Category Archives: Spirituality

You can’t just command yourself to stop feeling upset. But in any moment, you can change your breathing to make it deeper, slower, quieter, and more regular. 

“Because the psychedelic agent is external to yourself, its use tends to subtly reinforce in you a feeling that you are not enough,” Ram Dass wrote. “Ultimately, of course, at the end of the path you come to realize that you have been Enough all the way along.”

“…one studies, one watches, without the desire to change what is…. The day you attain a posture like that, you will experience a miracle. You will change — effortlessly, correctly.”

This sacred text describes wu wei — “non-doing,” a kind of behavior that is spontaneous, effortless, and selfless.

Imagine that Lao Tzu came back to life and we tried to explain time management and goal setting to him. He might smirk and then say something like this.