"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.

One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher; their suffering is the teacher.

It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state of inner peace, rather than resistance.

That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

◦"At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is

Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha, Lao Tzu, or Jesus, although their teachings were greatly misunderstood, especially when they turned into organized religion. They were the first manifestations of the flowering of human consciousness.