The essence of spiritual practice is a search for truth that springs from love.
The great materialistic progress which we have venerated for so long is on the verge of bankruptcy. We can no longer believe that we are born into this world to accumulate wealth and abandon ourselves to mortal pleasures. We see the dangers and realize that we have been exploited for centuries. We were told the twentieth century was the most progressive that the world has ever known, but unfortunately the progression was in the direction of self-destruction.
…perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
I am the father and mother of all things; I plant myself upon my own nature, and create again and again this assemblage of beings; I am generation and dissolution, the place where all things are deposited, and the inexhaustible seed of all nature; I am beginning, the middle and end of all things.