There is only one soul. That's why it's called the sole. The soul is rarely visible, like the sole of our feet, but it's the axis connecting us to the Earth and the foundation upon which everything stands....

The secret to experiencing the intense beauty of every-thing is to experience each thing's uniqueness as revealed by our senses; absolutely, as it is, not comparatively. This is easier said than done as our mind automatically distracts us from experiencing the world purely with our senses. Our mind distracts us by referencing a sensuous experience we are experiencing now to other seemingly similar experiences*; comparing something now with something that's passed or idealized. Comparatively, some things look more or less attractive than others; but, experienced absolutely, every-thing is always beautiful if not in all ways; at least it enlivens us. A corollary is that we are distracted from having a purely sensuous experience when we describe or analyze an experience. To keep our experience as purely sensuous, we can only say of each thing that it is what it is whatever it is. However, there is one word that identifies our reaction is wholly sensuous: WOW. The sound of WOW is made by puckering our lips like when we kiss what we love, that to which we connect with as one. WOW is also our reaction upon awakening, when we don't remember who we were yesterday, what we need to later today and everything around us appears as we've never seen it before.   *The etymology of the word "mind" is memory. When we see things through our mind, we don't truly see. We are asleep to reality; only seeing illusions, thoughts and memories  To be awake is to be in the now, to experience the world through our senses....

We connect with each other through our mind and heart. Our heart is clearly the more important of two as we can live without a mind but not without a heart....

Each of us is generally described in terms of nouns and adjectives. But that's not who we are. Nouns and adjectives are static while we are dynamic. We are nothing but an experience. The experience is a play that we write, produce, direct and in which we star. Our individual plays overlaps with the plays of others as we play roles in their plays and they play roles in ours. Some plays are well-attended by the gods in the audience, while others not. With little audience interest in our individual play, we find ourselves better financially rewarded spending our time playing roles in other people's plays than in ours. In doing so, we abandon our plays and the freedoms they allows us. At that point we are nothing, just nouns and adjectives. However, when we love those who have even very minor roles in our play and treat them like special guest stars, maybe one day they will be; and, if not, at least they'll enjoy their roles more than otherwise....

"Om" and "oh" are the sounds before words were born. "Om" is the incantation at the beginning and end of chapters in the Hindu scriptures, the Vedas and Upanishads. It is the sound made in ceremonies relating to the rites of passage such as weddings and during meditative and spiritual activities like yoga. It is the sound of the universe that's meant to encompass all sounds; the sound attesting to our consciousness; the sound recognizing the divine. Likewise, "oh" is a sound used to express our awakening, our immediate emotional reaction to something to which we have just been made aware. The expression "Oh my God" is the most common expression heard at the moment of orgasm. In this context, "oh my God" means one is awakened to one's oneness with God; one's oneness with the universe before the beginning of time and as nothing becomes everything: the Big Bang. As "Om" is an incantation that's chanted as "Ommmmmmmmmm," "oh my God" seems more consistent with the pace of approaching sexual climax than "Ommmmmmmmmm my God."...

Peace is when we are one with everything. The time before birth. The time after death. The time between falling asleep and awakening. The time between exhale and inhale. The time when there is only one thing, nothingness The time before nothingness becomes everything. Awakening is the realization we are always one with everything but for the time of our self-consciousness when we are oblivious of nothingness....

Each of us has a soul. But there is only one soul. The face of the soul is the face of God. Invisible. Our mind masks the face of our soul. Our mind has an infinite number of faces. Fearing the nothingness beneath our mask, few dare remove it. But only then can we see the face of God....

Our mind sees through our ears. When we see through our mind, we are blind to our blindness. Our mind cannot see. It envisions the world through the stories, meanings, generalizations, etc. it hears as we are socialized. When we in turn see through our mind, we don't see what our eyes see and are blind to our blindness. For example, when a good friend tells us of a super-hot sex experience he had the previous night with a girl he picked up at a bar, we're happy for him; until we realize the girl was our wife....

We suffer when we desire what we don't essentially need as desires preclude us from appreciating what we have. Those who so suffer are fools, funny to everyone but themselves and other fools....