Dear Reader,
If you’ve arrived here, you may have already traveled many roads seeking self-understanding or relief from physical or emotional pain. Beneath that search often lies something more elusive: a sense of separation from our fundamental source. We feel this unsettledness as a yearning, but what exactly we yearn for is often unclear — to understand the bigger picture, to know our purpose, to find peace with what disturbs us.
We don’t need to look far for that peace. Every moment can bring us into the peace of now, if we’re fully present — because a moment wholly accepted is Truth, and Truth is the ultimate reality. But even a direct experience of awakening, with all its penetrating insight, won’t automatically transform our daily lives if we keep wishing away the moments that disturb us. Our consciousness deepens when we stay with the moment, however painful the sensations — because those sensations are transitory. Meditation, the stilling of body and mind, is one way we come to know this directly.
Usually, when something difficult arrives, our instinct is to want it to go away. But staying with what’s actually happening reveals the fleeting nature of sensation — and often reveals why a particular lesson is on our doorstep. As we gain this self-knowledge, we stop experiencing ourselves as victims of other people or circumstances. We become navigators of our inner and outer world instead. That’s no small shift. If our intention is to understand the reality of existence, we bring Knowledge to our confusion and Truth to our untruths. But knowing Truth isn’t enough — it’s the application of that understanding in daily life that transforms us.
The writings offered here touch many aspects of everyday life, seen through the lens of a larger worldview. Placing our uncertainties in that broader context opens the way for accurate understanding of our true nature to reach us — understanding essential to restoring balance, to seeing rightly.
I welcome comments and queries.
Leatrice Evanne Asher 