The Fourth Layer of Consciousness
by Hermit Crab

While the human intellect projects itself as a poor and isolated being, the Mind continues to perform its intermediary function; the direct experience of Pure Consciousness (the Life) in the Universal Mind becomes an indirect projection of the Life within the individual imagination. The resultant effect is a symbolic representation of the Great Mystery... [More]

Just For Today
by Sri Chinmoy

Just for today, I shall pray to God. My prayer is my inner, climbing cry. I know this cry will reach God's Palace. My snow-white prayer will knock at God's Door. God will open His Door and ask me what I need. I shall tell God that I need His infinite Compassion to awaken me from my slumbering life. God will grant my prayer. [More]

The Message and the Messenger
by Hazrat Inayat Khan

It is sometimes asked why, if God is all-pervading, there is need of the special manifestation of a messenger such as Krishna, Buddha, or Jesus. The answer is given in the words of the Bhagavad-Gita where Shri Krishna says, 'When Dharma is hindered, then I am born.' [More]

A Copernican Revolution
by Immanuel Kant

It has hitherto been assumed that our cognition must conform to the objects; but all attempts to ascertain anything about these objects a priori, by means of conceptions, and thus to extend the range of our knowledge, have been rendered abortive by this assumption. [More]

The Serenity Prayer
by Reinhold Niebuhr

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.[More]

Bodhi: The Heart of Love
by Br. Michael Day

Like the wheel has balance and purpose in actions from the unmoving centre, in the same way when our Heart is centred in stillness, in Bodhi, all our actions are life giving and a blessing. [More]