I Suddenly Saw That All The Time

God Had Brought Me To My Knees And Made Me Acknowledge My Own Nothingness, And Out Of That Knowledge I Had Been Reborn. I Was No Longer The Centre Of My Life And Therefore I Could See God In Everything.

There Is A Beautiful Expression Of This In The Chandogya Upanishad: 'there Is This City Of Brahman, (that Is The Body), And In This City There Is A Shrine, And In That Shrine There Is A Small Lotus, And In That Lotus There Is A Small Space, (akasa). Now What Exists Within That Small Space, That Is To Be Sought, That Is To Be Understood.' This Is The Great Discovery Of The Upanishads, This Inner Shrine, This Guha, Or Cave Of The Heart, Where The Inner Meaning Of Life, Of All Human Existence, Is To Be Found.

I Had Made Myself The Center Of My Own Existence And Had My Back Turned To God.

Obedience Is Detachment From The Self. This Is The Most Radical Detachment Of All. But What Is The Self? The Self Is The Principle Of Reason And Responsibility In Us. It Is The Root Of Freedom, It Is What Makes Us Men.

I Am Rediscovering The Whole Sexual Dimension Of Life At The Age Of 86, Really. And That Also Means Discovering The Feminine. So The Whole Of This Dimension, Which I Had Been Seeking For A Very Long Time, Is Now Sort Of Opening Itself Up To Me.