Month: August 2019

“The purpose of human existence is to transcend human existence. Not to do any of the ultimately engineered things that human beings get it in mind to do from the conventional egoic point of view.

Yes, while we live there are all kinds of conventional fulfillments and functional relations and so forth. All of that is fine and none of that has any power to prevent or qualify this ultimate realization. The force of all that is dissolved by that ultimate realization and conventions of life go on. There’s a lot of transforming of it perhaps. A lot of release of energy within it.

It becomes free because it no longer has that interior self idea that everybody is walking around with.”  – Adi Da

“All this does not deny us the right to enjoy life. It does not take away authentic feelings of delight. It does just the opposite. By not depending upon fleeting pleasures, we find lasting ones. No one and no circumstance can ever take away this inner gladness.

As a matter of fact, people are much too serious. They mistakenly think that seriousness somehow indicates earnestness. Even their playtime is grim, just as if it is something they must do. Have you noticed the strange compulsion lurking beneath many so-called recreations? This playtime is heavy, not springing spontaneously from a free spirit, but from a burdensome sense of duty.

We think we are somebodies who have a duty to keep our lives on the go. What a dreadful idea. In reality, we are blithe spirits who must learn to play as such. With this special kind of purposelessness, we find real delight and lasting meaning in life. Genuine mystics are not afraid to be playful and twinkle-eyed men.”

  – Vernon Howard, The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power, p. 162