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More men will continue to attain enlightenment than women, unless women change their use of the second attention.
There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.
If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.
To be psychic is to see without the senses and to keep the thoughts and emotions of others out of your awareness.
If you act impetuously, it will be uncertain, and you'll know it. It just won't feel right. It is better to wait.
You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.
To practice jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge and discrimination, it's necessary to have a highly developed mind.
It is possible to contact higher beings who are not in the body. But the being you really want to contact is you.
When you start to meditate, if you stick with it, you will see tremendous changes in your life and state of mind.
It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself.
In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.
Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in.
Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.
Happiness does not mean that everything works out. Usually nothing works out, but you get a kick out of it anyway.
There is enough room in eternity for everyone to be enlightened. We gain or lose nothing by the success of others.
You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way.
It is the teacher's job to point out mistakes so that an individual doesn't continue to hurt themselves or others.
When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.
The art of spirituality is learning to be happy in any condition and in any circumstance. This is the art of love.
When there's no difference, there's no time, no world, no separativity - and there's no you ... nor is there an I.
The essence of all reincarnation is to have the best lifetime now that you've ever had, no matter what's going on.
It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal.
Chaotic mathematics is essentially the study of chaos. It can't be chaos, if you can study it and it has an order.
I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.
Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist.
The mystical kundalini is something that I normally use when we're on field trips, when we go to a place of power.
The Jews didn't like him because he threatened their religion. He was saying things that didn't go with the order.
To perfect your nature means to let go of this world and place your attention fully in the plane of enlightenment.
Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings.
Human beings actually have quite a bit of willpower. They don't know too much about it, but they have quite a bit.
Your journey is to see how deeply you can interface your mind with infinity. That's the journey of a monk - to see.
When your spirit is free and your body is well developed, magic occurs. You are able to let go and become the play.
To go within doesn't mean to become enraptured with who you are, or to become enraptured with ideas of who you are.
Don't follow the crowd. The crowd doesn't get there. They just run round and around in a crazy race. It never ends.
Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.
Our sense of being worthwhile, our sense of being good, our sense of being anything must go - Final clearance sale.
You could go through incarnations forever and never become enlightened, unless of course you do something about it.
Grow up. Get a life. Life is pain. Anybody who tells you something other than that is trying to sell you something.
There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous.
As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works together.
You need to shelter yourself from the abrasive forces of life that drain you and keep you in a lower state of mind.
There's no place to go. There's nothing to attain. There's nothing to be reached. Love itself is all that you want.
The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.
I offer you the possibilities of immortality, a pathway that leads beyond the known and the unknown, few follow it.
When you do something half-heartedly, you don't get much of a result. When you do it fully, you get a great result.
What we do outwardly will only interrupt the flow of our perfect attention is it is not in harmony with the dharma.
Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.
There are many great bands of perception in the universe. There are both organic and inorganic bands of perception.
You and I might define a 'soul mate' differently. For most people, a soul mate has some kind of sexual connotation.
Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.