudonym "Johano Valano." It's ostensibly a science-fiction story, but really it's about spiritual transformation... really surprising how some of the (co)incidences are lining ...

A subtle lesson

Monday, October 15th, 2007 Posted in Mind, My Life, Nonduality | 9 Comments »

Sometimes the difficulty of blogging is that what seems blog-worthy is so subtle, it's very difficult to express. That's what's been going on with me, recently. Nothing big, dramatic, or exciting. Subtle things. For instance, I had an experience recently with ...