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Our attachments makes us suffer. We feel there must be something in this life of us that makes it worthwhile to invest in it. There must be something in it for 'me'. But all the while the process of life is impersonal. It doesn't care much about us, the John and Mary we are, as long as our biologica...

Fundamental principles build up a sort of tension blocking our enlightenment and happiness. It may be compared to risky behavior we are trying to avoid by responding to it with 'I'll never have sex again', or 'Ill never drink again' or 'I'll never eat American hamburgers again'. These fundamental pr...

“The 'Beyond-being' does not refer to a some-thing, since it doesn't posit any-thing. […] It merely indicates that It is 'not that'.” ~Plotinus Enneads V.5.6 11-17~ We cannot say about God that It is 'this or that'. It is not like anything we see or feel with our senses or understand with our mind. ...

We must take heed not to turn 'mind' into the new spiritual Satan of the twenty first century. In many modern books about religion and spirituality 'mind' is set on a par with 'ego' as the psychic entity par excellence obstructing our religious experience. Both 'mind' and 'ego' are believed to make ...

"For, after all the efforts of the soul, it cannot by any exertions of its own actively purify itself so as to be in the slightest degree fit for the divine union of perfection in the love of God, if God Himself does not take it into His own hands and purify it in the fire, dark to the soul." ~ Sain...

When the mind is in pain and suffers, it seeks a solution to get out of its misery. It goes on a quest for happiness. This quest wearies the already weary mind even more. Happiness now becomes so crucial to us that we cannot relax anymore. We are now unable to sleep. We cannot sit still and do nothi...

When we see a circle, we tend to miss its midpoint. We see only the periphery, only the space within the periphery. But the tiny spot whence the circle originated escapes our notice. The same with our self. We see only the periphery: the outside world surrounding our self. We see only the inner spac...

We cannot know our true being. We can only know the manifested objects of our being. Since these objects are impermanent, fleeting, temporal, -both in our mind, as in the the world surrounding us-, no sure knowledge can be found on them, only provisional knowledge, getting as good as it gets. Though...

Note to the admin. This thread contains posts from the writer Jan F. Brouwer. All my posts are contained in this thread with the intent not to overcrowd the board with new threads. The topics of this thread are diverse, but mainly concerned with mysticism, religion, philosophy, science and spiritual...