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People are taught to fear god. They are taught to fear everything. It has become such a natural state that no one questions it.
In the yoga of love we learn to love consciousness. Consciousness is existence. It is the very stuff of which life is composed.
Most people are terribly afraid of their own sexuality, and one has to respect another person's sadhana, another person's path.
Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.
When your home is perfect, every plant in place, every piece of furniture suits the space completely - you've completed a task.
If you just develop your psychic ability and don't learn psychic self-defense, you become more sensitive, open, and vulnerable.
You must consider that there is opposition from other human beings and also non-physical forces that don't want you to succeed.
People who want to go to power places all of the time and want to be around powerful people, they don't last long in the study.
If there's no one in your life to love right now, love yourself. A large part of the path of love is learning to love yourself.
Try to have a more expanded sense of that which you are. Feel that you are eternity. There's only goodness. There's only light.
It's amazing to me how many people who profess to be spiritual seekers are self-seekers, and how few of them ever consider God.
There are certain areas that you can move to on the earth that will empower you and there are certain areas that can drain you.
There is a popular conception about karma, and that is that as you sow, so shall you reap. That's only true if you're a farmer.
As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.
There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very talented.
People you are emotionally open to can drain your power level or raise it tremendously, depending on what their intentions are.
If you have power, you might be able to heal a person. You could actually get inside their cell structures and create a change.
Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.
Most enlightened people can do miracles. Some have powers, some don't. Some people who have developed powers aren't enlightened.
The process of eliminating the samskaras and reaching complete enlightenment is very technical, wonderful, and mystical process.
Material success is not something that will bind you, unless you become attached to it, any more than poverty will liberate you.
The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.
Focus your attention on the center of your stomach, in the area of your naval. Feel that this is an area of tremendous strength.
The path is focus. The power of focus is absolutely essential. To stop all thoughts, you have to have tremendous power of focus.
If the tonal predominates, which we see now more in the world, there's no mystery - understanding of consciousness or awareness.
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.
"Don't talk about enlightenment," Buddha would say. He was saying don't talk about the nagual. He'd talk about how to get to it.
When we talk, answer questions, I'm addressing your tonal. I'm teaching you a way or a series of ways of dealing with the world.
Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity.
A person who wants to progress more rapidly and wishes to overcome unhappiness sooner, should try to find an enlightened master.
In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it.
Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.
People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower sorcery.
Stop worrying about tomorrow. Stop thinking about yesterday. Mindfulness is to be here now, in the moment. Focus on this moment.
None of this matters a bit. Yet, of course, it matters at that moment. So we try to be mindful of the moment; but it's fleeting.
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.
The obvious answer to money is to have tons of it - simply figure out how to make more money than you really need and go for it.
After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is like.
Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process.
We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality.
Meditate on enlightenment. Read the exploits of the great teachers, the great saints. They'll inspire you. Their power is there.
A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.
All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the dream.
Anything you can say, think, feel, trust or feel is untrue - is an illusion. The fact that there are these things is an illusion.
When you focus on the third chakra it has to pull the kundalini from the root center, through the second, up to the third chakra.
The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists.
In different lifetimes, you incarnate in different dimensional planes, let alone in different universes in the physical universe.
Meditating everyday is essential. If you meditate every day and learn to control and stop your thoughts, you will become psychic.
Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case.
So in the path of love - rather than pulling our willpower together, using our discrimination, or working - we just cry inwardly.