A woman once came to Mahatma Gandhi with her little boy. She asked, “Mahatma-ji, tell my little boy to stop eating sugar.” “Come back in three days,”… - Ram Dass

woman once came to Gandhi with her young son. “Mahatma-ji, tell my son to stop eating sugar. It’s not good for him.” Gandhi told her to return with her son in a week’s time. When they returned, Gandhi said to the boy, “Stop eating sugar.” The woman was perplexed and asked Gandhi why he couldn’t have told the boy that a week earlier. Gandhi replied, “Because at that time I had not given up sugar.” What

When you experience fear or are unsure about your situation, there’s a beautiful and very powerful mantra you can say: “The power of God is within me. The grace of God surrounds me.” Repeat it to yourself or to a loved one in need. It will protect you. Experience the power of it. It’s like a solid steel shaft that goes through the top of your head right down to the base of your being. Grace will surround you like a force field.

Part of the process of awakening is recognizing that the realities we thought were absolute are only relative. All you have to do is shift from one reality to another once, and your attachment to what you thought was real starts to collapse. Once the seed of awakening sprouts in you, there’s no choice — there’s no turning back.

Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?