Blog Adventure 2026 - Reaching Enlightenment

A strange thought occurred to me today, harmony is not independent.

"To be, or not to be—that is the question."

— William Shakespeare

Beingness

Being Here and Now.

“The only thing we knew for sure about Henry Porter, was that his name wasn't Henry

Porter”

“If there's an original thought out there, I could use it right now.”

This morning, during my meditation, I found myself saying, All glory to God.

"One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor"

— Paul Simon

A small line that says a lot

I have just been reading a book about the conscience. It suggests that there are two sides to it.

One is our own inner voice, quietly telling us what is right and what is wrong.

It occurred to me that the one and the all is the same.

One of the remarkable things about the human brain is that it can study itself.

This morning, as I went through my usual routine of movement and meditation, a thought quietly appeared: I am a participant in the ceaseless movement of infinite being.

"Dance Me to the End of Love" is one of Leonard Cohen's great songs...

Do we have an inner voice?

Someone described homeostasis as "a dynamic process of standing still."

Breathing is the most natural thing a person can do.

Equilibrium means being in balance.

Rejuvenate is such a beautiful word.

I do not confess myself to any specific religion, but neither am I an atheist.

I am not my senses, I am not my memories, I am peace, I am infinite peace.

Tranquility, peace of mind, inner joy, loving kindness.

By the wellspring of inner relaxation...

I often try to explain...

Today I take a rest, I rest in the moment, allowing what is present to simply be what it is. Namely, presence.

Some time back I made a discovery. At a certain moment, I suddenly realized that the all is one, that it cannot be changed, and that it is loving and caring and permeated by bliss.

The horizon has always fascinated me. No matter how far we walk, it quietly moves ahead of us.

The more I learn about this world...

There is a Swedish saying: "Don't mix apples and pears."

It has nothing to do with fruit salads.

Love and joy belong together.

I have often found myself reflecting on an interesting difference between love and hate.

Many years ago, I ran a lunch restaurant where we served two main dishes each day.

Do the best you can until you know better, then when you know better, do better.

— Maya Angelou

There was a time in my life when I thought every important question had to have an answer.

Today, I'm not so sure.

There is something remarkable about harmony. In music, for instance, when instruments are in tune and voices support one another, no one competes, there are no distractions, and everything simply feels right.

There is an old saying that has puzzled me for quite some time:

"God gives and takes with equal grace."

According to an old Vedic saying, we cannot bring worldly conditions into the realm of the unconditional, but we can bring the unconditional into the world of conditions.

There is an interesting difference between spiritual surrender and surrendering to an enemy.

I love wild roses simply because...

If you look for the positive things in life…

We all know our five senses...

Today, on the International Yoga Day actually, we are travelling to Oslo to meet Ravi Shankar.

“Being good is better than being best.”

The best vitamin for making friends is...

"Growing old has its compensations: all the things you couldn't have when you were young, you no longer want."

— Unknown

Today I decided to make up my mind.

Perhaps a successful day is not a day when everything goes according to plan.

Yesterday I heard an economic expert explain that we are actually doing rather well financially.

I say no more...

Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

Life can be amazing — and life can be amusing.

In yesterday's blog, I published the poem "Invictus." It is said that Nelson Mandela found solace and strength in these words during his imprisonment at Robben Island, where he spent 27 years.

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

There is a universe outside of me

And a universe within

A Whole Other Perspective

I am not perfect and that is quite a relief.

At a time in my youth I felt amazingly free.

When one ponders how this world came to be, sooner or later we end up asking about God.

In Sweden we have a certain word: lagom. Roughly translated, it means “just enough” or “enough for everyone.”

A couple of days ago I had a small conversation with a colleague at work. Somehow the discussion drifted toward eternity, eternal life, and the strange nature of existence itself. I enjoy such conversations, even if one rarely arrives at any final answers.

I am on the plane back home, and that is a great feeling.

I lift my arms to the sky — I close my eyes — and I let the rain wash over me.

When one loves another for a long time, something remarkable may happen.

What is the great human longing? What is it that we truly seek?

The song title He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother expresses something quite beautiful.

Today is another day.

I once saw a documentary about the life and death of John Lennon.

