The Way to awakening is not to take your self seriously. The way to begin the Way is not to take me seriously....

When the wealthiest and most powerful man in the world, Alexander the Great, asked Diogenes of Sinope what he can do for him, Diogenes replied: "Yes, stand a little out of my sun." . The greatest gift is to escape the self's shadow and connect with the source of all things....

Life is a play; a tragedy for the actors and a comedy for the audience.   A tragedy as every actor eventually is scripted out of the play and dies. A comedy as the actors that their selves seriously. People are the actors and the gods is the audience. We can always choose who we are, actors or gods....

Those who know the soul experience a peaceful death; for when the self and its home (the body) are no longer, they will be one with the Everything. Yet, at their passing, their loved ones will grieve and mourn. Newborns cry as they transition from one with the Everything into finite beings. Yet, those welcoming newborns rejoice. Those peacefully departing and those entering the material world know the joy and peace of oneness with the Everything. Those distracted by daily life are often oblivious of the oneness before and after the material world. They grieve when others leave and rejoice when others arrive. Misery loves company....