Most of us spend our lives convinced that there's something missing: "If only I had a bigger barbecue, more money, a bigger car, a different wife, a different.... If only I could upgrade somehow, then I would be okay."
Arjuna ArdaghI think the myths are keeping us limited to, and tied to, what I would call the hyper-masculine tradition. All the major religions in the world have been founded by men and propagated by men.
Arjuna ArdaghAwakening is usually precipitated by the honest, sincere, inquiry into who you really are.
Arjuna ArdaghI enjoy spending time with other awakened people and feeling the shared vibration of that, whereas just fun for its own sake might no longer be quite so enticing as it used to be.
Arjuna ArdaghWhenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.
Arjuna ArdaghThe first thing you discover is a kind of emptiness, a silence, a presence which doesn't seem to have content to it, like looking up at a limitless sky. That boundary-less place inside you is your own consciousness, your awareness. When you relax into it, you realize that it's also full - it is everything. You realize this presence is what you really are: Love.
Arjuna Ardagh