In yesterday’s blog, we heard Niels Bohr say that opposites are complementary. Sri Ravi Shankar, founder of the Art of Living movement, often expresses a similar insight — not as abstract philosophy, but as a way of approaching life itself.

Niels Bohr, one of the pioneers of quantum physics, emphasized that opposites are complementary. At first glance, this may sound abstract, but it also speaks to a deep human dilemma.

Only you can know—no one else can know—that is the mystery

Wisdom is a forgotten word — and perhaps one that needs to be awakened again.

The word spirituality often makes people uneasy. To some, it suggests vague ideas, wishful thinking, or beliefs detached from reality. Yet the human longing to understand what lies beyond immediate perception is anything but new.

“From the echo of meditative awareness, you develop a sense of balance, which is a step towards taking command of your world.”

— Chögyam Trungpa

“Only through affirmation, never through negation, can ultimate goodness be reached.”

— Sri Ramakrishna

“I have a dream that one day we live up to our creed, that all men are created equal.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. was one of those rare individuals who dared to remind the world of its own highest ideals. He spoke not only about political change, but about human dignity, compassion, and the courage to recognize one another as equals.

“Compassion is a verb.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“I long to accomplish one great and noble task, but it is my foremost duty to execute small assignments as if they were great and noble.”

— Helen Keller

“The truth is simple. If it were complicated, everyone would understand it.”

— Walt Whitman

“With eyes closed, asking: Who am I?

With eyes open, asking: How can I be of help?”

— Swami Ranganathananda

“Same, same — but different.”

— Common proverb

“In deep space, the universe engulfs me, reducing me to a pinpoint—but through thought I can understand that universe.”

— Blaise Pascal

“My life is God’s gift to me; what I do with my life is my gift to God.”

— Lina Sandell

“The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.”

— Albert Einstein

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”

— John Lennon

I call myself an ontologist. An ontologist is someone who is interested in understanding the nature of existence. I pose questions such as: Why does existence exist—and why do we exist?

At the Ashram we were invited to relax and to put a smile on our faces. In that place it was easy to smile.

I am an expert in listening to my mind and to my thoughts; I love to try to understand things and also to reveal their hidden meaning.

Last year I went through cardiac treatment. It was both worrying and stressful when one was in its midst. One morning I was on the bus on my way to do a vascular examination, and I admit that there was worry involved. On that bus however, which always seems to be the case with me, I started philosophizing the situation I found myself in.

When I hear a well-read physicist, - cosmologist, - mathematician, as Leonard Susskind saying that the speed of light is not a speed really—then it makes perfect sense to me.

The oldest Hominin grave yet found dates back 240 000 years and consists of a carefully buried child, around three years of age. Our kind, The Homo Sapiens, is of course a much later branch on the Hominin tree, but according to science we are related down the evolutionary path.

The GEO-7 report says that by the year 2050 mankind will draw 165 billion tons of raw material from the earth annually. That is a 60 % increase from 2020. In many respects, that is a pretty grim scenario

If you want others to be happy—show compassion

If you want to be happy yourself—show compassion

-Dalai Lama

Today I am Grateful, not because that everything is perfect, but because I am here.

A thought came to me this morning, it is maybe a bit far-fetched, but nevertheless, here it is: Does the Buddhist vision of Shunyata agree with the Vedic idea of Sat-Chit-Ananda?

I believe in love for two reasons. The first is obvious, simply because I feel it, and also because I can easily detect that everyone else feels it too. And not only feels it, but long for it, and place it before everything else one can ever imagine. If there was but one choice, to love or to hate, everyone without exceptions would have chosen to love.

confirmed.

Scientism is not a commonly used word, yet it points to something quite significant.

I am a child of the seventies. At least in Sweden, solidarity was the guiding ideal of the time. There was a strong belief in living together, sharing our resources, and helping one another — within the community, but also beyond it. It went hand in hand with caring for the environment, living simply, often close to nature. High fashion was not the goal; the ideal was to make use of what one already had.

Opportunism is a subtle thing. It does not stand out in the same way as other -isms, yet it seems to be present almost everywhere.

“Money is the root of all evil,” they say — as Roger Waters famously sang on The Dark Side of the Moon. But is it true? Is money itself the problem?

