What We Perceive

We’re all living in our own unique worlds created by our perceptions, which are based on our programming. We rarely see what we’re not familiar with or don’t believe is there. Judging, condemning and even hating others for having different beliefs or...

Awareness Verses Thinking

Thinking means using the mind to contemplate something. The more information and experiences we gather, the larger the database we have to categorize and judge. No matter how full our thinking minds are, they’re still biased because of they are based on a...

Refracted Light

Just as the facets of a prism refract light differently, every person sees a unique reflection of the world and projects a unique movie. Though some of us have similar points of view, there’s still an incredibly wide gulf between our individual experiences of...

Awake From Sleep

Many humans believe that life is happening to them. They think the ability to control their experience is beyond their capacity. While it is true that much is beyond our control, we do have power over the most important factor governing our quality of life: our...

The Limitation of Labeling

The mind constantly organizes its perceptions in order to make sense of a complex world. It condenses massive quantities of information into classes and categories. But when we label what we see, we’re projecting what we expect instead of actually...

Pure Awareness

Most of us are so identified with our thinking that we don’t realize where it comes from. By sitting quietly and noticing the gap between our thoughts, we discover that they arise out of a spaciousness within us that is essentially unlimited, pure potential....