The Great Mystery
by Hermit Crab

The source of all things in the universe is unknown – we call it the Great Mystery. Before anything ever was, the Great Mystery Is. No time can be applied to the Great Mystery – it is before the past, and it is beyond the future. It is now, but say “The Great Mystery is now” and you have missed it... [More]

Vocation
by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Every being has a definite vocation, and his vocation is the light which illuminates his life. The man who disregards his vocation is a lamp unlit. He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to clear his confusion... [More]

Following Hard After God
by A.W. Tozer

Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which briefly stated means this, that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man. Before a sinful man can think a right thought of God, there must have been a work of enlightenment done within him; imperfect it may be, but a true work nonetheless, and the secret cause of all desiring and seeking and praying which may follow. [More]

Journey of the Heart
by wahiduddin

The ideal of religious experience is to discover the true peace and wonder of who we really are. But unfortunately, we often miss the point of religion, in which case, as Carl Jung once said, “religion becomes a defense against the religious experience”. That is, we are all too often so filled with our own petty opinions and preferences, our thoughts of ‘I’ and ‘me’ and ‘mine’ that we are unable to experience the true glory and wonder of Life. [More]

Collecting and Dividing
by Wayne Ferguson

Any attempt to categorize cross-cultural, spiritually oriented web-sites is problematic, to say the least. All too often, we take things merely at face value. On the one hand, we are apt to ignore as merely strange that which has always seemed strange; while on the other hand, we tend only to see the familiar in that which has always seemed familiar. [More]

The Four Immeasurables
by Buddhist Tradition

How wonderful it would be if all sentient beings were to abide in equanimity,
Free of hatred and attachment!
May they abide in equanimity!
I myself will cause them to abide in equanimity!
Please, guru-Buddha, grant me blessings to be able to do this. [More]