I laughed when I first heard the term consumerism — not because it’s funny, but because it seemed to capture our times in a single word.

Is AI intelligent? Well, yes — of course it is. It is remarkably intelligent. It can organize information, process knowledge, reason about it, and often anticipate what we are aiming for. It can be polite, respectful — even warm. It can write poetry. It has many impressive abilities. In some ways, it can think like a human being even beyond our own capacity.

To be genuinely sad one must be brave—and to be genuinely brave one must acknowledge the nature of sadness.

Today I will return to Svalbard for another 6-week assignment aboard ship Virgo of Gothenburg.

War is about money, greed, fear and power. What is it that we fear, what is it that we want, what is it that makes us go down the same road again and again?

Can we do something about it, can we make a change? What is our responsibility here? Can we break this vicious cycle of death and destruction?

In the ongoing dispute between Donald Trump and the Pope, JD Vance, Vice President of the United States, recently added that it would be best for the Vatican to concern itself with matters of morality, and to let the President of the United States concern himself with American public policy.

I am worried. We live in a world where greed, fear, and aggression steer our actions and set the agenda. It seems we never learn; we repeat the same behaviors again and again in what appears to be an endless cycle.

Enlightenment—what is that?

The Sufi poet Rumi (1207–1273), also known as Jalal al-Din al-Rumi, is famous to this day for his profound yet eloquent poetic descriptions of what lies beyond our everyday perception of the world. Among many other wise words, he has said: “The language of God is silence; all else is poor translation.”

In yesterday’s blog post, I reflected on the nature of thinking and suggested that we pay more attention to our own thoughts. Later in the day, I found the following text among my saved items, and I felt that it touched on something we often overlook — not how we think, but how rarely we allow space for thought. It comes from an old Native American woman, and it surely displays some of the wisdom for which they are so rightly known.

In Sweden, we have a proverb that goes, “Think of what you say, so that you don’t say what you think.”

When did the seven deadly sins become virtues?

I read this morning that representatives of Russia talked about ending the war in Ukraine through the use of an atomic bomb. Hopefully, this is just another example of loudmouthed political rhetoric. But then again, it is indeed worrying.

This will sound odd to many, but I admired Trump. (Note “admired” in the past tense.) I admired his potential, his boldness, his drive, and his determination. At times, I still do. Some will say yes to that, and some will say no. He does not go unnoticed.

We are facing big problems, and there are certainly reasons to worry. War rages, conflicts are mounting, and diplomacy seems to be a forgotten word. Egoic desires and loudmouthed rhetoric fill the room. It is scary — and what is even worse, it almost seems hopeless, all things considered.

I am not a political person; rather, I am philosophically, or even spiritually, inclined. But now I ask myself: can one refrain from being political in times like this?

The problem is not the evil of evil men, but the silence of the good-hearted.

The Pope seems to have expressed opinions about the way certain state officials in the US have used the name of Jesus to justify acts of war and violence, pointing out that Jesus is an inappropriate promoter of such acts.

The seven layers of human existence:

1.     The Body (Our physical body with all its ongoing activity)

2.     The Mind (In which we experience our sense perceptions)

3.     The Breath (That we cannot live without but which we can learn to control)

4.     The Intellect (The faculty for thought-through decision-making)

5.     The Memory (The library of past experiences from where emotions and thoughts grow)

6.     The Ego (The sense of “I”, that we are individual entities with like and dislikes)

7.     The Self (Our unchanging core, the link between the eternal and the perishable—the soul, if you like)

This weekend, we celebrate Easter — a time when we gather in the comfort of our homes to share a meal and enjoy each other's company. It is a joyful occasion, marking the end of winter and the transition into new beginnings, new growth, and new opportunities.

The human species is curious by nature—we want to know how, where, when, who and why. Is this inquisitiveness a curse or a blessing? Does it lead us into trouble, or is it actually the key to the doors of heaven?

The other day, I mentioned my habit of diving into the deep end when it comes to philosophical reasoning. I also mentioned the strangeness of what is called quantum superpostion.

Does metaphysics indicate spirituality? This is a both problematic and intriguing question.

In order to be relaxed we must put in an effort.

The term yoga means “to unite” — but what is being united?

I am not my thoughts.

Not my body.

