At The Center Of The Religious Life

Imagine A Man Besottedly In Love: He Won't Waste Time Speculating Whether Other Women Equally Merit His Affection.

Walnuts Have A Shell, And They Have A Kernel. Religions Are The Same. They Have An Essence, But Then They Have A Protective Coating. This Is Not The Only Way To Put It. But It's My Way. So The Kernels Are The Same. However, The Shells Are Different.

...yesterday And Today And Tomorrow Are Not An Arrow That Shoots From Past To Present To Future; Rather All Tenses, And Sleeping And Waking, Mix And Cohabit In An Atemporal Duration Beyond Clocks And Calendars. The Aboriginal World Began Long Ago When The Ancestors Sang In Dreamtime The Cosmic Rhythms That Give Shape To The Things We See, And It Is The Beginning Right Now, When A Living Tiwi Sings The Dream Songs That Continue, Or Are, The World.

When Historians Look Back On Our Century, They May Remember It Most, Not For Space Travel Or The Release Of Nuclear Energy, But As The Time When The Peoples Of The World First Came To Take One Another Seriously.

Swami Ashokananda Was A Brilliant And Accomplished Spiritual Teacher In The West.