Know the Self within and go beyond all sorrow.
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

When all hostility, fear, and insecurity are erased, pure joy remains.

The long journey of spiritual seeking leads to that state. It’s at the very center of consciousness, “the peace that passeth all understanding,” that resolves all conflicts, fulfills all desires, and banishes all fear.

Spiritual disciplines enable us to return to this native state of being – not after death but here and now. Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language, and the practices they follow lead to the same goal.