Not my memories —

I am bliss, I am infinite bliss.

What is consciousness, can it even be defined? This is a hot question today, a question that is being investigated by scientists, philosopheres, and spirutal seekers alike. In a Vedantic context consciousness is traditionally seen as a fundamental part of reality, being part of the concept called Sat-Chit-Ananda, where Chit stands for consciousness or awareness.

What is reality, - what is existence?

Today was a beautiful day outside — perhaps a bit chilly — but the sun was shining, and the air was fresh and clear. The vegetation has not yet sprung into action, but the birds were already expressing their excitement about the new season ahead.

In yesterday's blog, I concluded that the Buddha's message is that our suffering arises from psychological reasons.

First a brief summary: the Four Noble Truths of the Buddha tells us:

1. We suffer.

2. It is due to our clinging to our desires.

3. There is a remedy.

4. The remedy contains taking action via a prescribed recipe.

The first three Noble Truths tells us that we suffer because we cling to our desires, but there is a remedy—a way out.

The First Noble Truth tells us that "Life is Suffering." The Second Noble Truth explains that suffering arises from the attachements of desire. The Third Noble Truth reveals that suffering can be ended.

The first Noble Truth told us that due to the impermanence of contentment, suffering is unavoidable. Now, the second Noble Truth displays the root-mechanics behind our yearning.

The first of Buddha's Noble Truths is that life is suffering. Why is it suffering? Well, the opposite to suffering is contentment, and contentment is impermanent—it never lasts. This does not sound very exhilarating; rather on the contrary.

The notion that life equates to suffering evokes a sense of despair simply by hearing it. Isn't the Buddha believed to have understood the true nature of life? It cannot be as dreadful as that, can it?

But, well, yes—contentment is impermanent, and that is hard to argue against.

Of course, it is not that every moment of life equals suffering; that much we know from our own personal experience. We all experience love, joy, and satisfaction from time to time—at least temporarily.

And that is the factual point here: the relief from pain, -discontent, -dissatisfaction, -thirst, -hunger, -boredom, -sadness, -and loneliness is temporary, and this underpins the statement that life equals suffering.

Every situation of content inevitably ends—always. This is the very first of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths. It is a kind of grim start—we start at the bottom—but it is only upwards from here.

Through the Four Noble Truths, the Buddha described human bondage, its nature, its causes, its solutions, and the methods necessary to transcend it.

The title "The Buddha" literally means "the awakened one." Awakened from what, one might ask?

What is life really about? Does it have a greater meaning—a meaning that extends beyond our own personal experience of this earthly existence?

Right in the middle between scientific proof and religious belief there is an area that we may call common sense. It is called common sense because it is common to us all, in other words, we all have access to it, we do not need to turn to anyone else for confirmation, we must not trust scientific endeavors or religious doctrines, we know it inside ourselves, we know it through our own inborn knowingness.

In the borderland between intellect and intuition lies an unnamed field of awareness. In the space between what we "know" and what we don't "know," we are somehow addressed—by whom, we cannot say.

We can understand even that which we cannot know. Scientifically we cannot prove the infinite factor—yet we know beyond all doubt that it is real.

Everyone speaks in parables. The Bible and the Bhagavad Gita both explain reality through parables. Even mathematics, in a sense, is a parable—the story of one plus one equaling two, the story of the right-angled triangle, and so forth.

All of these are descriptive parables about the mystery of existence, telling stories about the one and the many.

The one is a simple truth; the many is an ever‑ongoing story that can be described as God, the selves, or even through the language of mathematics.

How can we know what cannot be known? The straightforward answer is that we cannot. However, upon further investigation, this question proves to be more complex than we initially expected.

In Sweden there is this cartoon hero called Bamse. It is aimed at the youngest. Bamse is the strongest bear in the world, but he also has the kindest of hearts. When one is very strong, he says, one must be kind.

There is a natural joy to life. Unfortunately, we often pass it by. Sometimes we even forget it entirely and begin to see our lives as an endless row of meaningless obligations.

Yesterday I saw a short film about Elon Musk's new AI system. Mr Musk had asked the system about the origins of the universe, and had gotten a very unsettling answer.

