The Absolute is infinite, unbounded, and eternal.  Through meditation you rest into that level every day.  ”Coming back” into relativity can feel quite confining. In relativity there are laws of nature to respect.  There are limitations, rules, and regulations.  However, by going back and forth between meditation and activity, over time, unboundedness and boundedness become seamlessly integrated.  Unboundedness flows through relativity.

The inclination may be to feel negative toward the world and other people.  You do not want to have to ‘paint within the lines’ or conform to policies or regulations. These can be experienced as that which is in your way – imposing limitation upon your otherwise exquisite life.

If allowed to do so, relativity is avoided to the point that rarification takes over.  You may feel like you are right, above all else, and nearly enlightened.  But enlightenment means integration.  I have seen people who have gone that route.  It is not a pretty sight.  They are clearly disconnected from the world and reality. Their head is in the clouds.

The more you meditate, the more you need to engage in activity to integrate it.  That is why we structure activity into the ashram program.  You cannot meditate your way to enlightenment.  You need to integrate existence within you.  I do understand that there is a common tendency to sit around and rarify between meditations.  But to go that direction would be most unwise.

 A visionary is not one who just sees the pure, clean, self-evident truth.  A visionary is one who commits to that truth and follows wherever it leads.

Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “The time is always right to do the right thing.”

This is not complicated. The question is not whether you can see the horizon.  The question is: Are you willing to steadfastly go where it leads?

Dr King also said, “If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”

I would also suggest, “If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t alive.”

Furthermore I would suggest, “If a man hasn’t died, he isn’t alive.”

Death here is not the physical kind.

The only true life comes from the death of death…  the death of the life of pettiness, of smallness, of pride, of fear, of what some refer to as the ego or small self.  This is attained through commitment to following what you see in the horizon.

I implore you to live.

It has touched my heart through the years to see how beautifully children take to Valentines Day.

The key to life is good orchestration.  If you are not a good orchestrator, life will not work out so well for you.

All the pieces of the puzzle are right in front of you.  Are you orchestrating them masterfully?

Imagine a world where all people are masterful orchestrators.

This is certainly valid on the surface of life, yet true orchestration happens at the depth of your being, not the surface.  And it may not be how you think it should look, not only regarding others, but even for yourself.

Get the depth right, and the surface will take care of itself. Focus on the depth.  No depth, no chance.

You cannot build a solid house with no foundation.

There is an ancient legend. God decided to create the universe. He made the galaxies and the Earth with its oceans, mountains, forests and streams. He created us, so we could enjoy his creation.

However, when we came here and took a look around we decided that we would rather just be back in Heaven with God and simply left this creation and returned to him.

Well, at first God was disappointed and thought: “What can I do to keep man away from Heaven so that he can explore all the wonders of my creation? If I make a ‘key to life’ they will find it. If I put it at the top of the highest mountain they will climb up there and get it. If I put the key at the bottom of the ocean, they will devise a way to get down there to get it.”

Then God had an idea that delighted him; he thought: “I will hide the ‘key to life’ in the very last place that anyone will look—in the depth of their own heart!” And do you know what?…. It worked.

We go all around the world looking for truth and fulfillment. We create great melodramas for ourselves. We get PhD’s. We build empires. We go on spiritual quests and crusades. We find other people that we look up to for the answers. The last place we look is inside ourselves!

The key to life is alive and well—inside of you. You can find it!

Introduction to Consciousness Unfolding, by Michael Mamas

If you could just apply both of the following quotes to spirituality and live your life in that context, you would get enlightened very quickly.

“We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”  – Winston Churchill

“You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.” – Norman Schwarzkopf

Truth is all around you. Only the wise person knows it when they hear it.  But only the enlightened live their life from that place.

Great quotes are simply not heard by the many.  The wise can feel those quotes resonate with the Divine deep within. The enlightened spontaneously live their life accordingly.

Even the wise are baffled by the behavior of an enlightened one.  It is one thing to feel the touch of the paradoxicle, it is quite another to live from that place.

As you evolve, you help the world evolve.  As you help the world evolve, you evolve. You cannot measure the degree to which you are helping others with a superficial measuring device.  If you could, you would immediately stop living for your self as you know it and begin living for the world as you currently do not know it. You cannot move in the direction of enlightenment without abandoning your conditioned self to a proportionate degree.  Your evolutionary rate cannot be measured by your current conditioning, it is measured by that which lies deeper within you. It is something you can feel, but do not awaken to until you are enlightened.

Do you want to get enlightened?  Look beyond the horizon of your current thinking. Feel the place inside that resonates with wise quotes and devote yourself to that, wherever it may lead. Do not think with your conditioned mind. Look beyond the horizon.