You’re Not Driving
Penumbra said to Shadow:
‘When the Tao moves, you move;
when it stops, you stop.
Don’t you find it depressing
to have no power of your own?’
Shadow said,
‘On the contrary.
With no decisions to make,
my mind is always at ease.
‘All I have to do is follow.
‘You can’t imagine
how much freedom there is
in just going along for the ride.’ ¹
— Stephen Mitchell,
The Second Book of the Tao
[God] performeth the thing that is appointed for me.
— Job 23:14
Yatinam Brahma bhavati sarathi.
On this level [we become
consciously aware that]
Brahma Bhavati Sarati, the Creator,
[is] the charioteer
of our action,
the conductor
of the physical chariot, the body... ²
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
Press Conference December 14, 2005
Vedic Cognition
of the Mechanics of Creation
Let us cease thinking of ourselves
as just the mere reflection
or shining forth of God.
We are more than reflection.
We are what God is;
we are God's ‘isness;’
we are God's being;
we are God's omnipresence,
God's omnipotence,
God's omniscience.
We are divine Mind’s idea
of Itself.
The infinite Wisdom, Intelligence,
Truth and Life that is God
is the same infinite Wisdom,
Intelligence, Truth, and Life
that is the substance
and conscious essence
of Mind’s manifestation... ³
— Martha Wilcox
Association Address 1943
The fact that all created things
seem to have
existence and being
in their own right
is because we can neither
conceive nor see,
with our physical eyes,
the Force of God
which is in
the created world…
There is really nothing
in existence besides God. ⁴
Rabbi Schneur Zalman,
as quoted in
The Wisdom of the Jewish Mystics
…The Sufi God is found in the infinite emptiness, the silence that is experienced in meditation or prayer when one goes deep within the heart, beyond form into the formless.
But also in divine presence manifest throughout the created world—the smallest cricket, the wildest ocean, the most beautiful sunset... ⁵
— Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee,
Mystical Love in Sufism
Understanding
[spiritual vision]
is the line of demarcation
between the real and unreal…
This understanding
is not intellectual,
is not the result
of scholarly attainments;
it is the reality of all things
brought to light. ⁶
— Mary Baker Eddy,
Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures
Waves of the Ocean
[1] Stephen Mitchell, The Second Book of the Tao, (Penguin Publishing Group, 2009), pp. 48-49 AX 7253
[2] Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Vedic Cognition of the Mechanics of Creation, Press Conference December 14, 2005 AX 9480
[3] Martha Wilcox, Association Address 1943, (The Bookmark, 1988), p. 102 AX 6706
[4] Alan Unterman, The Wisdom of the Jewish Mystics, (New Directions, 1976), p. 57 AX 3869
[5] Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Lover and Beloved: Mystical Love in Sufism, https://goldensufi.org/article/lover-and-beloved/ 09.09.2026 AX 9504
[6] Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 505 AX 97
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