God is both omnipotent and omniscient. We are not—we have limits. We cannot do everything. But God, being omnipotent, can. We too have powers but only to a certain degree. We have beliefs—some of them are true, and some of them are false.

Before; I did not know; but I did not know, that I did not know.

Now; I know that I don´t know, and somehow that is a step forward.

As we keep evolving our technical devices, shamlessly using them to target one another in a war between "good" and "bad", we risk to blind ourselves from the greater values of being human.

Once upon a time, one of our ancestors posed the question why for the very first time upon this earth.

Just like every detective story—every docu-drama—and every conflict between nations, tries to establish who’s to blame and where—why—and when, the whole shebang started—so does an ontological investigation.

As we try to grasp the physical vs the metaphysical realm, we inevitably reach a point where we must ask ourselves where the boundaries of a personal entity are drawn.

Paradoxes are powerful because they point beyond our everyday awareness. And they may come across as rather hilarious.

We tend to treat common sense in an unfortunate belittling manner. When something is referred to as common sense, it is supposed to be something that everyone should understand and hence it is not given the same status as scholarly knowledge. This is a mistake. The infinity principle holds common sense in high regard, and for the same reasons that it is usually belittled.

The greatest mysteries of the world are obvious and self-evident when we allow ourselves to trust our inner knowingness. Scientific knowledge is highly efficient in so many ways but when it comes to answering the Big Why, common sense holds the upper hand, and thus we should honour and respect it. 

Aristotle 384–322 BC, Greek scientist and philosopher. Yes, he was both!

What is metaphysics? Is it not trying to understand that which is un-understandable? It is funny in a way—the term understanding implies standing under something, and is it not a rather appropriate term to describe the human longing to grasp that which is beyond our physical reach?

What is metaphysics? Scientists using microscopes finds that matter dissolves into tinier and tinier components, finally ending up in almost nothing.

As ontologists we seek to understand the underlying mechanics of our world—not the nature of black holes, for instance, but rather why black holes exist at all.

Ontology asks about the nature of reality—Epistemology asks about the nature of knowledge—Axiology asks about the value behind it all.

Epistemology is the study of knowledge—not just what we know, but how we know what we know.

Now, what is an ontologist—what is even meant by the term ontology? Well, it is neither science nor religion but rather somewhat in between.

The infinity principle tells us that reality at core is positively charged. But why then do we suffer?

The infinity principle states that reality at core is positively charged. A statement that reveals goodness as a logical conclusion built into the funding structure of reality as such.

What is whole; this is whole; what has come out of the whole is also whole. When the whole is taken out of the whole, the whole still remains whole.

We can think about the term "The All" as an axiom. An axiom, basically, is a statement that proves itself—that describes itself—that within itself carries its own full explanation—and thereby is undeniable.

The statement The All is One is a perfect example. The All must be one or it is not the all.

You might have heard about a notion called oneness. It is often used in religious contexts, but it’s found in common language too.

In yesterday’s blog post I raised a question about thinking. We think all the time, habitually and without even being aware of it. Now, what about knowing vs believing?

To me it seems that there is a difference between knowing and understanding. It will of course depend on how we use these terms but I will try to explain.

We don´t need to believe in infinity, that is a cool thing about it. Scientific, religious, philosophical, and spiritual ideas all contains aspects that we must believe in order to integrate them into our understanding. This is not true when it comes to the nature of infinity—when it comes to the infiniteness of reality.  

The infinite factor is the simplest, at the same time strangest, idea you will ever encounter.

Simplest because it is both undeniable and inescapable—strangest because we simply cannot get our heads around it.

In 2019 I was unexpectedly presented with an insight that changed my understanding of this world in one devastating stroke. The insight was simple in absurdum. There were no specifics, no details, no referrals, just one simple truth that explained the lot.

Yesterday I likened reality to a coin, not in the meaning of monetary value, but in the meaning of one single whole having two opposing sides.

Reality can be likened with a coin. A coin has two flip-sides, but it is still only ONE coin.

When we let this coin represent reality, then its two flip-sides represent its two opposing characteristics.

Infinity is not an opinion. It is not a doctrine of choice. Neither is it a scientific theory that eventually may nor may not prove to be right.

The infinite is obvious. What do I mean by that?

Throughout February I am explicitly exploring the concept of infinity, and today I focus on its most basic aspect—namely, infinity as the core principle of reality itself.

Understanding the infinite is key to understanding the nature of reality.

If infinity is truly infinite—how can we know?

Yesterday I promised to reveal a hidden secret about this world. Well, here it is. Hit the read more-button, and read all about it!

It may not sound that special, but it is. One notion that covers the lot.

An unexpected insight made my jaw drop.

When we were young, we wanted to change the world.

Homeostasis is keeping an harmonious balance within our bodies. It is also a constant struggle. Harmony + struggle = Life

The heart is naturally restful, - the mind on the other hand, can either make it or brake it.

Our bodies commits an incredible around the clock balancing-act, - without ever questioning it. It just does what needs to be done, over and over again, an autonomic dance of many facets.

In my book "The Infinity Principle" from 2024, I posed the question: "If robots can achieve our wildest dreams more effectively than ourselves, - what do we need ourselves for?"

There is a lightness to this world, but sometimes it's lost in the stride of the day.

Inertia, lethargy, and withdrawal is contracting, whilst liveliness, curiosity, and joyfulness expands our minds and our bodies.

I am not a religious person in a strict sense but today I send a prayer to the realm above

The Psychology of Man may seem a Big Subject to fit into a small blog-post. But we are psychological creatures, no doubt, so let us talk about it.

I did not know what I was doing when I took my vow and I pledged to step up

A new place in space is taking form. Today I am happy!

The biggest mystery of all has the most natural explanation. It sounds unbelievable, and still it is true.

At the core of every human being curiosity, loving kindness, and invetiveness is found.

The last great invention left to mankind.

"Sometimes I hear, - "don´t be too hard on yourself.

And it's true, - sometimes I am.

I choose to change

A Health Reset

I fold my hands and pray for rain.

Such a beautiful day, sunshine, crispy white snow, pure medicine for a worn out soul!

Yesterday I touched upon a mystery.

This morning my mind was drifting into esoteric spheres

This painting by Carl Ferdinand Sohn (1805-1867) pictures "God the Father Creating the World". This is how the world came to be according to the Bible and other monothestic belief-systems.

What if there were mountains but no valleys, what if 2 plus 2 didn’t equal 4.

What if I didn´t long for hours, what if I was absolutely sure.

The first full moon of the year was magical.

On New Years Eve we had the most beautiful sunset. The sea was amazingly red.

On this second day of the year I allow myself to breath. I look forward to this new year, I anticipate a great year full of promises. Not that I think it be free from hardship or trouble. Our world faces a great deal of issues that seems to go in the wrong direction. There is war, famine, overuse of resources, climate change, sickness, disease, hatred, fear, worry, anxiety, greed, inequality, injustice, violence… On the other hand, I am certain all of these issues can be dealt with, cured, improved, changed for the better. The human species has the ability to learn, to change, to do the right thing, to step down from selfish greed, to look within and make the right decisions, to do things for a better cause, for a loving cause, for a giving and sharing cause. We have the ability to take responsibility, to grow as persons and make this journey right. We can help each other; we can help ourselves and improve our act. We can make a difference, we can grow, both in strength and in gentleness. We can take care of one other and of ourselves and give every new day its rightful charge of good will and openness. Every day is a new opportunity, a new possibility, to get closer to our true inner potential, to our own inner bliss, our own inner loving kindness. And when we do so, we are not only doing it for ourselves, it will reflect in the world around us as well. Let’s challenge ourselves to investigate our motivations, confront our fears, and embrace the unknown. Whether we uncover a grand purpose or simply gain deeper insight into our own existence, we will have embarked on a meaningful journey worth taking. After all, if we do not seek, if we do not boldly move forward, how will we ever know what lies beyond the limits of our current understanding?

Hello everybody! I wish you all a Happy New Year and hereby I bid you welcome to my 2026 daily blogging journey. Did you make any New Years resolutions? I guess you did. It is a rather natural thing to do, - I have certainly made mine. I pledge to make this year a year of self-improvement, and I pledge to show up every day with the intent to be the better version of myself. And what is more, I pledge to share my challenges and discoveries with you all as I go. Very welcome to my 2026 discovery blog!